"view UN-digitized material" use cases?

[Caitlin Goodman]

Hi folks,

With my public services hat on, I'm thinking of researchers who want to consult a collection that is largely or partially digitized/digital, and how they can request the portion of the collection that is only accessed onsite.

It is easy for me to export the bulk update spreadsheet to clean up and send along to a researcher, but from the PUI it seems a little cumbersome for a researcher to determine which boxes/materials need to be consulted onsite.

Do other repositories see a use case for PUI users to view which archival objects within a finding aid have not been digitized? I can write a feature request ticket, but also want to see if I'm missing something obvious first.

Caitlin Goodman (she/her)

Archivist, Friends Historical Library

Swarthmore College

610-690-3349

cgoo...@swarthmore.edu

[Paul Sutherland]

Hi Caitlin,

I do see the use case but this seems very tricky to handle, as you would need to distinguish between:

• records that have no attached Digital Object because they are files/items that are not digitized
• records that have no attached Digital Object because they are organizational (e.g. a Series)

You could get around this by configuring which kinds of records show up, by Level of Description, assuming your collections are very consistent.

Best,

Paul

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