As I have pointed out to Mr. Castellacci in a separate communication,
the example he has provided us reflects the Beta version of EAD and not
the tag set in version 1.0 which will be available by the time of the
SAA annual meeting.

He and I will be communicating separately to review his understanding of
the <dsc> and <c> elements as they relate to the hierarchical structure
of archival descriptive information.

What is particularly exciting about Mr. Castellacci's work is the fact
that it reflects the level of international interest in EAD and the
need, clearly recognized by the EAD Working Group, to further
"internationalize" EAD.

Michael
Michael Fox
Head of Processing
Minnesota Historical Society
345 Kellogg Blvd West
St. Paul MN 55102-1906
phone: 651-296-1014
fax:  651-296-9961
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> ----------
> From:         Massimo Castellacci[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         Thursday, August 13, 1998 8:43 AM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list EAD
> Subject:      Re: From DB to EAD
>
> Dear Mr. Fox,
>
> Given the paucity of my English, I am not sure I understood your
> reply.
> In particular when you tell me to rewiew the EAD model and the tag
> library.
>
> We constructed the document accordingly to the EAD tag library and
> parsed it with SP with no errors as result.
>
> Thank you for your interest.
>
>
> Fox, Michael wrote:
> >
> > This is a product of potential interest to those wanting to generate
> EAD
> > text as output from relational databases.
> >
> > I hestiate to comment on the example, given the paucity of my
> Italian
> > and the absence of a source document or file to which this EAD
> instance
> > might be compared.  However, judging solely on the sequence of tags,
> I
> > suspect that Mr. Castellacci will want to review the EAD model and
> > documentation that will be shortly available in the form of the EAD
> Tag
> > Library and modify the output of his program accordingly.
> >
> > Good luck.  Let me know if I may be of any assistance.
> >
> > Michael
> > Michael Fox
> > Head of Processing
> > Minnesota Historical Society
> > 345 Kellogg Blvd West
> > St. Paul MN 55102-1906
> > phone: 651-296-1014
> > fax:  651-296-9961
> > [log in to unmask]
> > **NOTE NEW AREA CODE EFFECTIVE JULY 12, 1998**
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From:         Massimo Castellacci[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > > Sent:         Thursday, August 13, 1998 7:50 AM
> > > To:   Multiple recipients of list EAD
> > > Subject:      From DB to EAD
> > >
> > > <<File: file.sgm>>
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > This message is to inform the EAD mailing list, and in particular
> to
> > > the
> > > attention of Mr. Pitti, that we are now able to extract
> automatically
> > > and dinamically the content of a DB for archival material into one
> or
> > > more SGML/EAD documents.
> > >
> > > The next step will be to use this result to navigate trough a DB
> via
> > > multilple and linked togheter production of these documents.
> > >
> > > We send to you an example of document wich contains informations
> about
> > > a
> > > branch of the "Archivio Capitolare di Pisa" extracted from a
> RDBMS.
> > >
> > > We will be very grateful for any comment, suggestions and
> questions
> > > you
> > > will send back to us to improve our work.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > --
> > > ****************************************************
> > >     Massimo Castellacci
> > >     Computer Science Graduation Course
> > >     University of Pisa - Italy
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> > > ****************************************************
> > >
>
> --
> ****************************************************
>     Massimo Castellacci
>     Computer Science Graduation Course
>     University of Pisa - Italy
> ----------------------------------------------------
>     Via Agostino di Duccio, 13
>     50143 - Firenze - ITALY
>     Tel. +3955706395   +393389207607
>     mailto:[log in to unmask]
>     http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~castella/intro.html
> ****************************************************
>