[Archivesspace_Users_Group] AT to ASpace Migration -- Digital Object Date Label

[Nathan Stevens]

What should the default be for Digital Object? Creation instead of
Digitize?


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Christine Di Bella <cdibella at ias.edu>wrote:

> I don't really have anything to add, but yes, I've definitely seen this as
> well.  (I'll note that when one adds a Digital Object instance to an
> existing file/item in AT, the date field is automatically populated with
> the date information from the resource component record, so this isn't a
> matter of the field being used incorrectly in our AT deployments.)
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> I agree that this will be problematic going forward and would like to see
> a change. I haven't tried out the version of the migration plugin released
> this morning yet - perhaps this was already addressed there?
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> Christine
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> Christine Di Bella
> Archivist
> Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
> Institute for Advanced Study
> Einstein Drive
> Princeton, NJ  08540
> Email : cdibella at ias.edu
> Phone: 609-734-8368
> Website : http://library.ias.edu/archives
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> *From:* archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:
> archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] *On Behalf Of *Galligan,
> Patrick
> *Sent:* Monday, March 31, 2014 12:46 PM
> *To:* archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] AT to ASpace Migration --
> Digital Object Date Label
>
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> Hey,
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> Has anyone else run into this problem with Digital Objects?
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> We anticipate this being a larger problem as we get into digitizing more
> of our legacy collections and would love to see a revision to how ASpace
> handles the digital object dates.
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>
>
> -Patrick
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> *From:* Galligan, Patrick
> *Sent:* Friday, March 21, 2014 12:09 PM
> *To:* 'archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org'
> *Subject:* AT to ASpace Migration -- Digital Object Date Label
>
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> In migrating our Digital Objects from AT to ArchivesSpace using the
> migration plugin, we noticed that the Digital Object Date Label defaults to
> "digitized" in ArchivesSpace.
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> So where our Digital Objects in AT might have a Date Begin in 1950 and
> Date End in 1951, ArchivesSpace now defaults to displaying those dates as
> the dates the materials were digitized.
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> Is there any way to change this default label? It really isn't ideal for
> us to have all of the DOs default to a digitized date, as that is not the
> information that we have been putting in the Date boxes in AT.
>
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>
> -Patrick Galligan
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-- 
Nathan Stevens
Programmer/Analyst
Digital Library Technology Services
New York University

1212-998-2653
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