[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Import lists - bug or planned?

Mon May 2 15:48:12 EDT 2016

And I forgot the attachments of course!
Lynne

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Lynne E. Grigsby <
lgrigsby at library.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Archivesspace doesn't seem to be able to import lists nested more than 2
> deep. The attached finding aid contains a nested list within the Partial
> List of Correspondents encoded within <odd>:
>
> <odd>
>
> <head>Partial List of Correspondents</head>
>
> <list type="simple">
>
> <item>Miscellany (single letters)
>
>   <list type="simple">
>
>    <item><emph render="bold">Breed, Arthur Hastings, 1865-1953</emph>
>
>     <list type="simple">
>
>      <item>Letter, Sept. 26, 1928</item></list></item>
>
>      <item><emph render="bold">California Forest Protective
> Association</emph>
>
>       <list type="simple">
>
>        <item>Letter, Oct, 14, 1926. Enclosure: draft</item>
>
>       </list>
>
>      </item>
>
>      <item><emph render="bold">Chandler, Harry, 1864-1944</emph>
>
>       <list type="simple">
>
>        <item>Letter, Oct. 15, 1925</item>
>
>       </list>
>
>      </item>
>
>
>
> etc.
>
> The EAD imports into AS without errors but only the second item "Breed,
> Arthur Hastings, 1865-1953" displays in AS. The pdf version is also
> truncated as is the exported EAD finding aid. PDF is also attached.
>
> As background, Bancroft's Partial Lists of Correspondents are very old
> legacy structures which were encoded as lists within <odd>. They aren't
> container lists - most of these finding aids have container lists in
> addition to the partial lists as in this example. And while <index> seems
> appropriate, the xml model doesn't allow it.
>
> Is this limit planned or could be expanded in the future? If planned,
> could it give an error?  We just happened to notice it but don't know if
> other EADs we have loaded have the same problem.  We are checking that now.
>
>
> Thanks!
> Lynne
>
>
>
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