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*** Posted to IMAGELIB and EAD listservs. Please forgive the duplication
I'd like to thank those who responded to my request for sites that include
EAD-encoded finding aids with links to digital objects. I've summarized
the responses below. I'd appreciate information about any additional
sites.
The most pertinent site (for my purposes) was the Griffis Collection
Electronic Access Project at Rutgers University -
http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/projects/griffis/project.htm.
The finding aid includes links to TEI-encoded transcriptions (under Group
I, student essays, autobiography). From those transcriptions users can
link to images of the manuscript pages. An explanation of the encoding
methods was also included. The site was designed to be viewed using
Panorama. I've heard that it sometimes crashes Netscape when you try to
link to the documents, but I didn't have any trouble.
Another site that looks promising (again, for my purposes) is a directory
of EAD-encoded finding aids compiled (it appears) by the University of
Minnesota.
http://digital.lib.umn.edu/ead.html
I checked a few finding aids for most of the institutions listed and was
unable to find any with links to digital archival objects. Am I just
looking in the wrong places? If anyone can point me to examples that I
have miss, please let me know. In any case, this is a great resource.
One respondent reported that the National Agriculture Library had
announced a digital project using SGML, but I couldn't find any
information about it on their web site,
http://www.nalusda.gov/
John Riewe of Blue Angels Technologies sent me some information about
their product which can provide a turn-key solution for digital library
projects. Their web address is http://www.bluangel.com. (Please note
that the address is "blu" not "blue". http://www.blueangel.com is a very
different kind of site!)
Finally, someone suggested that I look at HELIOS as it is a good example
of a digital archive connecting a finding aid to digital versions of the
collection.
Based on the Griffis project, it appears that to link an EAD-encoded
finding aid to a digital object (using Author/Editor) one must create an
entity and then enter the entity name in the EXT.PTR attribute for the
EXTREF. Having done so, however, I am still unable to view a jpeg in the
same directory as the finding aid. What am I doing wrong?
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Naomi L. Nelson, Congressional Archivist PHONE: (404)727-6871
Special Collections, Robert W. Woodruff Library FAX: (404)727-0360
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322-2870 EMAIL: [log in to unmask]
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