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• URL: https://sciencehistory.libraryhost.com/admin/digital_objects/247#tree::digital_object_247

• Digital objects in ArchivesSpace are currently not published; they are invisible to the public.

• Title is the same as the D.C. work title.

• The “digital object” contains as part of its metadata the URL to the “work” in the digital collections.

• The “digital object” is NOT an “archival object”.

• Digital objects were not part of the earliest versions of ArchivesSpace (as item-level description is a fairly uncommon archival practice).

• It is part of what ArchivesSpace calls a “file”.

• The digital object has a link to the work in the digital collections. (The work does not have a link back to the digital object.)

File

• Title is The file is a digital surrogate for a particular manila folder (folder 29 in box 1) which contains the letter.

  • The name is confusing; this has nothing to do with a computer file.

• A file is the lowest level of standard archival description as usually practiced in ArchivesSpace.

• Title: “Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce - Air Pollution Committee, 1951-1954”

• URL: https://archives.sciencehistory.libraryhost.comorg/adminrepositories/resources3/1#tree::archival_object_10615 .Is a digital surrogate for a manila folder (folder 29 in box 1) which contains the letter.objects/10615

• Is an “archival object” (as opposed to a “digital object”).

• Files, sub-series and series are all considered “archival objects”. “Digital objects” and “collections” are not.

• All “archival objects” have a unique ID called a Ref ID.

• The “file” has ref ID 118f36c4c5a373e4b4a81253ebc85fae.

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• Title: Series I. Arnold O. Beckman Files, 1918-2009, undated

• URL: https://sciencehistory.libraryhost.com/admin/resources/1#tree::archival_object_1

• The series is also “archival object” and thus has Ref ID is : 5575406909262fd92cf89083a49f855b

Collections

The series is part of a collection, of course.

Collection

• Title: Beckman Historical Collection

• URL: https://sciencehistory.libraryhost.com/admin/resources/1#tree::resource_1

• External URL:

• The collection is not an “archival object”, but a “resource”.

  • Because of this it does not have a hexadecimal Ref ID.