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If you import a collection from an EAD file then any <i>persname</i>, <i>famname</i> and
<i>corpname</i> it contains will be converted into agent records (the ones not already in the system with precisely the same spelling and source - any small differences will created duplicates) and linked to the resource and/or its child archival objects.<br>
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If your collections aren't encoded in EAD, it might be worth evaluating whether doing a one-off conversion of the one with the thousands of agents to EAD would be worthwhile, because I believe any method of pre-loading a batch of agents first will then require
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Also be sure to set your repository and/or global preferences to publish by default first if you want all the agents to be visible in the public user interface. And you may need to force a full re-index afterwards.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Cox, Elizabeth
J <beth-cox@uiowa.edu><br>
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<b>To:</b> 'archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org' <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Archivesspace_Users_Group] batch importing Agents</font>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Greetings! Is there a way to batch import Agents into ArchivesSpace?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">I am working on ingesting the metadata for a large collection into ArchivesSpace. This collection has thousands of personal and corporate names that will need to be added as well. I searched the list archives and found references
to a plug-in that doesn’t appear to be current. Or, if it is, I found an older link.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Any help would be greatly appreciated!</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Beth</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Elizabeth J. “Beth” Cox<br>
Head, Cataloging-Metadata Department<br>
University of Iowa Libraries<br>
5024 MAIN LIB<br>
Iowa City, IA 52242<br>
(319) 335-6204</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">ORCID: </span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black; background:white">0000-0002-4251-7775</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">(pronouns: she, her, hers)</span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.”
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">¯ Carole Nelson Douglas</span></p>
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