[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Instances

[Joan Curbow]

Dear all,



Description and instantiation are different things. Describing the content is not equal to what boxes the content ends up in. Correct? But something isn’t making sense to me.



I wanted to describe a collection at the series level, so in the instances, I chose my top container, but I have four boxes for my first series, so my container type is “Box” and I put 1-4 for my indicators, but this doesn’t calculate four document cases, does it? Doesn’t it only calculate 1?



But if I make four instances, that looks stupid. See below.

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It also results in a finding aid that looks like this:

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If I do this:

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I’m really describing at a file level, which I don’t want to do.



What am I not understanding?

Sincerely,

Joan Curbow
Reference Librarian and Archivist
Buena Vista University Library
Buena Vista University
610 West Fourth Street
Storm Lake, Iowa  50588
712.749.2094
www.library.bvu.edu​​





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