[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Fwd: Enumerations Findings

[Carlos Lemus]

Carlos Lemus
Application Programmer, Special Collections Technical Services
University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

*How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? - Sherlock Holmes*

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From: Carlos Lemus <carlos.lemus at unlv.edu>
Date: Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:34 AM
Subject: Enumerations Findings
To: archivesspace at googlegroups.com
Cc: Cynthia Shein <cyndi.shein at unlv.edu>, Carol Ou <carol.ou at unlv.edu>


Hello,

Thank you guys for your interest in this topic. It seems we can all agree
there is some confusion on the creation of controlled values that occur
when there is an import whether it is marc or ead. I've attached a simple
EAD example to import (may not be complete, but does contain some valid
examples). This EAD example was exported from our testing area for
ArchivesSpace and I've round trip it as a new record. While I don't think
we've had any character/UTF8 encoding samples, I wanted to point out some
simpler examples (with incorrect enumerations).

Under the <physdec> -> <extent> -> you will see 1 Linear  Feet. Though it
is correct in the EAD, on import, it will create a new Linear Feet value
instead of using the already existing controlled value of linear_feet.

Similarly, for containers under <container label="Mixed Materials"> it will
create a new enumeration as Mixed Materials instead of mixed_materials.

Evidently, if this happens for many records you'll see many enumeration
values that are not correct under your values when you create a record.  We
are still under 1.4.2 and cannot speak for the new version.

Thank you,
Carlos Lemus
Application Programmer, Special Collections Technical Services
University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

*How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? - Sherlock Holmes*
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