[Archivesspace_Users_Group] where are the boxes?

[Galligan, Patrick]

Matt,

Strictly speaking, containers are not elements/levels of archival description, and really don't belong in a components list with other levels of description (series, collection, file, etc.).

Boxes are included in instances in AS, where they indicate the physical location. If you created an instance with a box number in ArchivesSpace, you would see it showing up to the right side of the component list. It doesn't look like you have instances for boxes and folders in your AS resource.

I think Maureen Callahan of Yale encapsulated many of my feelings about containers and archival description in a blog post almost a year ago: https://icantiemyownshoes.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/on-containers/

Patrick Galligan
Rockefeller Archive Center
Assistant Digital Archivist
914-366-6386

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Matthew J Gorzalski
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 12:02 PM
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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] where are the boxes?

Pardon my ignorance, but s ArchivesSpace supposed to include boxes as a part of the container (components?) list?  These screen shots show the difference between the ASpace admin/public view of a container list, which only lists only files.  The other screen shot shows the Archon equivalent of the same collection, noting boxes in which the folders reside.

MATT GORZALSKI
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