<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi Cheryl,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'll also chime in here - I just got (mostly) through converting a ton of data that were eloquent data exported to tab delimited text/spreadsheet. We had a LARGE collection we purchased, and that was what we got with it: a dump of their eloquent data.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I made use of Stead: <a href="https://github.com/jronallo/stead">https://github.com/jronallo/stead</a> to do the conversion to EAD, and some local scripts to do some stuff to the converted EAD prior to upload to ArchivesSpace.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A colleague and I made some local modifications/enhancements Stead to get it to work with our data. I would be more than happy to talk with you offline about how I did this if this is something you're interested in. And I would of course share my code.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">--<span> </span></span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_signature" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bria L. Parker</font><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Head, Discovery and Metadata Services</font></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2200 McKeldin Library<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">University of Maryland<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">College Park, MD 20742-7011<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="tel:%28301%29%20405-9067" value="+13014059067" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">(301) 405-9067</a><u></u><u></u></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><a href="mailto:blparker@umd.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">blparker@umd.edu</font></a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Mayo, Dave <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave_mayo@harvard.edu" target="_blank">dave_mayo@harvard.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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Oof, that’s rough. I have a few questions, if you don’t mind.<br>
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1. Can you provide more detail on why EAD export is impossible? I only ask because they claim EAD export on their website pretty prominently, and it would be, I think, much easier than doing a migration from proprietary text format.<br>
2. Are you comfortable with programming in a scripting language (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.) or do you have access to someone who is?<br>
3. What does the ASCII format actually look like? An example record would be really helpful in giving advice.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Assuming that EAD is entirely out of reach, I think this would take either, as you mentioned, manual transfer, or someone writing a script to take the ascii output, turn it into ASpace JSONModel objects, and import it via the API. The
hardest part is probably the conversion step – there’s a fair amount of code out there for doing imports of JSONModel objects (or you can just strip the EAD -> JSONModel part out of EAD import scripts), but I don’t know that there’s a way around significant
programming effort. Even EAD migrations have in my experience involved a fair amount of programming, though size and scope of collection matters a lot for how important that is.<br>
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- Dave Mayo<br>
ASpace Core Committers Group<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_users_group-<wbr>bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>> on behalf of Christine Di Bella <<a href="mailto:christine.dibella@lyrasis.org" target="_blank">christine.dibella@lyrasis.org</a><wbr>><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Archivesspace Users Group <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_users_group@<wbr>lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 8:59 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Archivesspace Users Group <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_users_group@<wbr>lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Archivesspace_Users_Group] FW: [Archivesspace_member_reps] Migrating Data from Eloquent Systems to ArchivesSpace<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_8729161767391144590__MailOriginalBody">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I’m forwarding this for Cheryl from the Member Representatives list in case anyone here has made a move from Eloquent and has suggestions or advice. The program team will also reach out with
some ideas.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Christine<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Christine Di Bella</span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">ArchivesSpace Program Manager</span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">cdibella13 (Skype)</span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:archivesspace_member_reps-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_member_reps-<wbr>bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a> <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_member_reps-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_member_reps-<wbr>bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Cheryl Ziegler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 14, 2018 8:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:archivesspace_member_reps@lyralists.lyrasis.org" target="_blank">archivesspace_member_reps@<wbr>lyralists.lyrasis.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Archivesspace_member_reps] Migrating Data from Eloquent Systems to ArchivesSpace<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hello all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I am under significant time constraints to move my data from Eloquent Systems to ArchivesSpace as my contract with Eloquent is over effective April 30. I was led to believe that my data could
be exported in EAD format. Unfortunately, that is not true. I can only export my data into ASCII delimited text format. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I am flying blind here and I know there is not an easy "fix." If I need to manually input my records, then I need to start doing that right away. If there is a way to convert ASCII into a workable
migration format, then I need advise on how to accomplish that conversion. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Some background: earlier in the year, my IT Director told me he had figured out how to do this migration. He has resigned taking that information with him although I am not sure that he actually
<u>had</u> figured it out.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I am willing to do the work. I just need a process.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Thank you,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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