Location Records

Location records can describe any storage location; buildings, rooms shelves, file cabinets, etc. Location records are designed to track both the permanent and temporary locations of materials.

Location records are intended for physical spaces and not storage of digital AIP’s / files. Locations for AIP’s are managed via Administration/Media Information / Storage mediums

Creating and managing location records

Locations are managed in the location section of ESSArchs Archival Description Management section.

Creating a new top location record

To create a new top location, click the “Add Location” button and fill in the form

Description of form fields

Name	The name used for the location. Either a arbitrary string value like “Central Repository” or an identifier like 1.2.7
Metric	The metric value used to describe capacity
Capacity	An Integear value of the locations total capacity
Level	The level (type) of location, e.g. bulding, floor, room, cabinet etc.
Function	The locations function e.g permanent for archival storage and temporary for reading rooms

Adding sub locations

A top level location can have an unlimited set of nested childrens. To add a new sub location right click a node in the location tree and select “Add” and fill in the form.

Linking containers (boxes) to locations

The linking of materials to a specific location is managed through a specific Archival description. You can either select multiple containers by checkboxes in the archival description tree and clicking the shortcut button “Link to location”.

The Linking can also be done by right clicking a container in the tree and select “Link to location”

In the modal form, select the desired location in the tree and hit select to save the location link

The linked location is now visible from the containers detail view. The locations detail view shows all containers registred.

Moving containers to a new location

Containers can be moved between locations by selecting the containers in the table of the locations detail view and hitting the “Link to new location” button. By holding down shift button while clicking enables you to select multiple containers to be moved.

Managing vocabularies

The vocabularies used for location levels, functions and metric types can be managed through ESSArchs Administration interface.