<div dir="ltr">(I meant to thank Chris <b>Fitzpatrick</b> in my earlier reply- apologies!)<div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div><div><div>Kate Tasker<br></div>Digital Collections Archivist<br></div>The Bancroft Library<br></div>University of California<br></div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Berkeley, CA 94720-6000</span><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Kate Tasker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ktasker@library.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">ktasker@library.berkeley.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Kari,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">We're in the middle of an Accession CSV import as well, using the template currently on the ASpace website/GitHub (<a href="https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/tree/master/backend/app/exporters/examples/accession" target="_blank">https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/tree/master/backend/app/exporters/examples/accession</a>)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">A few points which might help (these gleaned mostly from Chris Fitzgerald's helpful advice, and some trial and error):</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- The order of the fields is important</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- We included all the fields, even if some were blank in the data rows. The exception to this was fields for Agent information; if all the data rows were blank for all Agent fields, we removed the Agent columns. Including Agent columns with no data appeared to trigger a bug and cause the test import to fail. However, we were using an older version (1.0.9), so this may have been resolved with the latest version.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- Our dates did not import until we changed the template fields to date_1_expression, date_1_begin, etc (the template uses date_expression, date_begin, etc). We also found we needed to add date_1_type and date_1_label (which appear to be required fields in the interface)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- Values in date_1_type and date_1_label should be lowercase ("creation" instead of "Creation")</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- Also check the dependencies of some fields; for example, if you use extent_container_summary, you must also include extent_number and extent_type</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hope some of this is useful...good luck!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Kate</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div><div><div>Kate Tasker<br></div>Digital Collections Archivist<br></div>The Bancroft Library<br></div>University of California<br></div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Berkeley, CA 94720-6000</span><br></div></div></div>
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