Western CT State University has applied for a grant from the NEH to make
improvements to a statewide EAD search application called the CT
Archives Online (http://library.wcsu.edu/cao). We are looking for a
consultant developer or developers to help carry out those improvements.
Proposals are due by March 1, 2016.
A link to the rfp: http://www.biznet.ct.gov/scp_search/BidDetail.aspx?
CID=38283
The CAO application will continue to:
* search EAD files
* be no charge for access or participation
* have a Web based interface - no client would have to be downloaded and
installed and search would be accessible with a Web connection
* have few encoding requirements for EAD submissions
* have simple and advanced search - with the ability to scope to one or
all repositories
* provide result sets showing collection level metadata (<unititle>,
<unitid>, <abstract>, <unitdate> and <controlaccess> terms)
* provide search results that contain a “show relevant containers” link
that would show hits of the search term in the EAD’s inventory or
<archdesc> and show the component’s (<c>) container information
associated with the search term
* provide faceted results showing common access points among the search
results
* provide a system for submission of EADs
What we want to improve upon:
* Improve the user interface of CAO.
* Increase efficiency and update dependencies of CAO stack
* Improved file sharing paradigm
* validate files upon submission for well-formedness and for validness
against the schema/or DTD
* Exposure of the CAO dataset to Google
* Increase efficiency of in-context search
* allow phrase searches
* provide a “cart” for items a user wants to set aside from search
results
* ability to send cart contents to a repository’s archivist
* add links within <dao> tags in search results
* Track analytics to show the number of users and types of searches and
general site behavior
* make the CAO application deployable for other consortial finding aid
searches
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