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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have been trying to understand what to do about cases like the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://sandbox.archivesspace.org/digital_objects/2/edit#tree::digital_object_2">http://sandbox.archivesspace.org/digital_objects/2/edit#tree::digital_object_2</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="1239" height="223" style="width:12.9062in;height:2.3229in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D73512.22D7F220"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As things are now, ArchivesSpace will allow a value like this, but various renderings and transformations will not work as expected. I am wondering if:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">This is a legacy bug; the field should have originally validated values to ensure they were URIs<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">This is a presentation layer bug: non URIs should be allowed in the file_uri field, but HTML and PDF presentations need to accommodate that.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Everything is fine. Users should be able to put whatever they want in file_uri, but if they want it to present right they need to write a plugin.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This isn’t an academic question, as this is currently happening with records created automatically by Preservica software.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brian<o:p></o:p></p>
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