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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks for everyone’s feedback. Sounds like it was a good idea to post this question to ASpace listserv, because I’m noticing that there are important style and
formatting dependencies in the PUI that require levels of description labels. Based on this reality, we’ll let sleeping dogs lie for now and keep using these labels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Cory Nimer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 10, 2019 12:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Discontinuing use of "levels of description" labels?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Jordon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Another case similar to Steve's Aeon example is that the level value can be used in establishing inheritance rules for element display. If you are using the PUI, you can limit the inheritance of
specific elements to prevent them from being included in archival object displays based on their level of description value. An example of this is provided at the end of the record inheritance section of the configuration documentation (<a href="http://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/user/configuring-archivesspace/">http://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/user/configuring-archivesspace/</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Cory Nimer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">University Archivist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Brigham Young University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">801-422-6091<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org">archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a> <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org">archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>>
on behalf of Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g) <<a href="mailto:sdm7g@virginia.edu">sdm7g@virginia.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 8, 2019 12:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Discontinuing use of "levels of description" labels?</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">In EAD, the hierarchy is fixed, but one of the advantages of linked data is that the elements are movable and reusable in other contexts. We’re not really taking advantage of that
currently in ArchivesSpace, but for the future I think it makes sense to think about those use cases and whether level-of-description might be useful if the archival object is removed from its context. ( For example, organizing artificial or virtual collections
from subsets or multiple archival collections for exhibits or other display purposes — whether that’s done in ArchivesSpace or by another tool importing info from ArchivesSpace. )
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I will also note that we are currently integrating Aeon with ArchivesSpace — currently in testing and not yet in production here, so we don’t have a lot of experience yet, but I
think it may be useful to have level-of-description included in those requests (another instance where you are seeing the info removed from it’s context) and we are considering filtering request so that only the lowest level items are units that can be requested
( although this can be perhaps better implemented just by looking at whether the item has children. )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">On Mar 8, 2019, at 2:29 PM, Jordon Steele <<a href="mailto:jsteele@jhu.edu">jsteele@jhu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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