Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Adding hyperlinks to other Resource records within Related Materials note

2021-12-08 Thread Custer, Mark
For internal linking in EAD, you can use the "@target" attribute. There is a feature in the PUI that exploits this, as well. The documentation is a bit rough, but here's a link:

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Digital Object Module Use

2021-08-20 Thread Custer, Mark
Liz, We are starting to work on this as part of the specification for https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-1209 (thanks again to Cory for doing this work!), which focuses on adding digital object thumbnails in a standardized way to both the staff and public interface of ASpace. As

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] normalized begin/end date display in PUI

2021-04-14 Thread Custer, Mark
Benn, Yes, this is a great feature request! It was discussed as part of the PUI enhancement phase for 2.1, but never got added due to the additional work required (e.g., month names would also need to be added to the YML files for translation purposes). It was also hoped that there might

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] AS PUI displaying unpublished content

2021-04-05 Thread Custer, Mark
Lev, Accession records can be published or unpublished in the staff interface, and if the accession records are unpublished, then those records should not show up in the ArchivesSpace PUI. If I recall correctly, though, there was a bug in the initial release of the PUI in ASpace 2.1 that

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Generate PDF Staff side failing - Preservica added content?

2021-04-01 Thread Custer, Mark
Ed, Not exactly. It's not a problem of any HTML encodings in the URL (e.g. %3A for a colon), which should be fine. However, if you go into edit those digital objects in the ASpace staff interface and open the File URI section, you should see something like:

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Generate PDF Staff side failing - Preservica added content?

2021-04-01 Thread Custer, Mark
It looks like Steve’s diagnosis below is spot on. Those links have HTML in them, but you just want the links, so that’s why things aren’t working. Ed, if you have access to run SQL queries against your ArchivesSpace database, I’d start there. Just look for HTML tags in your file version URIs

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PUI indexing issues

2021-03-22 Thread Custer, Mark
Tom, Not sure if it will help (and not sure if you shared your config.rb file in a previous message), but have you tried: * turning off the Solr backups during the re-indexing

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Help suppressing a finding aid section

2021-03-01 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi Bridger, Just a very quick reply, as I haven't had time to look at the newest release of ArchiveSpace, but... 1. Yes, I think you'd need to use a plugin or other mechanism to do this (lots of plugin examples out there, but if you have any questions about that, there are lots of people

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Offsite boxes and ASpace

2021-01-28 Thread Custer, Mark
___ From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org on behalf of Custer, Mark Sent: Friday, November 17, 2017 3:35 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Offsite boxes and ASpace Hi Olivia, Hear, h

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Adding an element with the API

2020-12-18 Thread Custer, Mark
Karen, In addition to Michelle's great advice, if you're adding notes, you'll want to follow the same model of creating the whole note and posting it. Here's an ugly mocked-up example: new_sc_note_content = "Whatever note you're adding" note =

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Disable PUI (public interface)

2020-11-23 Thread Custer, Mark
David, In addition to what Zach and Andrew mentioned, I would also set "pui_indexer_enabled" to false in this case. Also, all the configuration defaults are here: https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/blob/master/common/config/config-defaults.rb. I always have to look at that to

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Sub-subseries custom usage?

2020-10-20 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi, Lev. Short answer: you can select “otherlevel” and then type in “sub-subseries” (even “sub-sub-subseries” and whatever else that’s needed). You might need to update your display code, but that approach would keep the EAD valid. I'm attaching a screenshot for how to do that in

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] setting encodinganalog and other attributes related to XML export

2020-10-11 Thread Custer, Mark
Dear Amanda, There's no way to do this in the staff interface. This could be accomplished with a plugin, however. Alternatively, you could add a transformation step after extracting the EAD file from ArchivesSpace. At Yale, we rely on both approaches. I will usually only take the plugin

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PDF export issue

2020-10-05 Thread Custer, Mark
hivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 3:12 AM To: Archivesspace Users Group mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> Subject: Re: [Archives

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Trouble With API Endpoint ‘create a new job and post input files’

2020-10-01 Thread Custer, Mark
like what I need. I’ll try it out and let you know. Thanks again! Bennett From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> On Behalf Of Custe

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Trouble With API Endpoint ‘create a new job and post input files’

2020-10-01 Thread Custer, Mark
Bennet, Not spammed out, so no worries! In case it helps, a couple years ago I was able to get a hokey script set up (with help from others – thanks again, Dallas and Dave!) to download MARCXML files from OCLC and post those to ArchivesSpace using that endpoint. Here’s a snippet that shows

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Unprocessed Accessions Report

2020-10-01 Thread Custer, Mark
Linda, all: I'd also say that a new report could/should be created that doesn't rely on event records in this case. Adding reports to ASpace is much easier now than it used to be, and I think that having one that relied on the "Processing Status" field in this case would make a lot of sense.

