Just so everyone knows, the EAD Listserv generally blocks attachments automatically (to help prevent the spread of viruses and malware). You can always email the intended recipient directly to their email address and that should work.
Also, there is now a zipped file download option of the DTD files on the Official EAD Version 2002 Web site at:
http://www.loc.gov/ead/
.. contained under the "EAD DTD Official Documentation for Version 2002" heading. Thanks to Corey Keith at the Library of Congress for his assistance.
Best,
Glenn
Glenn Gardner
Network Development & MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. USA 20540-4402
Ph: +1 (202) 707-7414 Internal: LS/TECH/NDMSO (4402)
>>> [log in to unmask] 03/18/05 11:52 AM >>>
Lois,
Attached is a zip with the current dbase with some sample files, dated
documentation, and an import xsl we use for large box lists that helps save
some data entry time.
The tool is set up for the 90% type of guides we produce and is a bit
inflexible when it comes to adding extra tags. I hand-edit for that other
10% during post-production processes. Some aspects are unwieldy for sure but
this is what I knew how to do with what little Visual Basic I have.
Let me know what you think.
John P. Rees, MA, MLIS
Curator, Archives and Modern Manuscripts
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
Phone: 301.496.8953
Fax: 301.402.7034
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peterson, Lois A. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 10:24 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Access to EAD
>
>
> Would you send me a copy also, please, to look at.
>
> Truly yours,
> Lois Peterson
> Frederick Douglass Library
> University of Maryland Eastern Shore
> Princess Anne, MD 21853
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Rees, John (NIH/NLM)
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 5:11 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Access to EAD
>
> Lynn,
>
> As Chris says, the top level EAD info is usually pretty easy
> to pull from a flat-ish dbase table--the hard part is getting
> out container level data, if you have it, and having the
> nesting nicely done. The Berkeley approach uses Access's
> reporting tools, which we found to be quite buggy, esp. for
> large finding aids
>
> We have an Access solution that does all this a bit more
> elegantly by writing out files directly from the dbase. I've
> presented this tool at various venues and am happy to send
> you an empty copy to play with.
>
> John
>
> John P. Rees, MA, MLIS
> Curator, Archives and Modern Manuscripts
> History of Medicine Division
> National Library of Medicine
> 8600 Rockville Pike
> Bethesda, MD 20894
>
> Phone: 301.496.8953
> Fax: 301.402.7034
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Prom [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:24 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Access to EAD
> >
> >
> > Lynn,
> >
> >
> > You could also use the PHP and especially its xml extensions to
> > accomplish this result. The access file would not
> necessarily need to
> > be flat, but it would need to comply with content standards
> and/or be
> > easily mappable to EAD elements. You could pull data from related
> > tables out with a series of sql inner joins, but you would
> need some
> > pretty heavy hitting programming to do all this. It is
> possible, but
> > at least as complicated as using xsl.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > --
> >
> > Christopher J. Prom
> > Assistant University Archivist and
> > Assistant Professor of Library Administration
> > University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
> > 19 Library
> > 1408 W. Gregory Dr.
> > Urbana, IL 61801
> >
> > phone: 217.333.0798
> > fax: 217.333.2868
> > e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> > web: http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Chatham Ewing wrote:
> >
> > > Lynn,
> > >
> > > Late model Access (2003) will produce XML output, even from
> > relational
> > > files. But it seems to do best with flat files.
> > >
> > > If the data in your Access database is flattish and already
> > formatted
> > > to be compliant with a content standard that satisfies you,
> > like DACS
> > > (is
> > > it?) and the fields you have in your database easily map to
> > EAD tags (do
> > > they?), then it becomes a matter of transforming the
> database's XML
> > > output into EAD using XSL.
> > >
> > > Chatham
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Encoded Archival Description List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> > > Of Lynn Lobash
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:54 PM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Access to EAD
> > >
> > > I have an Access database and would like to produce an
> EAD encoded
> > > file. Any help appreciated.
> > >
> > > Lynn Lobash
> > >
> >
>
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