Describing web archives has more specific steps than general description. You will need to describe the web archives both in ArchivesSpace and in Archive-It (the main tool we use to capture websites). The steps below in each section follow the guidance in the DDC Web Archiving Metadata Application Profile and the relevant sections of the finding aid.
Archive-It
In Archive-It, you can download a spreadsheet of the metadata for all of the seeds for a collection. This is how we will generally edit metadata rather than going through the web interface.
Open the spreadsheet
If this is just after downloading, remove any seeds that have already been described fully, leaving the headers and the row with only urls (the digital archivist will do this before handing it off if being described by someone else).
Enter in information in at least the required fields as described in the DDC Web Archiving Metadata Application Profile. The headers in the spreadsheet should remain as what was downloaded. If you need an additional field (for those repeatable). Insert a column and copy the necessary header.
The digital archivist will supply the Identifier_CollectionID field and the Appraisal_Information field.
Examples of description can be found here and here as well as the standard rights statements for both MC and AC collections (see the Identifier_CollectionID field).
Once complete, save the document, making sure it remains as an open document spreadsheet (ods) file.
The digital archivist will use the file and upload it to Archive-It.
ArchivesSpace
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Once the description is complete in Archive-It, we also need to add this description in ArchivesSpace at the File/Folder level.
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