Hi Peter, A few years ago I wrote a script for this purpose: https://gist.github.com/jambun/553434b0e81644a53229
May be useful. A couple of caveats: - The uneditable enumerations are generally uneditable for good reason. - Things may have changed. Cheers, James > On Nov 26, 2019, at 4:03 PM, Collopy, Peter S. <pcoll...@caltech.edu> wrote: > > Hi all. Here at Caltech we’re experimenting with using ArchivesSpace agent > records in order to link together our information and holdings related to > Caltech people across several digital and tangible repositories. One key > piece of information is what relationship each individual had to Caltech > (typically one or more of faculty, student, staff, trustee). It makes sense > to us to do this using Related Agents subrecords of the agent, with an > associative relationship between each individual and a Corporate Entity agent > record representing Caltech as an organization. It also makes sense to us to > use the Relationship Type field as a controlled vocabulary of these specific > relationships individuals have with Caltech. > > The agent_relationship_associative_relator controlled value list, though, is > one of the ones which is configured to be uneditable in ArchivesSpace. I > understand from past emails in this list (specifically Adam Jazairi and > Alexander Duryee’s emails on March 8, 2018) that it’s possible to make these > uneditable lists editable. I have two questions I’d appreciate help with from > anyone knowledgable, then: > > 1. How does one make these lists editable? I don’t see anything in config.rb. > Does it require more direct interaction with the database? Am I overlooking > something? > > 2. Would extending this particular controlled value list cause any problems > for exports to standard formats? Agents only export to EAC-CPF. It looks like > the exporter puts the relator (currently the default, “is_associative_with”) > in cpfRelationType, which doesn’t look right from the EAC-CPF spec to me, but > it doesn’t seem like it would cause problems to put “is_faculty_of” or the > link there instead—if we even have a reason to export EAC-CPF. > > Thanks for any thoughts! > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > Archivesspace_Users_Group mailing list > Archivesspace_Users_Group@lyralists.lyrasis.org > http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group > > > !DSPAM:5ddd9318170751320666540! _______________________________________________ Archivesspace_Users_Group mailing list Archivesspace_Users_Group@lyralists.lyrasis.org http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group
