[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Importing legacy accession records

[Maura Carbone]

Another thing to keep in mind is if you need to restore from an earlier
backup of the database because of import muckiness, you could lose work
that was happening simultaneously or be forced to go through and delete a
bunch of stuff by hand. But if you just coordinate (we're doing a batch
upload, please don't enter any records in right now), you should be fine.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Galligan, Patrick <PGalligan at rockarch.org>
wrote:

> Faith,
>
>
>
> If you mean just importing through background jobs into the AS database,
> you’ll be totally fine.
>
>
>
> It may throw an error if your Accession identifier is not unique and
> already exists in the system, but that’s as bad I’d expect it to get.
>
>
>
> 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 *Faith
> F. Charlton
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 07, 2016 2:33 PM
> *To:* Archivesspace Users Group
> *Subject:* [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Importing legacy accession records
>
>
>
> Hello everyone-
>
>
>
> I have a (somewhat paranoid) question for the many of you who have already
> experienced the lovely joys of migrating or importing legacy accession
> records. I’m wondering whether anyone has had an issue importing legacy
> data when there were existing accession records in the application. We
> intend to start creating new accession records while simultaneously
> planning the “fun” task of importing our legacy records (which will require
> the manipulation of 3 data sets: spreadsheets, a legacy access database,
> and Word docs--Yip), and I just want to make sure that having existing
> records won’t muck anything up when we finally import the legacy stuff
> (presuming that that data is clean as a whistle ;).
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Faith
>
> ________________________________
>
> Faith Charlton
>
> Lead Processing Archivist, Manuscript Division Collections
>
> Princeton University Library
>
> One Washington Road
>
> Princeton, NJ 08540
>
> 609-258-3223
>
> faithc at princeton.edu
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Archivesspace_Users_Group mailing list
> Archivesspace_Users_Group at lyralists.lyrasis.org
> http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group
>
>


-- 
Maura Carbone
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Brandeis University
Library and Technology Services
(781) 736-4659
415 South Street, (MS 045/P.O. Box 549110)
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
email: mauraa at brandeis.edu
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/pipermail/archivesspace_users_group/attachments/20160707/de0ed02e/attachment.html>