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PDF export issue

2020-09-29 Thread Custer, Mark
To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PDF export issue Yes, a sample would be useful to try to reproduce the issue. It would also be interesting to know if both the staff PDF export and the PUI PDF show the same problems. ― Steve M. On Sep 29, 2

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace RESTful API authentication and access

2020-09-29 Thread Custer, Mark
I'm curious if this has always been the case, as well, but it would seem like it has been. I knew that the repository and location endpoints could be accessed but didn't try any of the rest for some inexplicable reason. Not good to have agent contact details available that way. Given which

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PDF export issue

2020-09-29 Thread Custer, Mark
Dear Hitomi Matsuyama, Which version of ArchivesSpace are you using? I'm not familiar with those configuratio settings, but I suspect that they might just be for the PDF formats of the Reports, not for the PDF format of the EAD conversion process. On newer releases of ArchivesSpace, the

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Agent/Subject record merging in multi-repository setting

2020-09-28 Thread Custer, Mark
Betts, Exactly what Karen and Dan said! I would caution you not to rely exclusively on the staff interface to do this work when working in a multi-repository ASpace installation, though. When we did a similar project, we exported all of the data to external spreadsheets to make the

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Advice about measuring use of specific collections (resources record plus archival objects)

2020-09-09 Thread Custer, Mark
Natalie, When we set our system up, I was hoping that we would use Google Tag Manager (GTM) to do exactly that, but I don't think that we have configured things for that yet (and I've never used Google Tag Manager, so I'm just assuming that it would be feasible to do so ). Given how ASpace

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Non ISO 639-2b languages?

2020-08-25 Thread Custer, Mark
Kevin, What you've done for now sounds like the best option within the current structure of ArchivesSpace. Although ArchivesSpace could be updated with other controlled lists, like ISO-639-3, I'd be curious if it would be possible -- and, more importantly, useful -- to try to adopt the IETF

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Changes to PDF export in 2.8?

2020-08-19 Thread Custer, Mark
on, but it's working for now, which is the important part. Thanks for the help tracking that down. Best, Chris On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 6:12 PM Custer, Mark mailto:mark.cus...@yale.edu>> wrote: Chris, Lora: Okay, so I just did a bit more digging (but not enough yet), and I'd say that there must

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Changes to PDF export in 2.8?

2020-08-18 Thread Custer, Mark
ly important for us to be able to output PDFs directly from the application. Best, Chris On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 1:49 PM Custer, Mark mailto:mark.cus...@yale.edu>> wrote: Chris, No clue if it's related or not, but it looks like a gem that's utilized for XSLT transformations in ASpace w

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Changes to PDF export in 2.8?

2020-08-17 Thread Custer, Mark
Chris, No clue if it's related or not, but it looks like a gem that's utilized for XSLT transformations in ASpace was switched out recently (saxon-xslt -> saxon-rb). I wonder if the new gem (and/or new version of saxon) is more strict, and only now throwing an error because of that? In any

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Odd permissions problem with resources

2020-07-27 Thread Custer, Mark
Bridger, Regarding the first issue, are those two resources "suppressed" by any chance? A suppressed record cannot be seen in the staff interface by most users unless they also have the ability to view suppressed records. Since you mentioned that you could see it as an admin user, that's my

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] version 2.8 release date?

