Hi Jane --

Thought you might be interested in seeing a prototype of what elastic lists and EAD might look like.  Moritz and I and a couple of other people are playing with it.  So far it's very cool - I wrote an XSL script to generate a single xml input file from a directory full of EAD, you stick the resulting file in the right folder on the server with Moritz's flash application, and voila.  See here: http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/ElasticLists-EAD/binv3/index.html .

Michele

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Hi Michele,

This is a new one on me too - I think they look very convincing having just spent a short time exploring them. It would be a great idea for searching in so far as it allows people go go forwards, backwards and sideways really easily. I also really like some of the visual results that you get, e.g. on the http://well-formed-data.net/experiments/elastic_lists/ demo. 

Cheers,
Jane.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> On Behalf Of Michele R Combs
> Sent: 05 March 2009 14:26
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> Subject: Slightly OT: Faceted browsing and elastic lists
> 
> A recent discussion on the Archives and Archivists list about 
> archivists who twitter (I don't, myself) made me go look at 
> some of them, and among other things I found a link (thank 
> you Spellbound Blog!) to this slick faceted browse for New 
> York Times archives:
> 
> http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/elastic-lists/NYT/   
> 
> It's a project based on something called "elastic lists," 
> more info here 
> http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/elastic-lists/  .  This is 
> the first time I've encountered them but they seem to have a 
> lot of potential.  Seems like it could easily be adapted to 
> taking EAD as input, and thus a visual way to let people 
> search finding aids.
> 
> Michele
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