Good morning Susan,
My responses are below each of your inquires.
Plato L. Smith II, Digital Initiatives Librarian
Office: 850-644-3053/Cell 850-370-6849
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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:53 PM
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Subject: Technology behind finding aids
Hi All,
I'm working on a project to implement EAD at the State Library of Victoria
in
quick rundown about what technology they are using for the
storage and presentation of your finding aids?
[Plato
Smith] We have an EAD publishing process of using our original EAD Finding Aids
site http://www.lib.fsu.edu/dlmc/dlc/findingaids
to view, edit, and double-check (checked by certified archivist) EAD Finding
Aids before ingesting them into our new site http://digitool3.lib.fsu.edu/R/?func=collections-result&collection_id=1076
which is DigiTool 3.0 Digital Content Management System http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/digitool.htm).
1.
Original site uses
Drupal with a MySQL database and PHP scripting language (developed by former
Web Development Librarian)
2.
New site uses an Oracle
9i backend database with JBoss/Java API/CGI and RSS/CSS for display
3.
The presentation of EAD Finding
Aids are displayed in HTML, PDF, and raw XML.
4.
Software used: NoteTab
Light (free) http://www.notetab.com/, XML
Spy (but there are many XML editors to select and do not advocate one over the
other – totally based on your needs/uses/future expectations)
eg. Do you use a database, if so which one?
[Plato
Smith] Drupal http://drupal.org/about (MySql
& PHP) for original site and Oracle 9i database for new site (proprietary
and bundled with DigiTool)
What do you use to index, transform, display?
[Plato
Smith]
1.
Index: Old site does not
index and the new site uses a GUI search box, OCR of PDFs, and all search terms
found anywhere in our collections including EAD finding aids/collection.
2.
Transform: use Note Tab
Light text editor to create EAD XML files and XML Spy/Apache FOP via XSL stylesheets
to render HTML and PDF versions
3.
Our publishing is not
optimal and will be streamlined/enhanced in the future
Is it all linked to your Library Catalogue software if you are a
library?
[Plato
Smith] EXCELLENT question! We are in the process of developing the workflow to
have all EAD Finding Aids from the new site in OPAC. We must coordinate with
our Cataloging Department. This workflow will require collaboration between
I have found some websites that have this info, but may be missing ones
also.
I realise this is a fairly complex area, but a few pointers would be appreciated!
If there is any documentation people can send, that would be
great too.
[Plato
Smith] You may want to
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Thanks,
Susan
[Plato
Smith] Hope this helps and contact me anytime.
Susan Millard
Project Manager
slv21 EAD Project
State Library of
Ph: ( 61 3) 8664 7055
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