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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I just wrapped up performing a bit of migration testing from Archivists’ Toolkit to ArchivesSpace, and I thought that I would share my results here, even though I’m still going through the details. Attached
are 3 files:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">A word document that breaks down my notes into three problem categories:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Migration tool<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">ArchivesSpace EAD export<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">c.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">ArchivesSpace editing interface / database<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">An excel document that lists out all of the EAD elements and attribute in a set of 34 EAD files, as exported from Archivists’ Toolkit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">An excel document that lists out all of the EAD elements and attribute in a set of 34 EAD files, as exported from ArchivesSpace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Those last two documents are what I’m still analyzing at this point, but I figured that I’d share the results now in case anyone else is doing their own migration testing right now. Also, I should say that I
did all of my testing with version 1.0.4. of ArchivesSpace and version 1.0.4 (02-11-2014) of the AT Data Migrator tool. That said, I did quickly verify within the ArchivesSpace sandbox that both the “accessrestrict” and “legalstatus” notes are still not being
exported into EAD in version 1.0.7.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’ve also noted a few irregularities between importing EAD documents vs. using the migration tool. One example: when I import an EAD file, the position of the first component, in the “archival_object” table,
is never 0 but generally 1. I suppose that this is because it’s counting the number of children element of DSC, and there’s a head element in there?.... but when I use the migration tool, the position value of the first component is always 0, as expected.
But, I’m going to hold off on doing any more analysis of the EAD import tool until after we’ve installed version 1.0.7 of ArchivesSpace. And regardless, I think that we’ll be using the AT Data Migration tool to get all of our EAD files into ArchivesSpace,
since so far it seems to be doing a very good job, and I’ve also had trouble doing batch EAD imports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">All my best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Mark Custer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Archivist / Metadata Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">203-432-2969<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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