2020-07-14 Thread Custer, Mark
Wendy, I'll let others weigh in about 2.8, but I expect it should be released soon. That said, if you are planning on using the AT to ASpace migration tool (i.e. https://github.com/archivesspace/at-migration), then it looks like you would need to start off with ArchivesSpace 2.6. Once the

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Importing container list

2020-07-06 Thread Custer, Mark
Lisa, The snippet you provided below looks fine. Can you attach an example EAD file? Given the error about the "indicator" missing, though, it's possible that the file has an empty container tag in the EAD (e.g. ). If so, that would likely cause an error since every top container requires a

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] MARCXML Import Error

2020-05-20 Thread Custer, Mark
Eddie, ArchivesSpace requires a few different data elements to be present before a new Resource record can be saved. Based on this error, it looks like the MARC record does not have any date information where the ArchiveSpace MARCXML importer would expect dates to be present (i.e. dates : At

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Mrs. Husband's Name / updates in our ArchivesSpace database

2020-05-19 Thread Custer, Mark
title from a movie reviewer's collection.) Kevin On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:08 PM Custer, Mark mailto:mark.cus...@yale.edu>> wrote: Kevin, I love that approach! Much cleaner to write those queries against the EAD/EAC exports than having to do all of the table joins directly on the datab

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Mrs. Husband's Name / updates in our ArchivesSpace database

2020-05-19 Thread Custer, Mark
records (or at least the URLs to any associated resource records, so we could easily find the relevant bio/hist notes). Our instance of ArchivesSpace is hosted by Lyrasis so we contacted them to ask about it and were told this is "not possible." I found that surprising and wonder if

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Mrs. Husband's Name / updates in our ArchivesSpace database

2020-05-18 Thread Custer, Mark
All, Is anyone else working on Agent-related cleanup projects in ArchivesSpace right now? We’ve got a couple of those going on at Yale, and I wanted to mention one of them on this listserv since I said that I would last night on Twitter . My reasoning was that it would be better to share

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Importing EAD components with multiple sibling top containers

2020-05-13 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi, John! Short answer: yes. But you have to use @id attributes on the containers, otherwise I think that the ASpace importer will assume that the containers are nested (details are defined here for the importer logic,

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Request for Assistance with Troubleshooting EAC-CPF Exports for Agent Persons

2020-04-24 Thread Custer, Mark
2905 cdibella13 (Skype) [ASpaceOrgHomeMedium] From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 9:05 AM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Request for Assistance with Troubleshooting

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Request for Assistance with Troubleshooting EAC-CPF Exports for Agent Persons

2020-04-24 Thread Custer, Mark
James, I haven't had a chance to look into this, but my hunch is that the issue would reside in ArchivesSpace's EAC exporter, not your database. The EAC importer and exporter in ArchivesSpace aren't really finished; you can never (for instance) export a valid EAC record, regardless of the

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] how to find if a certain page was accessed in the PUI

2020-03-25 Thread Custer, Mark
Henry, The server logs will give you one perspective, but another perspective that you can possibly get from a page-tagging approach like Google Analytics would be all of the other stuff that you an configure (e.g. the ability to add tags with Google Tag Manager), which I only bring up since

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] put Google Analytics code snippet in ASpace

2020-03-20 Thread Custer, Mark
Henry, all: We did exactly what Joshua mentioned... added the snippet as provided by Google Tag Manager to the layout_head.html.erb file, and that's it. Just out of curiosity, is anyone using alternatives to Google Analytics, such as https://matomo.org, with their ASpace PUI? Mark

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Better notifying users of digital content presence

2020-02-28 Thread Custer, Mark
Jordon, 1. As far as I know, you would have to do that in a plugin right now. Here's an example, since it's not obvious where one would do that:

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Error Editing an Accession Record Created Using the Accession CSV Import Template

2020-02-26 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi all, Sorry for the extra message. I need to not use Outlook online. I didn't mean to send that message to the whole list. Sorry about that  Mark From: Custer, Mark Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:22 AM To: Carbone, Maura ; Archivesspace Users

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Error Editing an Accession Record Created Using the Accession CSV Import Template

2020-02-26 Thread Custer, Mark
Maura, No problems at all sharing any and all Resource and Archival Object JSON records. The only things that would have confidential info at the Beinecke are Accession JSON records. It looks like the 3 files in "ycal_mss_42" are identical, though (all for the Resource record, though the

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PUI inheritance configuration

2020-02-21 Thread Custer, Mark
Cory, I just tested this out with a new build of ASpace, since I knew this worked before! At first I didn't get it to work either, but that was because I just copied over one of your examples as is. When I looked at the ASpace JSON records, though, I realized that your genreform example just

