<div dir="ltr">I believe the level of description field is required in ArchivesSpace, so it may be difficult for you to stop using it even if you want to.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:29 PM Jordon Steele <<a href="mailto:jsteele@jhu.edu">jsteele@jhu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is more of an archival description question, but I’m not a member of that listserv, so I figured it would be easier to ping some of you about this for advice since I wager there’s a lot of overlap.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have not-infrequent discussions around here about what “level of description” label to assign to an archival component at a given level, i.e. collection, series, file, item, etc. But because our data is already structured in hierarchical
relationships via EAD/JSON, there’s no real need to “tell the computer” what level this is since these labels aren’t the way computers understand context and hierarchy, the nesting of data is.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Once I realized this, I often made the case that these level-of-description labels are useful for stylesheets, i.e. tell a stylesheet with level=series to make it all caps and bold, level=file should be red, etc. But the ASpace PUI doesn’t/doesn’t
need to style levels in this manner for the hierarchy to be easily understood.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So we’re considering discontinuing use of the “level of description” field in ASpace. But am I missing an important value of this field? Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jordon<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jordon Steele<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hodson Curator of the University Archives<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sheridan Libraries<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Johns Hopkins University<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3400 N Charles St<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Baltimore, MD 21218<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jsteele@jhu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">jsteele@jhu.edu</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">410-516-5493<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">he/him/his<u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">Trevor Thornton</font><div><font size="2" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">Applications Developer, Digital Library Initiatives</font></div><div><font size="2" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#666666">North Carolina State University Libraries</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>