<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,<div><br></div><div>We're currently working through how to clean up and import our 2800+ legacy EAD finding aids into ArchivesSpace, and making good progress!</div><div><br></div><div>We've run across a bit of a tricky issue, however, that we don't quite know how to overcome. Our current practice is to divide our collection-level subjects into different headings for type of material, such as Visual Materials or Manuscripts (see <a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-8725?byte=582943;focusrgn=controlaccess;rgn=Entire+Finding+Aid;size=25;sort=occur;start=1;subview=standard;type=simple;view=reslist;q1=visual+materials">this example</a>, and there are a few other categories as well). We do this frequently. </div><div><br></div><div>Note: You'll see that we've also included Genre Terms, but I think we have a good idea of how to handle these (perhaps by designating them by source or type in ArchivesSpace).</div><div><br></div><div>If it helps these are <head> tags before the subjects inside of the <controlaccess> tag in the EAD. For example:</div><div><br></div><div><div><controlaccess></div><div> <head>Subjects - Visual Materials:</head></div><div> <subject></subject></div><div> <subject></subject></div><div> <persname></persname></div><div> etc.</div><div></controlaccess></div><div><br></div></div><div>How are people handling these categories for type of material (not to be confused with Type of subject term), upon import? ASpace doesn't recognize the <head> field.</div><div><br></div><div>We thought about using the Scope Note or External Source field, but neither of those seem quite right, especially going forward. We thought about indicating category based on source of subject term, but that won't always work because of overlap. We also thought about moving subjects for Visual Materials to the appropriate component, but there won't always be a clear cut relationship between these subjects and a particular component.</div><div><br></div><div>These divisions are important for us to maintain, but just don't know how to do it. I've searched the list archive without a lot of luck. We'd be happy to hear how other people are handling this, or any ideas they might have for how to import this information into ArchivesSpace (even if all it did was visually replicate what we're doing).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Max</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Max Eckard</b><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Assistant Archivist for Digital Curation</b><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><br></b><div><img src="https://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/dean/lsa_emails/bentley-sig-em.png" width="351" height="40" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Bentley Historical Library</span><br></div><div><font size="1">1150 Beal Ave.<br>Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113<br><a href="tel:734.763.7518" value="+17349361344" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">734/763-7518</a><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://bentley.umich.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://bentley.umich.edu/</a> </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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