[Archivesspace_Users_Group] help with API route for archival object notes

[Karen Miller]

Good morning, ArchivesSpace users.

I am a cataloger (*not* a developer) using the API to update ArchivesSpace. So far I've figured out how to add LCCNs to the authority_Id of Agent records and do a couple more updates that, in retrospect, were pretty simple.

The next task I'd like to tackle, however, just seems like maybe it can't be done. We've got a lot of notes with html tags in them and I would like to update those to valid tags. I can get the JSON for the notes in any particular archival object, but I don't know how to specify the route to the note to change it. The JSON looks like this:

'notes': [{'content': ['This is a note with a bad <i>tag</i>'],
            'jsonmodel_type': 'note_singlepart',
            'persistent_id': '75ba0ec57e374b8b154551a69b4c311f',
            'publish': True,
            'type': 'abstract'},
           {'jsonmodel_type': 'note_multipart',
            'persistent_id': '66afa07b3214260078123236bbe1ff27',
            'publish': True,
            'subnotes': [{'content': 'This is a dippy note.',
                          'jsonmodel_type': 'note_text',
                          'publish': True}],
            'type': 'scopecontent'}],

I got this using the route 'repositories/10/archival_objects/489763', but I don't know how to specify the note that I want in the JSON. For the agent authority_id I used the route ''/agents/people/<somenumber> and specified the field like this:

['names'][0]['authority_id']

I'm hoping this is an easy question for somebody with more experience with the API and (especially) with JSON than I. I'm a little afraid the answer is that it can't be done. Any advice will be appreciated!

Karen

Karen D. Miller
Monographic Cataloger/Metadata Specialist
Northwestern University Libraries
Northwestern University
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
www.library.northwestern.edu
k-miller3 at northwestern.edu
874.467.3462

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