Seeking Accessions MARC XML import map / more than one agent per accession

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Bowers, Kate A.

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Feb 4, 2026, 4:02:43 PM (7 days ago) Feb 4
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Request:

 

  • Does anyone know how to get more than one agent into a bulk accession ingest without using the API?
  • Does anyone know the whereabouts of documentation on which fields/subfields in MARC become which fields in an AS accession record?

 

Where I’ve looked so far:

 

 

Background (the real problem to address)

 

  • I have about 6000 accession records from two slightly different databases which I wish to ingest into AS.
  • The reason I am even interested in MARC at all is to be able to have two agents (when source and creator are different). I assume that the MARC record import probably has a different shortcoming.
  • If, other than using the API, anyone knows of how to get this data into ArchivesSpace, I would be grateful for your sharing.

 

Thanks,

 

Kate

 

 

 

Kate Bowers (she/her) 

Collections Services Archivist for Metadata, Systems, and Standards

Technical Services for Archives and Special Collections 

 

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Remote: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

 

Martha Tenney

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Feb 6, 2026, 1:39:58 PM (5 days ago) Feb 6
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Hi Kate!

I think the MARCXML > Accession record mapping is a gap in our documentation; I’m going to work on something like the published mappings for MARC > Resources and will share it on the list when it’s ready. 

I don’t know of another non-API way to import multiple agents attached to a single accession in a bulk accession ingest, but I’d be interested to hear if someone else has a method!

Martha


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