[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Feature request: tag image_url in exported EAD

[Brian Hoffman]

Hi Steve,

This seems like a useful and uncontroversial change to me (I can't see how
it will break anything for others). Would you consider posting a PR on
github?

Brian



On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Steven Majewski <sdm7g at virginia.edu> wrote:

>
> It would be helpful if the repo image_url was tagged in some way to
> uniquely identify it in the exported EAD.
>
> I’m currently using this modification in a local plugin to attach an @id .
> What that id is doesn’t particularly matter, as long as it’s tagged in
> some way.
> ( I’m open to alternate suggestions here. )
>
> *--- a/backend/app/exporters/serializers/ead.rb*
> *+++ b/backend/app/exporters/serializers/ead.rb*
> @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ class EADSerializer < ASpaceExport::Serializer
>            xml.publisher { sanitize_mixed_content(data.repo.name,xml,
> fragments)
>
>
>            if data.repo.image_url
> -            xml.p {
> +            xml.p ( { "id" => "logostmt" } ) {
>                xml.extref ({"xlink:href" => data.repo.image_url,
>                            "xlink:actuate" => "onLoad",
>                            "xlink:show" => "embed",
>
>
> Identifying the repo image_url by position xpath only without some other
> tag is not really reliable if you have
> EAD from different sources : //publicationstmt/p/extref  could be a link
> to something else.
>
> Locally, tagging it with an id in local plugin works, however, we have 30+
> institutions contributing guides to
> the Virginia Heritage union catalog and a number of these institutions are
> migrating to ArchivesSpace.
> Trying to get the other institutions using ASpace to all use the same
> export plugin may not be possible.
> I would like to make it possible to directly export from ASpace to
> Virginia Heritage. Most other issues can
> be handled by tweaking our stylesheets, but this issue does seem to
> require tagging and identifying the
> logo image in some way.  This would seem to be a generally useful feature.
>
>
> — Steve Majewski / Alderman Library University of Virginia
>
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Brian Hoffman
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