About 70% of the spreadsheet is in EAD format now. It’s on the github repository but I haven’t indexed it on the website because it needs extensive cleanup. Names especially are not consistent.
I’ve installed ArchivesSpace locally to help me with that. That installation was straightforward, but when I tried to load the 70%-done EAD I found out that AS has different standards for EAD validity than Arclight does. Naturally, a hand-coded 1.5 mb file had many rought spots and AS choked on those. I spent the evening fixing and, by mdinight, had a parsable file to load.
I’ll finish up the last 30%, load it in, and use AS’s handy user interface to clean up the names and subjects. It’ll take a while, but it’ll be straightforward, and much easier than by hand.
