[Archivesspace_Users_Group] What defines "a repository?"

[Valerie Addonizio]

I am bumping this question back up, since I do need a working understanding of the relationship between repositories and Agents and Subjects in order to plan our migration. If my question is totally bonkers, feel free to tell me.

-Valerie

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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] What defines "a repository?"

Dear everyone,

Here's another pretty basic question.

I currently have three repositories in our instance of AS. One was created by the migrator when I migrated over our accessions, one is blank, and one holds resources that I want to play around with.

Today I imported our accessions and created the third repository mentioned above, but was surprised to find that the names and subjects that I had imported appeared in every repository, not just the repository that the migrator created. This made me realize that a very basic assumption of mine was seriously flawed: I had guessed that repositories were completely separate from one another, and that if I had an agent record for "Doe, John" in one, it would not appear elsewhere.

So, I'd like to request a basic explanation of what the repositories hold that are unique to them, and what is shared across the entire instance? What defines "a repository?"

Thanks for the continuing assistance!

-Valerie

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Valerie Addonizio
Archivist
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
vaddoniz at jhu.edu<mailto:vaddoniz at jhu.edu>
410-516-5261

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