The University of Minnesota recently engaged in an extensive EAD
Project. Project documents are on the Web site:
http://wiki.lib.umn.edu/Staff/FindingAidsInEAD
Under the section "University of Minnesota ASC EAD Guidelines" is the
minimum requirements template used by all UMn archival repositories. You
can click on the link
(http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/SCARMinReqTemplate.xml) then use
View Source in your Internet browser to get a copy of the code. We used
this template with XMetaL and it worked very well. Feel free to use,
adopt, edit, whatever you want or need. We mounted our documents on the
Web for that purpose.
Best of luck! / Leslie Czechowski (former UMn EAD Project Director)
Fox, Michael wrote:
> One way to achieve this goal is to use a template in XMetal that includes the DOCTYPE declaration and the XML declaration (along with any other boiler plate encoding you wish to incorporate). Otherwise, I recall that XMetaL will create a declaration sans the EAD public identifier and with the file ead.dtd specified as a path statement pointing to the copy in the Rules folder of your XMetal installation which will also cause a problem when you move your EAD instance to another system.
>
> It is my understanding that XMetaL's .rlx files are simply binary instances of the comparable DTD file, created presumably for faster processing, a feature that goes back at least to its former SGML incarnation as Author/Editor. From a use standpoint, there seems to be little to chose one over the other except to observe that XMetal will automatically generate an rlx file the first time you invoke an instance that uses a DTD.
>
> Michael Fox
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Mark Carlson
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:54 PM
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> Subject: Re: rudimentary XMetal question
>
>
> Dana, make sure that your EAD document has the proper DOCTYPE
> declaration at the top. You will need to change to "plain text" view to
> see it in XMetaL. It is usually placed a couple of lines from the top
> of the document:
>
> <!DOCTYPE ead PUBLIC "+//ISBN 1-931666-00-8//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded
> Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002)//EN" "ead.dtd">
>
> Note that the last part of the declaration contains only the filename
> ead.dtd rather than a specific path. This is the default preference for
> XMetaL; XMetaL automatically searches in the Rules folder when a
> specific path is not specified. I would recommend not specifying a path
> in your DOCTYPE declaration because this can cause problems if you move
> your XML files between difference folders.
>
> Dana M. Miller wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm having some minor difficulty with what I think should be a rather
>>simple function of the XMetal software- setting the DTD to default to
>>EAD. When I first open the program and open an existing xml document, it
>>says that the file cannot be opened because a DTD could not be found, so
>>I have to browse for my dtd each time. I have both an ead.dtd file and
>>an ead.rlx file saved in the Rules folder in XMetal, and I've been
>>choosing ead.dtd instead of rlx since I don't really understand the
>>difference.
>>
>>I'm using the current Trial version while waiting for an upgrade to 4.6,
>>but nowhere in the Help does it seem to say anything about setting a
>>default DTD to use everytime I open the program. Is this actually
>>something that can be done?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Dana Miller
>>Technical Services Archivist
>>Special Collections
>>UNLV Libraries
>>University of Nevada Las Vegas
>>4505 S Maryland Pkwy
>>Box 457010
>>Las Vegas NV 89154-7010
>>
>>Ph: 702-895-2234
>>Fax: 702-895-2253
>>Email: [log in to unmask]
>>
>
>
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University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System
3811 O'Hara Street, Room 221
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-246-6553
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