<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I've seen some work from a few quarters on tweaking MARC and EAD exports. I may be missing something but these all seem to work with exporting resource records from the top of the tree. Our immediate use case is batch exporting descendant archival objects in MARC* for inclusion in our ILS. As such, resurrecting this thread to get a pulse of whether other institutions (and vendors) might have a use for this or if there's any work already ongoing in this area. (Unfortunately, we don't have a full-time Ruby dev on staff.)</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Jason</div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">Jason Loeffler</font></div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">Technology Consultant</font></div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">The American Academy in Rome</font></div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">Minor Science | Application Development & Metadata Strategy</font></div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">Brooklyn, New York</font></div></div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666"><a href="mailto:jason@minorscience.com" target="_blank">jason@minorscience.com</a></font></div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">(347) 405-0826</font></div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">minorscience (Skype)</font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Loeffler</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j@minorscience.com">j@minorscience.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:56 PM<br>Subject: exporting resource components as MARCXML<br>To: Archivesspace Users Group <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org">archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone.</div><div><br></div><div>Posted this on AR/JIRA and here, too, in the event any one has ideas. </div><div><br></div><div><div>Here's how we're using ArchivesSpace to catalog visual materials:</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:13.6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.45;padding:16px;border-radius:3px;word-wrap:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(247,247,247)">Repository
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Photographic Material (Archival Object, Resource Component)
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Digital Object</pre></div><div>From the OPAC side, we'd like to represent the Photographic Material resource component as a discrete biblio holding in our OPAC. </div><div><br></div><div><div>As I understand it, ArchivesSpace only exports top-level resources as MARCXML (i.e. Collection, in this case). Child resource components are available by exporting EAD container objects. </div><div><br></div></div><div>This is not ideal for our use case, as any post-processing and reformatting of EAD for consumption by OPACs is impractical. For example, EAD "flattens" subjects/agents (does not preserve datafield/subfields expected by consuming OPACs). Additionally, EAD output is monolithic; parsing several thousand container tags is onerous at best. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Can someone confirm whether this sort of task suitable for plugin development? I'm new to plugin architecture and could use some guidance before I do the deep dive and/or promote this idea to the ArchivesSpace developers. Moreover, is this a feature other institutions could benefit from? </div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and best, Jason</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">Jason Loeffler</font></div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">Principal</font></div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">Minor Science | Application Development & Metadata Strategy</font></div><div><font size="2" face="garamond, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">Brooklyn, New York</font></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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