[Archivesspace_Users_Group] A plugin to support bulk uploading of Archival Objects via Excel Spreadsheet

2017-07-14 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Library Technology Services, which supports the Harvard Library, is pleased to announce the availability of a new plugin, aspace-import-excel, available on GitHub at https://github.com/harvard-library/aspace-import-excel . Using the provided spreadsheet template, users can go to a Resource, and

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] A plugin to support bulk uploading of Archival Objects via Excel Spreadsheet

2017-07-14 Thread Fox, Bobbi
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Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] bulk uploading of Archival Objects via Excel Spreadsheet- how large is too large?

2017-09-28 Thread Fox, Bobbi
ing how many rows the system can handle processing in one spreadsheet? [Archivesspace_Users_Group] A plugin to support bulk uploading of Archival Objects via Excel Spreadsheet Fox, Bobbi bobbi_fox at harvard.edu <mailto:archivesspace_users_group%40lyralists.lyrasis.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BArchivesspace

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Running the (development) PUI on a separate server?

2017-09-29 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Hi, I'm working on customizing the PUI for our institution, working in development mode, and, rather than cloning off our humongous, takes-2+-days to index database (which I need to do, because my "product owner" is a committee made up of picky(yeah, that's redundant) Archivists :-) , I was hop

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Running the (development) PUI on a separate server?

2017-10-02 Thread Fox, Bobbi
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[Archivesspace_Users_Group] batch re-ordering of controlled value lists; script/plugin, anyone?

2017-10-18 Thread Fox, Bobbi
In the course of adapting ArchivesSpace to Harvard's needs, we've ended up with some very weedy controlled values lists (extent type > 200 values! -- of course, some of them need to be removed) with arbitrary positioning. Our support team is tasked with the job of wrangling the lists with a def

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] New version of A plugin to support bulk uploading of Archival Objects via Excel Spreadsheet

2017-10-26 Thread Fox, Bobbi
planning to use) the "Restrictions Apply?" flag, please download and install this Release. Cheers, Bobbi Fox, Maintainer Library Technology Services Harvard University From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] digital object identifier/use of 'digital object'

2017-11-27 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Hi, Elizabeth, I can only answer the second question: at Harvard, we are replacing 'Digital Object' with 'Digital Material' (we also changed the color to green, but we've done some heavy styling changes). Hth, Bobbi From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archi

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] New version of aspace-import-excel, a plugin to support bulk loading of Archival Objects

2017-12-15 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Good morning, This message is for those using, or thinking of using, Harvard's aspace-import-excel, that adds and/or inserts a set of Archival Objects from an Excel Spreadsheet. I'm announcing Version v1.7.1 (Downloadable as a zip at https://github.com/harvard-library/aspace-import-excel/arch

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Overriding/Extending the new public interface in 2.2.0

2017-12-21 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Hi, Patrick, I'm having to do a lot of extending/overriding of controllers & methods in our new public interface. You are correct; you can't just override by placing your modified controller in the path location; instead, what *I'm* doing (and I know there's a more elegant way of doing it); is

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace spreadsheet import plugin

2018-01-16 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Hi! As the developer: I don’t wrap the pry in the group development block, because when one of you kind remote users of this plugin has a problem, it might be helpful to refer to the log where unexpected errors get dumped via Pry::ColorPrinter In terms of the gemfile dependency issues, I thou

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Overriding/Extending the new public interface in 2.2.0

2018-01-30 Thread Fox, Bobbi
ministrator Keystone Library Network Hub From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> on behalf of Fox,

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] New PUI's "Collection Organization" tab -- dealing with the "scroll bar"

2018-02-08 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Good morning, As we continue to work on refining Harvard's version of the PUI, I'm somewhat stymied by the "scroll bar" on the right side of the Collection Organization presentation. In Chrome, it actually functions as a scroll bar; however, in FireFox, it doesn't seem to, and there also doesn

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] plugin for importing new digital objects (from a csv file) in archivesspace?

2018-02-15 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Hi, Amanda, The next version of my spreadsheet ingest plugin may be able to help you out (I need to finish the user docs before releasing/announcing); I'm a code4lib this week; please ping me directly next week. Cheers, Bobbi From: archivesspace_users_group-

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Rails help for font-awesome classes ?

2018-02-21 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Hi, Since I’m the one (for my sins) who implemented the use of Font Awesome icons (https://fontawesome.com) in the PUI, I did a little digging. FontAwesome has both changed what they make available as a free icon, and also is deprecating some of their class names. ‘fa-file-image-o’ produced a

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Rails help for font-awesome classes ?

