<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
</head>
<body>
<p>I'd recommend converting to EAD first, then importing that. TEI
is a highly flexible and customizable schema, so writing a direct
importer would be difficult, and unlikely to work for all the
different styles and standards of TEI created by different
projects. In some cases, it might require pulling together bits of
information from different parts of the TEI document, which would
be almost impossible with the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_API_for_XML">SAX
parser</a> used by ArchivesSpace's importer.<br>
</p>
<p>Also each TEI document would have to correspond one-to-one with
something which you would want to become a resource in
ArchivesSpace. If that is the case, I'd still convert to EAD
first, using XSLT. If instead you've got lots of TEI files, each
representing individual items in a collection, then XQuery would
be my choice to build one EAD file from multiple source TEI files.
But any programming language with a DOM parser library could do
it.<br>
</p>
<p>Whatever tools you use, the intermediate step of converting to
EAD, which you can then validate, should find most of the data
issues, and in bulk, whereas the importer fails on each problem,
and has to be re-run to find the next one.<br>
</p>
<p>The TEI and EAD catalogues here exist side-by-side. Originally
they covered different eras and specialisms, but a recent <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2019/11/29/a-new-project-in-archives-and-modern-manuscripts-the-conversion-of-the-bodleians-summary-catalogue-of-western-manuscripts/">summary
catalogue conversion project</a> has greatly increased the
overlap. The plan is to link them together using ARKs.<br>
</p>
<p>Andrew.<br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/09/2021 12:26, Natalie Adams
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:LO2P265MB5183D300064F3E5C2B6553C2B3A39@LO2P265MB5183.GBRP265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered
medium)">
<style>@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}</style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">Good afternoon everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve been looking at the TEI data we have
about some of our collections and I wondered whether anyone on
the list has experience or resources to share about TEI.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’d be interested in information about
importing TEI data (or a subset of TEI data) into
ArchivesSpace- either directly or by converting into one of
the formats that can be ingested into ArchivesSpace. Also in
information/experience of maintaining TEI metadata and
ArchivesSpace metadata that are describing the same materials.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Natalie<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Natalie
Adams, FARA</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Metadata
Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Cambridge
University Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">West
Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Cambridge,
CB3 9DR <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tel
01223 766377 <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.lib.cam.ac.uk/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<br>
<fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset>
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">_______________________________________________
Archivesspace_Users_Group mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Archivesspace_Users_Group@lyralists.lyrasis.org">Archivesspace_Users_Group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group">http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group</a>
</pre>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>