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Error Generating PDF

2020-01-16 Thread Custer, Mark
PM To: Custer, Mark Cc: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Error Generating PDF Ha! I didn’t even know that was valid EAD! — Steve. On Jan 16, 2020, at 3:48 PM, Custer, Mark mailto:mark.cus...@yale.edu>> wrote: Justin, I just took a quick look, and it a

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Error Generating PDF

2020-01-16 Thread Custer, Mark
Justin, I just took a quick look, and it appears that the issue is due to a nested bioghist note, which ArchivesSpace doesn't support. That nested note is also followed by two more bioghist notes, which look to be complete duplicates of the nested bioghist note. So, short answer: delete

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Tools for batch updating locations in ArchivesSpace during a collections move

2020-01-07 Thread Custer, Mark
info? Just curious! Lydia From: mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> on behalf of "Custer, Mark" mailto:mark.cus...@yale.edu>> Reply-To: Archivesspace Users Group mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> Date: Tuesday

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Tools for batch updating locations in ArchivesSpace during a collections move

2020-01-07 Thread Custer, Mark
Room B22 tel:213-740-8180 From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 11:13 AM

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Tools for batch updating locations in ArchivesSpace during a collections move

2020-01-07 Thread Custer, Mark
Bo, This sounds like a very tricky / fun project! Though I have not gone through the exact same scenario, I have gone through a process of matching containers in finding aids with item records in corresponding MARC records in an ILS. As with most problems of this type, I suspect that you

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Question about Agent Records

2019-12-16 Thread Custer, Mark
du<mailto:gcodding...@mcdaniel.edu> (410) 857-2793 From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Monday, December 16, 20

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Question about Agent Records

2019-12-16 Thread Custer, Mark
Gwen, Which version of ArchivesSpace are you on? Here’s an example of an agent record in the PUI that uses both the Dates of Existence subrecord (for specific birth and death dates) aas the date field in the Names subrecord: https://archives.yale.edu/agents/people/81438 Also, have you tried

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Archivists' Toolkit to ArchivesSpace Migration Workflow

2019-12-10 Thread Custer, Mark
Corey, First of all, welcome to the ArchivesSpace community! Your project will definitely make you an ArchivesSpace expert in no time. Glancing at your workflow document, it looks like you’ve got all of your bases covered. I would strongly suggest running the AT to ASpace migration a couple

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] importing EAD files

2019-11-22 Thread Custer, Mark
ASpaceContainerManagement, which provides a great introduction, along with videos! Mark From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Friday, 22 November, 2019 1

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] importing EAD files

2019-11-22 Thread Custer, Mark
From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 9:34 AM To: Archivesspace

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] importing EAD files

2019-11-22 Thread Custer, Mark
Jennifer, If you can share a sample EAD file that isn't uploading, someone might be able to pinpoint the issue that way if the error is in fact due to the file itself. Additionally, have you tried uploading the file to http://test.archivesspace.org/staff/? If you can upload it successfully

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Repository record and corresponding agent representation

2019-11-20 Thread Custer, Mark
Julie, Not sure if this is what you're asking about or not, but the following SQL query would return all of the repository IDs along with their corresponding corporate agent IDs: SELECT r.id AS 'repository id', r.agent_representation_id as 'agent id', r.repo_code, r.name,

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Help using AS Restful API to query

2019-11-08 Thread Custer, Mark
the additional pointers. (And sorry for high-jacking your thread, Steve!) On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 8:20 AM Custer, Mark mailto:mark.cus...@yale.edu>> wrote: Seth, Here’s another example: search?type[]=archival_object=1= { "query": { "op":

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Help using AS Restful API to query

2019-11-08 Thread Custer, Mark
Seth, Here’s another example: search?type[]=archival_object=1= { "query": { "op": "AND", "subqueries": [ { "field": "keyword", "value": "39002102378974", "jsonmodel_type": "field_query", "negated":

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] trying to remove several links in PUI

2019-08-14 Thread Custer, Mark
: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 8:51 AM To: Archivesspace

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] ID [Archivists Toolkit Database::RESOURCE]

2019-08-05 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi Ed, Those external IDs were added to the core code of the ArchivesSpace EAD exporter at some point, which can result in some surprises (see the references to "external_id" here https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/blob/master/backend/app/converters/ead_converter.rb#L139-L162 ).

