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As a user, I want to be able to ingest non-catalogued items into Figgy #4233

Closed cwulfman closed 3 years ago

cwulfman commented 4 years ago

Use case: I have a collection of digitized items that are not in the catalog but have detailed bibliographic metadata in MODS. I want to be able to ingest them into Figgy without associating them with a BibID or a Finding Aid.

tpendragon commented 4 years ago

We need to talk about this in a longer form format. Maybe @cwulfman or @kelea99 can put together a meeting? According to the Archival Description in Figgy working group, all items which have a finding aid should have item-level finding aid metadata. In cases where there isn't, a data reconciliation project should be undertaken (much as was done for western americana.) You can find the report here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pkhMDZcumPWgfSBiFzkTzaEVpuvwTMJMHuzW-UoDrCc/edit

As a historical note, we've put a lot of effort into trying to not turn Figgy into a cataloguing system, largely because good ones exist already and the danger is that we'd just make a bad one that doesn't reflect the training and expertise of our cataloguers. This has shown to be true with some metadata being entered into Ephemera, for instance.

kelea99 commented 4 years ago

@tpendragon , sure. Ill schedule something for us. this is a helpful document, thank you

tpendragon commented 3 years ago

@kelea99 Can we close this issue?

kelea99 commented 3 years ago

yup. closed @tpendragon