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<p class="MsoNormal">Mark,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your helpful reply! I'll start by mentioning that I'm not a programmer and have never used an API before, so I don't know how to do it, but knowing that it CAN be done is a good start.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I looked at your digital object converter code, and I see that there is a bioghist note in it. I imagine a summary note could be added the same way, copying that code? Again, I'm not sure where to put this code or how to use it, but seeing
it gives me hope.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I found the documentation for the ArchivesSpace RESTful API on github (<a href="http://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/doc/file.API.html">http://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/doc/file.API.html</a>), but it's somewhat beyond
my present level of knowledge and understanding.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Since I know essentially nothing about APIs, I'm going to follow the advice in the University of Michigan's blog post on ArchivesSpace APIs (<a href="http://archival-integration.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-archivesspace-api.html">http://archival-integration.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-archivesspace-api.html</a>)
and look at the ArchivesSpace Developer Screencasts (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJFitFaE9AY_DDlhl3Kq_vFeX27F1yt6I">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJFitFaE9AY_DDlhl3Kq_vFeX27F1yt6I</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can you recommend any other resources or tutorials I should look at to get started?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are hosted by LYRASIS, if that changes anything.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks also for the advice about not using the user defined fields for this. I'll throw that idea away.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You asked how we were using digital objects. You used the phrase "glorified linking mechanism," and that's pretty close to how we're using them. A lot (most) of the information is duplicated between our digital objects and the archival
objects they're linked to.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here's a sample digital object from our institution:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://unomaha-public.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/4/digital_objects/211">http://unomaha-public.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/4/digital_objects/211</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And here's its corresponding archival object:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://unomaha-public.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/4/archival_objects/33757">http://unomaha-public.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/4/archival_objects/33757</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We had considered creating series-level archival objects and linking all appropriate digital objects to them, but after the advice from several folks on this list (discussion in early February), we went with a one-to-one relationship between
item-level archival objects and digital objects.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We've been manually adding digital objects and archival objects from our spreadsheet one at a time, and it is painfully slow. I saw the digital object import as a way of cutting out one of the steps. After importing the CSV of digital object
records, as far as I can tell, we'll still have to manually create the archival object records and manually link each one to its corresponding digital object. Or can that also be done with an API?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, again!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--Angela<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Angela Kroeger<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:akroeger@unomaha.edu"><span style="color:windowtext">akroeger@unomaha.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Archives and Special Collections Associate<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Nebraska at Omaha<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(402) 554-4159<o:p></o:p></p>
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