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] barcode validation for ASpace

2019-06-24 Thread Custer, Mark
Benn, Alex is exactly right. At Yale, we use the length configuration to help ensure a basic level of validity (one of our repositories has 9 character barcodes, and the rest have 14 character barcodes). I can also add that during the development of the top container module, I was hopeful

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Rights Statement on public user interface

2019-05-19 Thread Custer, Mark
Dear Freya, Unfortunately that's right. The rights statement records (as well as some other record types, like event records) do not appear in the public interface as far as I'm aware. They also do not get added to EAD exports (although they could, if there were a mapping for that data).

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Unable to view collections (public interface) after upgrading from 1.5.1 to 2.5.2

2019-04-15 Thread Custer, Mark
Patrick, Just taking a quick look at this, I wonder if the issue might have something to do with the relationship between the repository record and its corresponding corporate agent record? Do both of those records (the repository record and the corporate agent record associated with the repo

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] adding controlled value to multipart note

2019-04-11 Thread Custer, Mark
Lydia, ArchivesSpace has a variety of "uneditable" controlled value lists that not even administrators can edit in the application (the ability to suppress unused values from uneditable lists was added after the initial release of ArchivesSpace, which is a great feature, but that won't help

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Extent Total

2019-02-26 Thread Custer, Mark
Danielle, I’ve had to do something similar recently, so I’ve pared down the query that I used to just grab a few bits of data in the Resource table and then combine that with any extent information associated with those Resource records. The output is one row per Resource. If the Resource

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Resource records not showing up

2019-01-27 Thread Custer, Mark
Chelsee, In case you don't have immediate access to the server to force a full re-index, check out the Background Job pages (or Import Job pages, depending on which version of ASpace you're using). Even though the job can have a status of "Completed," it's possible that no records were

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] The ArchivesSpace PUI in 2019

2019-01-23 Thread Custer, Mark
Happy New Year, and happy Wednesday: I wanted to follow up on this blog post, https://archivesspace.org/archives/2534, now that Yale is using the ArchivesSpace Public Interface in production. Every once in a while, I run a few online searches to see who else is using the public interface.

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] when component has multiple container instances, PDF displays only the last one

2019-01-15 Thread Custer, Mark
Julie, It looks to me like this works as expected in a vanilla instance of the ASpace PUI. See http://test.archivesspace.org/repositories/2/resources/45 (complete aside: it's great that LYRASIS keeps this test site up, especially for testing purposes!). I just mocked up an example, and here

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PUI question: external indexing of container list tree link text

2019-01-04 Thread Custer, Mark
John, Exactly what Steve said! As an aside, one thing that I thought about (quite a while back now, I guess it was) was adding those mappings to the JSON-LD metadata that are currently only applied on Resource, Repository, and Agent pages within the PUI (if you view the source of a Resource

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Problems with Accessions CSV upload

2018-12-20 Thread Custer, Mark
record, but that one record is giving > me the same error message as the full sheet. > > > Caitlin > > > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 2:09 PM Custer, Mark wrote: > > Caitlin, > > > > It looks like that error means that the conversion process is try

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Problems with Accessions CSV upload

2018-12-20 Thread Custer, Mark
Caitlin, It looks like that error means that the conversion process is trying to replace some text (using “sub”), but there’s no text there at the point that it’s trying to do the replacement (hence the “nil” part). Hard to say exactly what would be causing that without seeing the CSV file,

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Another Reordering Question

2018-11-27 Thread Custer, Mark
Miloche, That is some first-rate documentation! Thank you. I almost always forget how to select multiple adjacent records since I so rarely do that (and switching between CTRL and Shift is not so intuitive, and I always try to start with the Shift key). I’m going to print out your email and

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Bibliography note not displaying in PUI

2018-11-27 Thread Custer, Mark
...@lyralists.lyrasis.org on behalf of Custer, Mark Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:23:13 AM To: archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Bibliography note not displaying in PUI Stephen, This looks like a bug to me. I haven't had much time

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Bibliography note not displaying in PUI

2018-11-27 Thread Custer, Mark
Stephen, This looks like a bug to me. I haven't had much time to look into it, but I have managed to replicate the issue and it appears to affect both the PUI *and* the EAD exports, as you note. The second part is very strange, since I know that I've tested those notes via EAD exports a few

