Gordon,

It is pretty easy, you just use the DAO tag, into which you enter a URL to
the image you want to link to of.  Of course, your stylesheet needs to
support it, but that is another matter, although not very difficult either
if your stylesheet is easy to edit.   There is a finding aid with
numberous DAO's here:

http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ead/xml/2620120.xml

I use the role attribute to tell what kind of digital file is being linked
through, then a series of if's in the stylesheet to tailor the way the
link looks in the HTML.  I.e. if it is a photo i say "view photo" or if an
audio clip "listen to clip" etc.

Chris

Christopher J. Prom
Assistant University Archivist
University of Illinois Archives
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Gordon Daines wrote:

> My department chair has asked that I figure out how to link external
> digital images to our finding aids.  The images will be located in a
> digital library and we want to be able to point to them from the finding
> aids.  Does anyone have examples of how they have tagged finding aids to
> point to such images that they would be willing to share with me?
> Thanks in advance.
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