[Archivesspace_Users_Group] [EXT] Bulk transform subjects into agents?

[Norton, Channing]

Megan,

It’s likely, depending on exactly what form you have this old data in, and what talent you have on your team, that the ArchivesSpace REST API is the best way to address your needs. I’ve included some useful resources below.

Main documentation
https://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/api/?python#archivesspace-rest-api
list of JSON schemas for the API
https://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/doc/schema_list.html
ArchivesSnake (a python library for working with the ArchivesSpace API)
https://github.com/archivesspace-labs/ArchivesSnake
Example script repositories from a few different institutions
https://github.com/jhu-library-applications/archivesspace-api
https://github.com/duke-libraries/archivesspace-duke-scripts/tree/master
https://github.com/MITLibraries/archivesspace-api-python-scripts


Channing Norton (He/Him/They/Them)
Senior Programmer Analyst
Digital Initiatives
University of Rochester

On Campus Tues, Wed

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> On Behalf Of Megan Brett
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 9:39 AM
To: archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org
Subject: [EXT] [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Bulk transform subjects into agents?

Hello all,

Does anyone have experience updating old data in ASpace in batch? We have information which came over from Archon into an older version of ASpace. As a result, we have a large number of subjects which should be agents. Correcting all of this manually would take a lot of time; has anyone done similar remediation with a script of some sort? Or have another solution?

Thanks very much,

Megan Brett
Jefferson Library

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