[Archon-L] Collection Custom Fields

[dlaughla at purdue.edu]

At Purdue, we don't have an archival policy, so we don't have very many
collections to create finding aids for; just the "campus celebrities," as it
were. We've typically included appendices with a page or two of biographical
information as well as lists of publications, films, or other relevant
information to researchers.

Archon has a generic "Other information" field, but we'd like to have several of
those, with field titles we can edit. That feature exists on the
series/box/folder level, but not on the collection level from what I can tell.
They don't need to appear in the EAD output (since there isn't really a place
for them) but we would like to display them in the public interface.

I could dive into the code and figure out how to add them myself (preparing
myself for an aneurysm come upgrade time), but I'm wondering if there's an
easier way, or if you were planning to add that in the next version anyways.

Thanks,
Daniel Laughland
dlaughla at purdue.edu
Purdue University Libraries
Archives and Special Collections
http://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol