Hello all,

I'm new to the talk list - just joining on from the Oakland Museum of CA. We are interested in trying out CSpace and are hoping to load a chunk of data from our ARGUS database that was previously extracted for our online collections site, so that people can test out the system with some of our data. We are following the configuration steps available on the documentation site, and are at the step of creating and configuring our new tenant. When we clicked on the link to check out the UI source code, we got this message:

Page level restrictions have been applied to a parent of the current page. These restrictions limit access to only certain certain user(s) or group(s) and apply to all pages in the hierarchy underneath the parent.

We are working on getting Subversion installed, but do you know how we can view the code?

My second question has to do with the data map templates available here:

http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/deploy/Data+Map+Templates

I also have a question about the data mapping templates. We have a CSV file from ARGUS that contains record data such as object ID, dimensions, descriptions, and other cataloging info, and we wanted to try loading this into Cspace as a test. When we're mapping our data, does the template describe data elements, does it contain the data elements itself? For example, is the template used to map the ARGUS term "Object ID" to the CSpace term "Object Number"? Or is it used to map ARGUS object IDs (all 10,000 in the file we have) to somewhere in the CSpace database?

Thank you so much for any ideas/help you have!

Al Bersch
Digital Project Coordinator
Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA 94607
abersch@museumca.org
510-318-8468