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Print to PDF job failing

2018-11-26 Thread Custer, Mark
al Message- From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 3:42 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Print to PDF job failing Zach, No, sorry. That bit of SQL was run against the

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Print to PDF job failing

2018-11-26 Thread Custer, Mark
that SQL block? I do not see a way to edit the XML from within AS itself, so I'm thinking that leaves the mysql DB or through the API. Regards, Zach -Original Message- From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 2

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Print to PDF job failing

2018-11-26 Thread Custer, Mark
DHXMsIicCSA%3Dreserved=0 It would be great if you could include in the tags “ATMigrator.” Thanks! Lydia -on behalf of Dev. Pri. From: on behalf of "Custer, Mark" Reply-To: Archivesspace Users Group Date: Monday, November 26, 2018 at 12:36 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: R

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Print to PDF job failing

2018-11-20 Thread Custer, Mark
Zach, I'd suggest exporting the EAD file and taking a look at the file that way (and I'd be happy to take a look if you can send it to me). Those "ns2" namespace prefixes are likely from Archivist's Toolkit, which at some point started appending that prefix for the xlink namespace (which is

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Alma Integration

2018-10-31 Thread Custer, Mark
Adrien, Susan, Vernica, and all: Add me to the interested list!  We are not using Alma right now, but since we will eventually migrate from our current ILS to another one that has a robust API, I’d love to keep up with what other institutions are doing. I’ll also say that my thoughts on the

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] collection info appearing in child entries once published

2018-10-18 Thread Custer, Mark
David, This is the result of some new inheritance features that have been added to the public interface (and its index). Here's a bit more info:

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Access term plugins

2018-10-11 Thread Custer, Mark
Nancy, Just a quick note to say, primarily, HEAR, HEAR!!!  Now, as for tips, I’d also suggest that “shared terms” just cannot be reviewed in the staff interface at this time, even if you switch repositories like a pro with multiple browsers. The reason: what you see in the “Linked Records”

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Auto stemming search results on AS 2.5

2018-10-08 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi, Aditi. So, I don’t know how best to approach this, but I can say how we’ve approached this at Yale for the time being. We’ve updated our solr/schema.xml file to use the Krovetz stemmer, which is a non-aggressive stemmer that works well for the English language since it’s primarily

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Maximum finding aid size

2018-10-05 Thread Custer, Mark
Kevin, In addition to what Nancy and Steve have already mentioned, I'll add a few other things to consider about the size of the records: • Right now, a note cannot exceed 65k characters in ArchivesSpace. The overall file might not even be that large, but if you have any really, really,

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Unprocessed label on processed accessions

2018-09-28 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi Nic, I can’t speak to reports, but as for the ArchivesSpace Public User Interface, published accession records will always show up right now. In other words, until the “Publish?” checkbox is not selected, it gets indexed in the PUI. We’ve just started publishing accession records in one of

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Finding Air Filing Title sort [was: Yale Library ASpace PUI Usability Testing Final Report + Results]

2018-08-02 Thread Custer, Mark
. ( Because making changed directly in MySQL bypasses the indexer notifications. ) Also a lot more efficient if you’ve got a lot of resources. — Steve. On Aug 2, 2018, at 2:56 PM, Custer, Mark mailto:mark.cus...@yale.edu>> wrote: That’s actually a really good use case for using the ASpa

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Yale Library ASpace PUI Usability Testing Final Report + Results

2018-08-02 Thread Custer, Mark
e_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2018 11:00 AM To: Archivesspace Users Group mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org>> Subject: Re: [Arc

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Bug? Public interface Container Inventory pagination + facets

2018-07-03 Thread Custer, Mark
Rachel, Yep, it looks like that’s a new bug that you’ve uncovered and diagnosed (I’ve also seen something strange happening with the container3/grandchild container filters on those pages, but I haven’t gone back to investigate what’s going on there just yet). I just confirmed the same

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace failing to export resource to PDF

2018-06-26 Thread Custer, Mark
Thomas, If you could send me a copy of the EAD file, I can take a look this afternoon (I'm working on a new process to create PDF files in ASpace using the new EAD3 export option, but I have the current ASpace PDF files handy for testing). The issue is definitely that the current EAD to PDF

