Eli,
If you're just looking for end user search engine capabilities in the vein
of OPACs, have a look at SWISH-E (http://swish-e.org) and Harvest
(http://harvest.sourceforge.net). These are just a couple of open source
options. They aren't for EAD exclusively — they're XML-aware
search/indexing engines. But you can define which fields you'd like to be
indexed and searched, and they come with nice GUIs ready to plug into your
exisiting site.
Clay
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Clay Redding
Automation/Systems Archivist
American Institute of Physics
Center for History of Physics
Niels Bohr Library
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740
Phone: (301)209-3172
Fax: (301)209-3144
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Can anyone direct me to a simple (preferably open source) tool for
searching various tags or areas within an EAD finding aid? I'm envisioning
something that works somewhat like an OPAC interface, with fields for
searching by creator, title, date, controlled vocabulary, full-text keyword,
provenance, <unitid>, etc.
I am currently working on a very simple and straightforward such tool in
Perl using CGI. It functions (to simplify significantly) by generating XSLT
documents which contain tests for the queries input by the user, which are
then applied to each EAD document within a specified filepath. Am I
reinventing the wheel? If not, would there be any interest in such a
program if I were to generalize it enough that it could be integrated with
other institutions' web interfaces?
Thanks,
--Eli Naeher
Lower Cape Fear Historical Society
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