Don't be surprised if the import fails again, with the same message but
for a subrecord, or with a different message. That is because the
ArchivesSpace EAD importer uses a SAX parser method
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_API_for_XML) to read the XML, not
a DOM (Document Object Model) method. The former is faster and uses less
memory, but cannot scan an entire XML file for issues and report back
with a list of things to fix, as the latter would. That is why many
people use a pre-import validation step to find most of the issues that
might occur, without the laborious process of creating an import job,
waiting for it to fail, then re-running.
Harvard have made theirs into a web service which you might find useful:
https://eadchecker.lib.harvard.edu/
I think it is fairly generic (unlike a similar validation script used
here which imposes editorial restrictions as well.)
Andrew.
On 19/10/2022 22:19, Custer, Mark wrote:
Sarah,
I suspect that your EAD file is missing an archdesc/did/unitid field.
This is where ArchivesSpace pulls information to create its Identifier
field for the new Resource (see the attached screenshot), which is a
required element.
If you add something there, then I believe it should work. Here’s an
example from one of our EAD files,
https://github.com/YaleArchivesSpace/Archives-at-Yale-EAD3/blob/master/brbl-ead/1000.xml#L80
(this file is EAD3, but the archdesc/did/unitid construction looks the
same in EAD2002).
As for why you don’t have one in your file, I expect that’s because
the call number is stored in a related MARC holdings record, or
somewhere else that’s not being migrated as part of the MARC XML to
EAD conversion (e.g., an 099 field).
Mark
*From: *archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org
on behalf of
Newhouse, Sarah
*Date: *Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 4:33 PM
*To: *Archivesspace Users Group
*Subject: *[Archivesspace_Users_Group] id=0 error on EAD XML import
Hi all,
I’m trying to import a test EAD file that I transformed from MARC XML
as a trial run for doing this in batches. I knew it would be janky,
but I can’t narrow in on the specific form of the jank here. When I
import I get the error below (it’s long, apologies). My two best
guesses are
a) ASpace is missing something in each XML element needed to create an
ID in every one of the JSON fields below? (which appears to be the
entire resource record)
b) there’s something missing from the element in the XML file?
(which there shouldn’t be – I copied it in manually from an ASpace EAD
export)
I know this id_0 error is vague and has confused other people before,
but I couldn’t find enough information to help me narrow in on the
specific issue is here.
Thanks!
The following errors were found:
id_0 : Property is required but was missing
For JSONModel(:resource):
#"resource", "external_ids"=>[], "subjects"=>[{"ref"=>"/subjects/import_e9b747a7-9d78-4dac-b424-51ff0dabc301"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_b6e2afcf-be53-480e-981d-cc359ca31719"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_24b83fea-3081-4770-a77b-a2b3e870d75a"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_b5b565e8-4cf4-44ee-bef4-bb5d80ea6788"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_30ccd3c2-8d46-4373-a803-9ff8f7ad3d7a"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_68e70347-cfb7-4ccb-b1f9-2349ae2a3448"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_c06a6464-07d2-4bb4-8305-c75da3453954"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_7713afda-99d0-4382-b478-29c7c3a1167c"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_0330ec33-8f81-46ed-b221-01bbf11d0cf2"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_87b9ccf4-4873-4aa4-a951-a3eebb894f03"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_eb959373-7080-4a29-9a16-6cf2f30ad375"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_5412219d-8ae6-4cf9-904f-f2ef463377b7"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_2158afa2-e11b-4f15-a145-8d26f01eea6a"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_1e46c0e2-5f32-4c0e-97f9-07ddf8eb9531"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_310a1db4-7b94-4a72-82ca-120f408b82d7"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_80cf34db-8f1e-4d19-8b01-a2f5332471a4"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_a201450a-2a58-45fe-b85f-b499b45b4023"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_1a9edf46-9143-42dd-a46c-ba3894c8d00d"}, {"ref"=>"/subjects/import_ab2fd197-ab6e-4c56-8c66-73832460557d"}], "linked_events"=>[], "extents"=>[{"jsonmodel_type"=>"extent", "import_context"=>" ... ", "number"=>"169", "extent_type"=>"Linear Feet", "portion"=>"whole"}], "lang_materials"=>[{"jsonmodel_type"=>"lang_material", "notes"=>[], "import_context"=>" ... ", "language_and_script"=>{"jsonmodel_type"=>"language_and_script", "language"=>"und"}}], "dates"=>[{"jsonmodel_type"=>"date", "import_context"=>" ... ", "date_type"=>"inclusive", "expression"=>"1921-1998.", "label"=>"creation"}], "external_documents"=>[], "rights_statements"=>[], "linked_agents"=>[{"ref"=>"/agents/people/import_b71f978e-703f-4bc5-8c8e-a3f9f4b5d47f", "role"=>"creator", "relator"=>"creator", "terms"=>[]},
{"ref"=>"/agents/families/import_1c6bec99-db8e-43c9-85b0-c2e36da5f606",
