I've done several experiments with auto-generating wiki contents, albeit
not with EAD, but the principles would be the same. One product of these
experiments was the wiki used by UCL's Transcribe Bentham project.
http://www.transcribe-bentham.da.ulcc.ac.uk/td/
MediaWiki has an XML-based import/export format for page contents,
therefore it is a simple scripting matter to fill a basic template
creating one's own XML dumps and import them. I'm sure EAD2HTML
stylesheets/converters could be adapted for the purpose.
See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps
All the valid wiki markup in such imported pages is honoured, so
Categories, wiki links, etc, automagically appear.
It's fun when you get it to work, hope this whets someone's appetite to try.
Richard
On 21/03/2013 19:09, Thompson, Timothy Aaron wrote:
> It does sound like a fun experiment. And why not take it a step
> farther and output EAC-CPF records to Wikipedia, with links back to
> finding aids and digital collections? It would be interesting to see
> how descriptions evolved after being let loose into the wild...
>
> Tim
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> Finding aids as a wiki?
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> Has anyone experimented with publishing EAD finding aids and/or EAC
> records as a wiki? For example, we could process all 2000+ of our
> finding aids and output a wiki with a page for each collection as
> well as for each person, with all the desired categories and
> interconnecting links that wikis are so good at. Plus you'd get the
> ease of comment/discussion that also comes with the wiki software.
> Seems like it would be a fun experiment.
>
> I'm pretty sure somebody has already done this but I can't seem to
> find any examples. Anybody know of one?
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