[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Component Unique Identifiers questions

[Tang, Lydia]

Hi all,
I’m passing along a question for a friend and then have a set of slightly related questions of my own:

  1.  I am trying to find a way to have a series identifier code appear on the finding aid.  The Component Unique Identifier does not appear to print, and the only examples I have come across have just added Series 1 to the beginning of the series name as in:
Series 1. Athletic Council records, 1903-1975.  Does anyone use the Series code on your finding aid, and if so, where do you add it?
  2.  My question: I have a legacy imported collection which uses the Series info in the CUI.  It displays as “Series Series X” in the top container field.  Sorry if I’m stating the obvious, but this label pulls the first “series” from the level of description – only if it is at a series level (I tried changing it to subseries and other smaller levels) and the rest is free text from the CUI.  When there are materials from more than one series are shared in a Top Container, it lists off possibly up to two series (it didn’t seem like it listed off 3 or more, but I might have been confusing myself).  I am not sure that Staff Interface recommendations by SIEWG touched on the CUI, so I wanted to ask:
     *   Would it be helpful to have a publish function for the CUI?  Just trying to imagine it, it would be an established default setting with a check box to manually change.
     *   Is displaying the information in the Top Container the most efficient/logical place - especially in cases of extensive intellectual arrangement of items belonging to multiple series sharing a container?  There is a JIRA relating to CUI display: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-279  Does this resonate with the broader membership (you all)?
     *   Is deriving a portion of the label from the level of description for the CUI universally helpful?  How about in cases of electronic file names or labeling physical objects with the corresponding scanned object identifier?  Alternatively, would enabling this action for smaller levels of description (sub-series, file, item, etc), be helpful?
I’m just trying to wrap my head around it, so any feedback/clarifications are greatly appreciated!
Lydia
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Dr. Lydia Tang, CA, DAS, DMA, MLIS
Special Collections Archivist-Librarian
Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Ethics Bibliographer
Michigan State University Libraries
366 W. Circle Drive (DB 6)
East Lansing, MI 48824-1048
Email: ltang5 at msu.edu
Phone: 517-884-8984
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