Support for identifying external source records

SAA-SDT / EAS-Best-Practices

The Encoded Archival Standards: Best Practice Guide is a resource that describes and provides explanations and examples of complex encodings and concepts in EAC-CPF and EAD. Created and maintained by SAA TS-EAS, the guide is intended to be a living resource that will be built on and developed over time.

https://saa-sdt.github.io/EAS-Best-Practices/

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Support for identifying external source records #7

Open alexduryee opened 1 year ago

alexduryee commented 1 year ago

Creator of issue

Alex Duryee
alexanderduryee@nypl.org

The issue relates to

[ ] EAC-CPF schema issue
[ ] EAC-CPF Tag Library issue
[ ] EAD schema issue
[ ] EAD Tag Library issue
[ ] Schema issue
[ ] Tag Library issue
[ ] Suggestions for all schemas
[ ] Suggestions for all Tag Libraries
[x] Other

Wanted change/feature

Text: During discussion regarding SNAC/ArchivesSpace integration, there was a use case for including a source instance of an EAD document. For example, if a user generates a finding aid from a SNAC Resource record, there is no way to identify the source record in the new instance. This may also be an issue for aggregators, which have derived copies of EAD instances from harvested sources.

kerstarno commented 1 year ago

Hi @alexduryee,

question for clarification: was this looking at EAD 2002 or EAD3? Follow-up question: if this was looking at EAD3, couldn’t the <source> element within <control> be used for this?

Would be great if you could answer these two questions ahead of the Washington meeting and - in case that EAD3 was used as a basis - explain in a little more detail, why <source> wasn't considered useful?

Thanks.

fordmadox commented 1 year ago

BPG possibility: show an example of how this can be done using <maintenanceEvent> with @maintenanceEventType derived and having a <reference> in <eventDescription> if one wanted to point to the source.

kerstarno commented 1 year ago

TS-EAS discussed this issue in the context of the EAD revision meeting in Washington, DC, on 24 July with the result as mentioned in the previous comment. With this, this issue is more of a Best Practices Guide issue than a schema issue and will be transferred to the EAS-Best-Practices repository.

deletedname commented 4 months ago

If someone can send me some example code for this, I'll add it to BPG