Dear Natalie,

First off, welcome!

Your mention of our training materials and the implications of this particular 
permission for the UK Data Protection Act and GDPR made us look to see what was 
happening in the application. As far as we can tell, all permission levels with 
access to view agent records have been able to view the contact details part of 
the record. This is clearly not what was intended, given how this was written 
up for the purposes of training and the user manual. And we know it's an even 
more important feature now given international laws around securing personal 
information.

I'm pleased to say that one of our developers was able to determine what was 
wrong and to add a specific permission for viewing the contact details part of 
an agent record. This permission will be automatically included for the 
out-of-the-box permission levels above Advanced Data Entry users and also 
selectable if high level users want to include it for other permission groups 
(and de-selectable if people don't want it included for the permission groups 
for which it comes automatically). This feature will need additional testing, 
but assuming it passes muster, we anticipate including it in our next release, 
which will come out later in the summer. We've added a JIRA issue 
(https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-910) and work can be tracked 
there.

Thanks for bringing this oversight to our attention. We typically can't make 
changes to the application as quickly as this, but I'm glad it was possible in 
this case.

Christine

Christine Di Bella
ArchivesSpace Program Manager
christine.dibe...@lyrasis.org<mailto:christine.dibe...@lyrasis.org>
800.999.8558 x2905
678-235-2905
cdibella13 (Skype)

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From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org 
<archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> On Behalf Of na207
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 10:11 AM
To: archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Users with basic data entry credentials 
and access to agent contact details

Dear all,

This is my first message to the user group- I've been making great use of the 
list's archives and am hoping someone may be able to help with my question.

I'm working through issues concerning sharing personal data about living 
individuals in ArchivesSpace- seeking to ensure that personal data is only 
accessible and shared if necessary and appropriate to comply with the UK Data 
Protection Act and GDPR.

We were lucky enough to receive 2 days training on ArchivesSpace last summer 
and our training notes about the types of user record set out the following :



Basic Data Entry Staff: Has no application customization permissions; is unable 
to read or write name contact information; has read-only access to Accession, 
Digital Object, Agent, and Subject records, has read/write permissions on 
Resource records.

I have just set up a test user account and given it basic data entry 
privileges. When I log in as that user I can view (but not edit) agent records 
including contact information. The agent records have been created by the 
repository to which the test user belongs but the test user can also see 
contact details of agents created by another repository.

I have looked at the 'manage groups' menu to check what basic data entry users 
can do, and found that the following boxes only are checked:- create/update 
resources in this repository; create/update digital objects in this repository; 
view the records in this repository; create and run a background job. It 
doesn't look as though there is another box I could tick to limit access to 
contact information.

I may be missing something obvious but is there a way to limit access to 
contact information in ArchivesSpace? I would be very grateful for any 
assistance,

Best wishes,

Natalie


Natalie Adams
Systems Archivist
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge
Cambridge, CB3 9DR
Tel 01223 766377
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/<http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/>
Normal working days are Monday-Wednesday

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