[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Classifications

[Christie Peterson]

Hi Nancy,

We're using the classifications strictly for our College Archives, which
has a long-standing Record Group system in place. We're not using it for
the Sophia Smith Collection or the Mortimer Rare Book Collection, both of
which are set up as separate repositories within our ASpace instance.

The classifications mirror the pre-existing RG system, so, for example,
RG12 is "Special Events and People," and the child classification 12.01 is
"Anniversaries."

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We just went into production with this, so I can't comment on how well it
works yet, but it seemed like the logical thing for us to do. We do have
accessions linked to both top-level and child-level classifications, so
that functionality appears to work.

Best,

Christie Peterson

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 4:52 PM Kennedy, Nancy <KennedyN at si.edu> wrote:

> All –
>
> How are you using classifications at your institutions?  In particular,
> can anyone speak to the nested ‘child’ classifications? I’ve been looking
> at the feature in our test installations, but am interested to see if
> anyone is using this out in the wild.  What’s the purpose of nested child
> classifications, given that it seems I can only attach a
> resource/accession/digital object to the top parent classification term?
>
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> I see AR-1884 <https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1884>
> suggesting that classifications be available across multiple repositories.
> I can see some benefit there, though so far, most of my users have seemed
> to prefer the idea that classifications would be repo specific. We haven’t
> adopted classifications yet, but if it looks like they would become global,
> I’d like to get more details sooner than later.
>
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> Thanks!
>
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> Nancy Kennedy
>
> Smithsonian Institution
>
> kennedyn at si.edu
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Christie S. Peterson

Head of Technical Services for Special Collections
Smith College
Northampton, Mass.
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