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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Cheryl,<br>
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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<o:p></o:p></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"><archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Christine Di Bella <christine.dibella@lyrasis.org><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 8:59 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Archivesspace_Users_Group] FW: [Archivesspace_member_reps] Migrating Data from Eloquent Systems to ArchivesSpace<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Christine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Christine Di Bella</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">ArchivesSpace Program Manager</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span><a href="mailto:christine.dibella@lyrasis.org"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">christine.dibella@lyrasis.org</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">800.999.8558 x2905</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">cdibella13 (Skype)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b>From:</b> archivesspace_member_reps-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_member_reps-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Cheryl Ziegler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 14, 2018 8:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> archivesspace_member_reps@lyralists.lyrasis.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Archivesspace_member_reps] Migrating Data from Eloquent Systems to ArchivesSpace<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">I am willing to do the work. I just need a process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Cheryl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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