Legacy export/import

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Issues related to exporting the legacy BCAUL data and importing it into ICA-AtoM


 * Repository database (~180 records) & BCAUL archival description dbase (~10,000 records)
 * XML tagged export will be the method used for the migration
 * need to do a search and replace on all element names that include a blank space to eliminate the space (otherwise XML won't validate)


 * Repository database
 * finished custom Repository dbase import mapping
 * strategy to deal with embedded HTML style tags  &  & 
 * solution: Search and Replace with <!CDATA > tags, preserves all the HTML markup
 * removed any www.aabc.rep_bc/display? links (used in  tags to point users to individual repository listings)


 * BCAUL dbase
 * same issues with embedded HTML tags as Repo dbase
 * Mapping to do:
 * PartOf field (link to parent id)
 * Names (duplicates the provenance link but also contains multi-values, seperated by semi-colon
 * OnlineFindingAid - where to map?
 * Provenace (dates are included in the Provenance string, need to clean-up)
 * Source of Title note
 * Dates (need editable events to split-up multi-values)


 * issue with file size (16MB) and XML import. Need to strip down into smaller files.