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<p class="xmsonormal">Hi all,</p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">We are formulating a plan to import our 7000+ EAD finding aids into ArchivesSpace and are wondering how other institutions have handled top container ranges.
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<p class="xmsonormal">For example, we have finding aids coded like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><c02><did><container type="box" label="Box">3-4</container><unittitle>Photographs</unittitle></did></c02><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">This imports into ASpace just fine (yay!), but of course also creates a top container for Box 3-4 instead of Box 3 and Box 4 (boo!). We assume this will be an issue later when we integrate with Aeon.
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">The most obvious solution to this problem appears to be to change the encoding to:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><c02><did><container type="box" label="Box">3</container><unittitle>Photographs</unittitle></did></c02></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><c02><did><container type="box" label="Box">4 </container><unittitle>Photographs</unittitle></did></c02><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">For several reasons, this is not a viable solution for us. Have other institutions figured out a way to deal with this issue that does not include editing the EAD in individual finding aids?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your help,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dawne</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Dawne Howard Lucas (she/her/hers)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Technical Services Archivist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Wilson Special Collections Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">200 South Road, CB #3926<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Chapel Hill, NC 27515<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5AA3D2">P</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#6AB4DC"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">919-966-1776</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#4472C4"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5AA3D2">E </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:dawne_lucas@unc.edu">dawne_lucas@unc.edu</a></span><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5AA3D2"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://library.unc.edu/wilson/"><span style="color:#4472C4;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="204" height="35" style="width:2.125in;height:.368in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.png@01D5F200.0D957C80"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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