[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Import Error Message Suggestion

[Kottman, Miloche]

Steve,

I've figured out what this one is about since we've got oodles too!

The importer is expecting a <unittitle> field for each <c> tag.  If there isn't a <unittitle> then it will accept a <unitdate> field instead.  So, for example, I will get that error if my finding aid has the following stanza because I don't have a title or date for Box 1:

<c01 level="collection"><did><container type="box">Box 1</container></did>
                <c02><did><container type="folder">1</container>
                <unittitle>Christmas card, from Drs. Williams, Frerichs, and Call, </unittitle>
                <unitdate>1965</unitdate></did>
                </c02>

I'm putting our finding aids with this error into a file to deal with some other day.  If you come up with a solution, let me know.

--Miloche Kottman
University of Kansas Libraries

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Steven Majewski
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 3:48 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Import Error Message Suggestion



... or if not the line number, at least the enclosing element or some context to indicate where the missing item is missing from.

We're getting lots of errors ( on validated EAD) like:


Error: #<:ValidationException: {:errors=>{"dates"=>["one or more required (or enter a Title)"], "title"=>["must not be an empty string (or enter a Date)"]}}>

It seems to be saying it's expecting a date or title somewhere but it doesn't indicate where.


( If it's difficult to get this context info on import, an acceptable alternative would be to provide
a tighter version of the EAD schema that more closely corresponds to what the ArchivesSpace
importer accepts.  )

- Steve Majewski


On Feb 5, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Jaime Margalotti <jmargalo at udel.edu<mailto:jmargalo at udel.edu>> wrote:


The error message currently driving me crazy is "archival_object/dates/0/ end must not be before begin."  I understand what it means, but finding the single incorrectly typed normalized date in the container list of a long finding aid is nearly impossible.  If error messages could include which line in the finding aid caused them to fail to import, it would be an enormous help.
Many thanks,
Jaime

--

Jaime L. Margalotti

Senior Assistant Librarian

Manuscripts and Archives Department University of Delaware Library

Newark, DE  19717-5267

302-831-0554

jmargalo at udel.edu<mailto:jmargalo at udel.edu>


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