2018-02-21 Thread Fox, Bobbi
-use/upgrading-from-4#v4-shim. hth, Bobbi From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Fox, Bobbi Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 10:49 AM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Rails help for font-awesome classes ?

2018-02-21 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Group Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Rails help for font-awesome classes ? Thank you, Bobbi. This one had me scratching my head. I hate finding surprises moving changes from test to production. — Steve. On Feb 21, 2018, at 10:49 AM, Fox, Bobbi mailto:bobbi_...@harvard.edu>>

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Rails help for font-awesome classes ?

2018-02-21 Thread Fox, Bobbi
-sass-4.7.0/ Development gems, downloaded via ./build/run bootstrap: build/gems/gems/font-awesome-sass-5.0.6.2/ — Steve. On Feb 21, 2018, at 11:08 AM, Fox, Bobbi mailto:bobbi_...@harvard.edu>> wrote: Hey, Steve, B

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Configuration question for 2.3.0

2018-02-22 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Hi, Replace {repo_code} with the lowercased version of your repository code (for example, for us, the repository code for Harvard University Archives is 'hua') You have to do it as a hash AppConfig[:pui_repos] = {'psa' => { :requests_permitted_for_types => [:archival_object]} } Among other thi

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] V2.3.1: Did we lose the resource boost on search relevancy?

2018-03-01 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Hi, We just installed v2.3.1 (setting AppConfig[:solr_params] = { "q.op" => "AND" } It looks as though we no longer have the boost on search relevancy so that Resources get ranked higher than items on a search. Is anyone else experiencing this? Do we have to add more key/value

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Enhanced version of aspace-import-excel: now supporting bulk ingest of Digital Objects

2018-03-08 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Library Technology Services, which supports the Harvard Library, is pleased to announce the availability of new functionality in the aspace-import-excel plugin, available on GitHub at https://github.com/harvard-library/aspace-import-excel

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] REST-protocol

2018-05-15 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Just to clarify: Aspace *Supports* an API that follows the REST protocol. While some of the programming of Aspace is *supported by* that API, I don't believe all of it is. Ymmv, Bobbi -Original Message- From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspac

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Bug fixes for aspace-import-excel

2018-06-12 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Library Technology Services, which supports the Harvard Library, is releasing a new version ( v2.1.9 ) of the aspace-import-excel plugin, available on GitHub at https://github.com/harvard-library/aspace-import-excel

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace Solr 4 -> Solr 6

2018-07-16 Thread Fox, Bobbi
We have moved to Solr 6, but we haven’t quite gotten our act together with formal documentation (for which I’m not responsible, for once :-). I’ll be sending Alexander what we have, and hope to be able to get documentation to the wider community within a few days. That said, we have *not* bee

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] New version of aspace-import-excel

2018-07-23 Thread Fox, Bobbi
This will be of interest to those using the aspace-import-excel plugin, available on GitHub at https://github.com/harvard-library/aspace-import-excel

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Any doing CAS (Central Authentication Service) for ArchivesSpace 2.* ?

2018-07-26 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Hi, all, We're trying to implement a CAS client for our ArchivesSpace instance. I tried to use the plugin at https://github.com/dartmouth-dltg/aspace-omniauth-cas , but [technical details can be skipped: that's using a Rubygem (omniauth-cas) that requires the omniauth gem at a version lev

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Yale Library ASpace PUI Usability Testing Final Report + Results

2018-08-03 Thread Fox, Bobbi
That thought had occurred to me, since I'm already knee deep in ArchiveSnake. :-) From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2018 2:56 PM To: Archivesspace Us

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] New version of aspace-import-excel

2018-08-24 Thread Fox, Bobbi
This will be of interest to those using the aspace-import-excel plugin, available on GitHub at https://github.com/harvard-library/aspace-import-excel

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] overriding default citation text in the PUI

2018-11-14 Thread Fox, Bobbi
Hi, I did overrides and extensions of models, controllers, and concerns for Harvard, mostly in the plugin_init.rb (https://github.com/harvard-library/aspace-hvd-pui/blob/master/public/plugin_init.rb) I don't know if I did them the "best" way, but they work ! >smile< hth, Bobbi From: archivess

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] overriding default citation text in the PUI

2018-11-14 Thread Fox, Bobbi
sts.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> on behalf of Fox, Bobbi mailto:bobbi_...@harvard.edu>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:19 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_G