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<p>We encountered this as well and included it in our feedback.</p>
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<p>This is actually only one of a much bigger, badder assumption in the migration tool: if there isn't a value, the migrator sticks in the default value.</p>
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<p>Another example: all ingested extents are considered "whole". </p>
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<p>Default values should never be used as auto-fill for required fields during a migration. A neutral, factually correct alternative (like "unknown" or "unspecified") is far more helpful.</p>
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Harvard University Archives<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Callahan, Maureen
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 4, 2015 11:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Archivesspace_Users_Group] data problem with the migrator</font>
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<div>Something for ALL users going into ASpace from AT to be aware of — the AT migrator creates a rights record in ArchivesSpace if the “Rights Transferred” box is checked in AT. (As I mentioned last month, it only brings over the rights transferred note if
this box is checked, which is a different kind of problem).
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<div class="">Here’s what it looks like (attached, for those without in-line image viewing):</div>
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<div class="">Guys, I’m sorry, but there are a ton of terrible assumptions here based on the presence of a clicked checkbox. Just because rights were transferred doesn’t mean that COPYRIGHT was transferred (copyright could be transferred to the public domain,
for instance), it doesn’t mean that the copyright is still active, and I also wouldn’t assume that the jurisdiction is the United States.</div>
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<div class="">I’d like to request that the AT migrator be changed to something a little more modest.</div>
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<div class="">We’ve been working very hard at Yale to get our rights documentation in order and we’d like to keep this in ASpace. This means that I need to delete these often-erroneous rights records.I don’t see anything in the API documentation about deleting
rights records — could you give me some guidance about the safest way to do so?</div>
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<div class="">Thanks much,</div>
<div class="">Maureen</div>
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