[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Linking location data to containers

[Joan Curbow]

This is probably a side topic, but as a complete newbie, I find the documentation really thin, especially compared to the Archives Toolkit that one can view online (replete with screenshots). Will there come a day when the Aspace documentation will be more fleshed out for those of us who are absolute beginners?


Sincerely,

Joan Curbow
Copy Cataloger/Serials/Archives
Buena Vista University Library
Buena Vista University
610 West Fourth Street
Storm Lake, IA  50588
712-749-2094
Email: curbowj at bvu.edu

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-----Original Message-----
From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Brad Westbrook
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 3:15 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Linking location data to containers

Hi, Sibyl,

The feature described in the Googles post has not yet made it into the ArchivesSpace application.  At present, locations can be assigned only at the instance level.  

Part of our plan going forward is to conduct a fairly systematic review of the ArchivesSpace application module by module, augmenting each module as appropriate.  We have just started this process and are focusing first on  import/exports and reports.  I expect review of the location module will come soon after, as will review of the digital object module.  

Yrs,

Brad W.

Bradley D. Westbrook
Program Manager
brad.westbrook at lyrasis.org
800.999.8558 x2910
678.235.2910
bradley_d_westbrook (Skype) 



  

-----Original Message-----
From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Schaefer, Sibyl
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 3:31 PM
To: archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Linking location data to containers

Hi ArchivesSpace staff and users-

It appears the only way to link locations and materials is at the instance level. Is this correct? There is a closed Pivotal Tracker issue concerning
this:
"As an Archivist, I want to assign Location information to a Container²
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/s/projects/386247/stories/35417697

There¹s also a question on the Google Group referring to the AT functionality using the "Manage Locations² button (which involves linking locations to the containers listed within a resource record), dated after the PT issue was closed:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/archivesspace/Vhbs9WvEmwY/ilAlzQMZUI0
J

Has this feature actually made it into the application? If it has, where exactly can I expect to find it?

Thanks!

Sibyl

Sibyl Schaefer
Asst. Director, Head of Digital Programs Rockefeller Archive Center




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