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EAD December 2009

Subject:

Re: use of <otherfindaid> tag

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Michele R Combs <[log in to unmask]>

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Encoded Archival Description List <[log in to unmask]>

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Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:33:20 -0500

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That's one reason we went with static HTML pages. Works OK; of course with the really famous people, our stuff is buried on the 3rd or 4th page down in the list of search results. It's nice for the lesser-known ones though.

Michele

-----Original Message-----
From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jane Stevenson
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:36 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: use of <otherfindaid> tag

Hi all,

 >>Basically what I'm trying to do is get away from creating static html pages to store on our
server and just present the view and print options through xml and xsl.

This has prompted me to think about a rather different question - we're actually thinking of
creating static html pages in addition to our XSL generated pages because we want our descriptions
to be exposed to Google. Alternatively we could create pre-generated searches. We don't just open up
our system to robots due to problems with overloading the system. Has anyone had any experience of
this kind of thing? It would be useful to get your thoughts.

cheers,
Jane.

**************************************************************
Jane Stevenson

Archives Hub Co-ordinator
Mimas
University of Manchester
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk




Fox, Michael wrote:
> There is a proof of concept stylesheet on the EAD help pages that does
> this, namely use XSL:FO to generate an XML document in Formatting
> Objects syntax (XSL:FO) that an FO processor could subsequently convert
> to PDF. If you use Oxygen, the necessary tools (an XSLT engine and
> the FOP processor) are already bundled in. I believe the same is true
> of the XML Spy software.
>
>
>
> There is also another stylesheet at the same location that goes from EAD
> directly to WordML using a standard XSL transformation, though I do not
> know if the syntax of this stylesheet still reflects Microsoft's current
> schema for Word. After transformation, the output can be opened
> directly in a recent version of Word and edited or printed as required.
>
>
>
> In these scenarios, your EAD XML instance could truly serve as your
> canonical version.
>
>
>
> Finally, there is another option with one of the EAD Cookbook
> stylesheets that produces an HTML page that has no links and so could be
> imported into Word and printed from there. A bit messier but far easier
> to pull off.
>
>
>
> Michael Fox
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On
> Behalf Of *Ethan Gruber
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:37 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: use of <otherfindaid> tag
>
>
>
> You can create XSLT stylesheets that contain Formatting Objects
> specifications, and then serialize to PDF dynamically with calls to the
> fop processor.
>
> Ethan
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Franks, Russell <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> Thank you Jane and Michele for the clarifications and thoughts.
>
> Michele, I like your method of generating a print page via the style
> sheet. Is this done with javascript? Or is it an xsl template that
> dynamically creates a new printer friendly page?
>
> Basically what I'm trying to do is get away from creating static html
> pages to store on our server and just present the view and print options
> through xml and xsl.
>
> Thanks - Russ
>
>
> Russell Franks
> Librarian
> Special and Archival Collections
> Phillips Memorial Library
> Providence College
> 1 Cunningham Square
> Providence, RI 02918-0001
> 401-865-2578
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> http://www.providence.edu/archives
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Jane Stevenson
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
> Subject: Re: use of <otherfindaid> tag
>
> Hi there,
>
> We (our contributors) use <archref> to link to separately described
> parts of a finding aid, such as
> where a description is extremely large and benefits from being divided
> up. This is in line with the
> guidance: 'Examples of such materials include a record group and one of
> its large series (which
> might have separate EAD-encoded finding aids)'
>
> However, our contributors can also use it to link to other parts of the
> same finding aid, which may
> not be strictly within the guidelines, but it seems to be the best
> choice for this.
> http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/arch/archref.shtml. It is not totally
> straightforward for us to
> implement these links, due to the way the Archives Hub is set up as a
> distributed system with
> machine interfaces.
>
> We use <otherfindaid> to indicate other finding aids for the same material:
> http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/arch/other.shtml
>
> So that differs from linking to other finding aids that are related but
> not representing the same
> material. The guidelines do say that it is for 'Information about
> additional or alternative guides
> to the described material'. When contributors use this tag, they are
> usually pointing to a more
> detailed resource rather than the same content in a different format,
> but I would assume that it
> could be the same.
>
> Jane.
>
> **************************************************************
> Jane Stevenson
>
> Archives Hub Co-ordinator
> http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk
>
>
> Michele R Combs wrote:
> > My understanding of archref is that it's for links to other
> collections of archival material. We
> > use archref to link to related collections. For example, we would
> use archref to link from the
> > finding aid for the papers of John Smith Jr. to the finding aid for
> the papers of his father,
> > John Smith Sr., or the papers of his son, John Smith III.
> >
> > My understanding of otherfindaid is that it's for links to finding
> aids that are different in
> > content, not just in file format. For example, we might include in
> the otherfindaid section a
> > link to an Excel spreadsheet that provides a finer level of detail
> for a set of John Smith Jr's
> > photographs, or a link to a published catalog of John Smith Jr's
> letters, or similar.
> >
> > To simply point to another version of the online finding aid, we have
> a link at the top of each
> > one that says "Printer friendly version." This link is generated by
> our XSL style sheet and is
> > not hard-coded into our EAD.
> >
> > Michele
> >
> > (be green - don't print this email!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michele Combs
> Manuscripts Librarian
> > Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222
> Waverly Ave. Syracuse, NY
> > 13244 315-443-2081 [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Encoded Archival Description List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf
> > Of Franks, Russell Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:00 PM To:
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: use
> > of <otherfindaid> tag
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is anyone using the <otherfindaid> tag to describe or point to
> another version of a finding aid,
> > such as a PDF version of the finding aid for patrons to dl or print?
> >
> > According to the tag library <otherfindaid> "is used to indicate the
> existence of additional
> > finding aids;" and that "The <archref> element may be used to give a
> formal citation to the other
> > finding aid or to link to an online version of it."
> >
> > It doesn't appear that the <otherfindaid> tag is limited to other
> finding aids created by
> > differing institutions or to legacy versions of the same finding aid.
> >
> > Also do I have to use the <archref> tag to link to the PDF? Since the
> PDF version of the finding
> > aid is not "separately described archival materials of special
> interest", it seems to me that the
> > use of the <extref> would be better suited for this purpose.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your thoughts -
> >
> > Russell Franks Librarian Special and Archival Collections Phillips
> Memorial Library Providence
> > College 1 Cunningham Square Providence, RI 02918-0001 401-865-2578
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> http://www.providence.edu/archives
> >
>
>
>

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