[Archivesspace_Users_Group] How does searching with the dates filled out work?

[Andrew Morrison]

All dates in the "Dates" section of a record are indexed for use in 
date-range searches, regardless of the label.

For example, if something was created between 1880 and 1885, but it was 
also published in June 1950, and digitized on 4th May 2010, then it'll 
be indexed with the years 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1950, and 
2010. Therefore, as well as matching searches with a date range of 
1800-1900, it'll also match 1900-2000, or even 2000-present. But it 
won't match dates ranges in the gaps between, i.e. any subset of 
1886-1949 or 1951-2009.

It would be possible to write a plug-in to choose which dates to index.

Andrew.


On 05/12/2022 17:08, Tessa Wakefield wrote:
> Hello!
> Forgive me if this is a silly question -- we're new to using 
> ArchivesSpace! I'm confused as to how the dates work when entered in 
> the search function ("From year" and "To year" boxes). Does narrowing 
> your search by date range only pull records marked with dates that 
> fall within? I've tried doing this in our Aspace instance, as well as 
> in a few others, and results show up that are not within the dates. 
> For example, with a parameter of 1900 to 2000, results with dates from 
> the 1800s were included. I think I'm not understanding how this 
> actually works and before we go live for our users to access our 
> finding aids, I want to make sure we know what we're talking about!
>
> Thanks!
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