The short version:
You can validate your EAD files in bulk before importing them into ArchivesSpace. Essentially, there’s an easy way to do this and a hard way. The easy way requires that you have the oXygen XML Editor. With that, just add as many EAD files you want to an oXygen project and then validate them all in one step. I’m not going to give detailed instructions on how to do batch validation without oXygen in this blog post, which is more difficult to set up, but I will give you a general sense of how it works and point you in the right direction. Also, I’ll try to explain why you should be interested in validating your files in bulk prior to importing anything (EAD, MARC, whatever) into ArchivesSpace.
So on to the longer version:
If you’ve ever attempted to import EAD files into ArchivesSpace, you might have encountered some rather cryptic errors. Here’s one:
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