[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Best practices for broken date spans and multiple single dates?

[Christine Di Bella]

Hi Joshua,

While you could put all of those into a date expression field, if you're wanting to be able to use dates in calculations and such multiple normalized dates are definitely the better way to go. Your message is timely because there's an issue for this that we're actively working on and hoping to get into the next release - https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-172. It should be testable on our regular test server (http://test.archivesspace.org)  soon.

Christine

Christine Di Bella
ArchivesSpace Program Manager
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 <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> On Behalf Of Minor, Joshua Alexander
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 9:54 AM
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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Best practices for broken date spans and multiple single dates?

Hello all,

I'm hoping this isn't a silly question or that I've just completely missed something in the help center/documentation but I'm wondering what's the best practice for inputting broken date spans (for example: 1920, 1980-1990) and for inputting multiple single dates (for example: 1900, 2010) at the series and/or file level in ArchivesSpace. I've checked the ArchivesSpace users group archives and this question did come up in 2015 but I didn't see an answer for it. It seems that ArchivesSpace doesn't want to string multiple dates together (unless you're inputting Bulk Dates) and instead just displays the first date entry in both the public interface and staff interface. I'm guessing the easiest way to handle this would be to use 1920, 1980-1990 as the Expression, use "inclusive" as the type, use 1920 as the Begin date, and use 1990 as the End date but this would lead to some inaccurate search results.

Am I missing something? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Joshua Minor
​Manager of Archival Processing
College of Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina, 29424
email: minorja at cofc.edu
tel: 843-953-0470

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