<div dir="ltr">Johanna and Mark,<div><br></div><div>The Bentley has also been doing a lot of work to break up our formerly single extent statements containing multiple parts into partial extents. As part of this work, we also noticed the limitations of the ArchivesSpace EAD importer for importing partial extents. We made some changes to our EAD importer plugin to properly handle altrender="part" attributes. Additionally, we added some extra functionality to make sure that physdesc contents don't get broken up into multiple notes. For example, something like this...</div><div><br></div><div><physdesc altrender="part"></div><div> <extent>5 linear feet</extent></div><div></physdesc></div><div><physdesc altrender="part"></div><div> <extent>2 photographs</extent></div><div> <dimensions>8 x 10</dimensions></div><div></physdesc></div><div><br></div><div>...by default becomes two whole extents of "5 linear feet" and "2 photographs" and one entirely separate dimensions note of "8 x 10" </div><div><br></div><div>You can see how we made some of those changes here: <a href="https://github.com/bentley-historical-library/bhl-ead-importer/blob/master/backend/model/bhl_ead_converter.rb#L259-L334" target="_blank">https://github.com/bentley-historical-library/bhl-ead-importer/blob/master/backend/model/bhl_ead_converter.rb#L259-L334</a></div><div><br></div><div>A colleague has also submitted some of these changes as a pull request here: <a href="https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/pull/312" target="_blank">https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/pull/312</a></div><div><br></div><div>Dallas</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Custer, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.custer@yale.edu" target="_blank">mark.custer@yale.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Hi, Johanna.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I don’t have any good answers, but I’m pretty sure that you’ll need to update ASpace’s EAD 2002 importer to import those “part” attributes. If that’s done, it would be great if that new feature could be added
to the core code.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Similarly, I’d love for the official ASpace EAD importer and exporter to be updated to do what the archivists at the Bentley recently blogged about,
<a href="http://archival-integration.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-archivesspace-api.html" target="_blank">
http://archival-integration.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-archivesspace-api.html</a> – namely, to maintain references to subject and agent records that are already properly subdivided in the database rather than creating new ones when performing EAD imports (although
I’d probably use the altrender attribute for this purpose, rather than adding a new ref attribute… but that’s only because I hate to invalidate EAD files!).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Also, about a month ago, I discovered that the ASpace EAD importer silently drops any “ead:note” elements in a finding aid. If you have any of those, you’ll want to convert them to another element, like “ead:odd”.
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Carll, Johanna<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 19, 2015 9:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Extent questions<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Harvard University has embarked on a project to ingest all of its EAD finding aids (numbering over 6,000) into ArchivesSpace. One of the areas we are struggling with is the collection level extent record. Can anyone help with the following
issues?<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><u></u>How should we tag extents we want to ingest as part, not whole, extents? Based on EAD exports of records created in AS, I tried the following tagging, but the ingest still resulted in whole instead of part extent statements:
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<p><physdesc altrender="part"><extent >5 videotapes</extent> </physdesc> <physdesc altrender="part"><extent >2 DVDs</extent></physdesc><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><u></u><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>How are you expressing uncertainty in extents (example: approximately 500 photographs)? Since there isn't a certainty field in AS extent record (like there is in the collection dates record), we would like to know how others are expressing
approximate extents.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Johanna Carll
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