[Archivesspace_Users_Group] rights types and upgrade to 2.1.1

[Christine Di Bella]

Dear Jason,

Making rights type a non-configurable list was part of the rights specification that was distributed prior to this enhanced functionality being built into 2.1.0. The intent of this particular change was to maximize compatibility with PREMIS, but to allow “other” as a value, the specifics of which users could then specify within the Other Rights Basis field. Other Rights Basis is a configurable list.

The JIRA with all the parts of the specification is here: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-123

This is the JIRA explaining the migration path: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-114

Did your custom rights statements get migrated as Other with an Other Rights Basis that matches your previous label? We didn’t receive much feedback from people during testing about how their rights migrations went and whether what they expected to see was there, though it was something we asked for in the original release candidate announcement. During the migration, previous rights statement info. is also backed up into a table called rights_statement_pre_088. Are you seeing that in your installation?

We do know that if someone adds or deletes a value to/from a non-configurable list (which can’t be done through the Manage Controlled Value Lists area in the staff interface, but potentially can be done by working directly with the database) that it affects other parts of the application, which would explain the other behavior you describe.

Christine

Christine Di Bella
ArchivesSpace Program Manager
christine.dibella at lyrasis.org<mailto:christine.dibella at lyrasis.org>
800.999.8558 x2905
678-235-2905
cdibella13 (Skype)

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From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Jason Loeffler
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 3:06 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] rights types and upgrade to 2.1.1

Following an upgrade from 1.5.1 to 2.1.1, we're seeing an issue with rights statements.

It looks like the upgrade blows away our custom rights statement rights types from the controlled value rights type enumeration leaving us with only the new default types: copyright, license, statute, other.

In practice, attempting to edit default values for resources components yields the following<https://gist.github.com/minorscience/bbbb86d1380dd8ed3680f33bd3877b1f>. This also prevents the creation of new resource components. Furthermore, existing records have their rights statement rights type are overwriting with 'other'.

Just wanted to inquire whether this is replicable for anyone else or whether there is an additional upgrade task or documentation I'm missing.

Thanks, JL

Jason Loeffler
Technology Consultant | The American Academy in Rome
Brooklyn, New York
jason at minorscience.com<mailto:jason at minorscience.com>
(347) 405-0826
minorscience (Skype)

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