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] EAD import extents mapping

2018-06-22 Thread Custer, Mark
template really only expects physdesc elements with a single extent child. Mark From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Friday, 22 June, 2018 8:50 AM To: Archivesspace Users Group

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] EAD import extents mapping

2018-06-22 Thread Custer, Mark
John, What I think that you'd want to do in this case is to modify the EAD so that it looks like the following: 15.0 linear_feet (36 boxes + oversize folder) Two important points about this: 1. The ASpace EAD importer uses the database values for controlled value fields, which is why

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] EAD Importer and DAOs

2018-05-26 Thread Custer, Mark
Brian, Tim: In my opinion, the entire digital object module deserves a review, and that would include both EAD imports and exports (in those exports, for example, the digital object title is repeated as both an @xlink:title AND a daodesc/p; and worse yet, the ASpace required identifier isn't

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] overriding default citation text in the PUI

2018-05-17 Thread Custer, Mark
Hopefully someone else can chime in with an actual answer about how to do this via a plugin, but outside of the views, I've had more success overriding things in the PUI with a custom build. And with the citation feature, you might also need to check out this bit, which is where the URL +

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Configuration question for 2.3.0

2018-04-09 Thread Custer, Mark
All, To follow up on this thread, and in case it helps anyone else, here's an example configuraiton that I just tested since I needed to implement a similar configuration and ran into a few issues the first time around: AppConfig[:pui_hide][:accession_badge] = true

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Configuring barcode digits?

2018-03-16 Thread Custer, Mark
Rachel, all: It was documented in the plugin. I still refer to that documentation here: https://github.com/hudmol/container_management#configuring-it But it should be added to the core documentation, of course! Mark From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Do you agree it's important to be able to customize URLs/create PURLs in the PUI?

2018-01-27 Thread Custer, Mark
Celia, I wish that this could’ve been accomplished with the initial release of the PUI, but there were a number of issues that didn’t allow that to happen (and I’m not sure of all of the technical issues, to be quite honest). However, at Yale, we will be setting up re-directs from our current

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] data clean up of Top Container "titles"

2018-01-27 Thread Custer, Mark
Lydia, See the very last section, Identifier Encoding, at the bottom of this page: https://guides.library.yale.edu/archivesspace/ASpaceContainerManagement This is documentation from the original top container plugin, but the same holds true now in the core code. Things will look much looker

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Error when saving records in 2.2.2

2018-01-02 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi, Trevor: I don’t think that we’ve seen this particular issue, but we did have another issue when upgrading from 1.5.x to 2.x which I’ll mention here in case it’s of any use in your circumstance. For us, the issue was simply a plugin. In our case, whenever we saved a record after

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] batch delete dates saga continues

2017-11-10 Thread Custer, Mark
Lydia, In the EAD files that you attached, both have invalid XML characters in them (Unicode: 0x14). Those are easy to remove before re-importing in an XML editor like oXygen, but I'm curious how they got into ASpace in the first place? In any event, it's possible that that's what's

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Components not displaying in one of our repositories

2017-11-06 Thread Custer, Mark
Hi Lisa, I’ve no clue what could be causing this, but others have reported the issue as well. Hopefully the root cause of the issue can be identified with enough eyes on the problem. So far, I haven’t seen this happen in Yale’s TEST PUI instance (on 2.1.2) or on our DEV instance (on version

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PUI & Digital Objects links

2017-11-03 Thread Custer, Mark
Annie, The PUI still has a way to go with integrating digital objects, but the gist is that right now to get the red Digital Record icon badge, you’ll need to use that URI as a File URI subrecord, rather than (or in addition to) the Digital Record identifier. Here’s a bit more info:

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing the Public Interface PDF

2017-11-01 Thread Custer, Mark
[mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Custer, Mark Sent: Wednesday, 01 November, 2017 3:38 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org> Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing the Public Interface PDF S

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Customizing the Public Interface PDF

2017-11-01 Thread Custer, Mark
Stephen, It looks like you’re using HTML elements there (e.g. span and q), and although the new PUI PDF process converts the ASpace JSON to HTML which is in turn converted to PDF, I don’t think that it expects to find HTML tags. Given that this process is converting to HTML anyway, though,

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