[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top container ranges

[Lucas, Dawne Howard]

Hi all,



We are formulating a plan to import our 7000+ EAD finding aids into ArchivesSpace and are wondering how other institutions have handled top container ranges.



For example, we have finding aids coded like this:



<c02><did><container type="box" label="Box">3-4</container><unittitle>Photographs</unittitle></did></c02>



This imports into ASpace just fine (yay!), but of course also creates a top container for Box 3-4 instead of Box 3 and Box 4 (boo!). We assume this will be an issue later when we integrate with Aeon.



The most obvious solution to this problem appears to be to change the encoding to:



<c02><did><container type="box" label="Box">3</container><unittitle>Photographs</unittitle></did></c02>



<c02><did><container type="box" label="Box">4 </container><unittitle>Photographs</unittitle></did></c02>



For several reasons, this is not a viable solution for us. Have other institutions figured out a way to deal with this issue that does not include editing the EAD in individual finding aids?

Thanks for your help,

Dawne

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Dawne Howard Lucas (she/her/hers)
Technical Services Archivist

Wilson Special Collections Library
200 South Road, CB #3926
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
P  919-966-1776   E  dawne_lucas at unc.edu<mailto:dawne_lucas at unc.edu>

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