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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello, all!<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My institution will be starting a project to migrate our two separate ArchivesSpace instances into a single, shared instance (maintaining multiple repositories). Has anyone else attempted this? I have a feeling that it will involve a
lot of API work and challenges may include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Reconciling duplicate/slightly varying Agents and Subjects<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Potentially losing events, background jobs, and locations of the instance that is migrated<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Potentially losing date and creator information of migrated objects (maybe?)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Anything else?<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s an unenviable project, but it will hopefully be beneficial!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve submitted a Jira ticket about a database migrator – if people have thoughts and opinions, please feel free to comment on this or the list!
<a href="https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-884">https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-884</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On a slightly related note, do people have ideas on how to assess and compare agents and subjects for reconciliation?:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On a slightly further afield question (and unfortunately, one that I’m passing along for a colleague but that I personally don’t have experience with), I wanted to ask if anyone has been able to tweak the LCNAF plug in to direct it to genre
terms as well?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your thoughts and help!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Lydia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Dr. Lydia Tang, CA, DAS, DMA, MLIS<br>
Special Collections Archivist-Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Ethics Librarian<br>
Michigan State University Libraries<br>
366 W. Circle Drive (DB 6)<br>
East Lansing, MI 48824-1048<br>
Email: ltang5@msu.edu<br>
Phone: 517-884-8984<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">She/her/hers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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