[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top container ranges

[Mayo, Dave]

The two options I see here are essentially:

1. Change the EAD
2. Change the containers after they’re ingested.

Of the two, changing the EAD seems _easier_ to me; if you wouldn’t mind going more into why that’s not a viable solution for you, it might help us provide better advice?

Either way, at 7000 finding aids, the solution would basically need to be automated – if your box ranges are very regular (i.e. only single number or range, no “3,4,7-10” or similar), it wouldn’t be too difficult – split the range on ‘-‘, generate list of numbers, replace container with multiple containers.

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Dave Mayo (he/him)
Senior Digital Library Software Engineer
Harvard University > HUIT > LTS

From: <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of "Lucas, Dawne Howard" <dawne_lucas at unc.edu>
Reply-To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 8:13 AM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top container ranges


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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