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Adding Connections Directly to Resources #225

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dinaherbert opened this issue Sep 10, 2019 · 0 comments
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Adding Connections Directly to Resources #225

dinaherbert opened this issue Sep 10, 2019 · 0 comments

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It would be great to be able to add CPF links directly to the resource pages. It would save editors a lot of time when adding in new finding aid links and also possibly help with the ingest of new materials.

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd love a button, similar to the Holding Repository Search, in the resources edit page (from the other entities/manage resources dash) to link finding aids directly to related CPFs.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Right now, it's cumbersome to add all the additional CPFs found in a finding aid (especially for the really well processed collections!): an editor has to go into each individual constellation.

There would, obviously, be some issues. If a constellation didn't exist in SNAC for a CPF an editor would have to "bookmark" it and create a new constellation and then still add the resource & its relationship (referencedIn, creatorOf). For records that need merging this would be another consideration, although you already have to consider this for merging in general. I just think this would save a great deal (really, a great deal!) of time and also encourage editors to edit directly in the manage resources pages. That could be helpful as we update worldcat links or make something DigitalArchivalResources, etc.

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Here are some examples that came up when I was editing Mary Watson Whitney's record earlier.

I edited a broken link to Maria Mitchell's papers at Vassar College.

SNAC resource Page
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There are 5 CPF relations for this collection.

If you look at the Vassar Finding Aid, you'll see there are WAY more than 5 CPF relations.
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And several of these CPFs are in SNAC (example: Oliver, James Edward 1829-1895, Taylor, James Monroe, 1848-1916, Vassar College. Observatory) Although this isn't the best example; there are links to most of these through some dead WorldCat links for Mitchell's papers, but you get the idea.

If there was a search similar to the holdings institution for connections that would be great.
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If could just reverse what we do with the add resource in the individual constellation page
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