Day 18: ArchivesSpace Clean-up

On today's to-do list:

• Fix the Subject Agent overlap

So after watching a few how-to and summary videos on ArchivesSpace and reviewing the finding aid that Tom had imported into ArchivesSpace, It became apparent that there is a strict divide between subjects and agents.

I figured out that:

• Agents are people or organizations
• People and organizations can take actions and have an active role in the creation of documents in the collection
•  Agents have a direct connection to the collection as either creators or correspondents
• Subjects cover everything else and are taken directly from the Library of Congress's (LoC).
• Subjects can be a document genre such as a manuscript, a typescript, correspondence, or even a holograph.
• Subjects can be geographic locations or area.
• Subjects also cover historic topics and ideas such as Genetics or Heredity.
• Subjects may be used for events as well.

Based on this, I returned to the ArchivesSpace finding aid and reordered the agents and subjects. While doing this, I noticed that you can add the LoC identifier (well actually the web URL associated with that LoC subject heading.