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Michelle, It's taken me a few days to get back to this. We're not entirely "live" yet, but we have recently moved our finding aids into a Fedora system. When it's all working the right away, someone searching our "Digital Collections" will pull up digital images, texts, and finding aids in their searching. I don't know how well it's going to work yet, but it is promising. We have our own descriptive and administrative metadata scheme that we've mapped to our finding aids. It's my understanding that when users are searching through the digital collections site, they will not be searching the entire finding aid, but rather, selected fields, like unititle, author, abstract, and the controlaccess information. I have already noted some "problems" - man made - involving how we describe materials and how we find them in a computer environment. For example, omitting the word "Mexico" from the abstract or subject headings in a collection that I know has a lot of information about Mexico.... If you want to know more about the technical aspects of how all this comes together, let me know - I can put you in touch with our tekkie people and our metadata librarian. Jennie *** Jennie A. Levine Curator for Historical Manuscripts Archives and Manuscripts Department 2208 C Hornbake Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 (301)314-2712 (301)314-2709 FAX [log in to unmask] http://www.lib.umd.edu/histmss Abel, Sean (SLSA) wrote: > Hi Michele, > > Not sure how useful it is but we are looking at doing just this in the > near future. From reading your email you are already providing finding > aids using EAD, could you tell me a bit more about how you achieved > this? > > For info we are about to scan our paper based finding aids as PDF's and > then provide links to the scanned copy on our library catalogue. A > quick and dirty solution. The next step is to encode them into EAD and > make use of our existing XML server- Tamino to provide access. This is > still a long way off and we have given no thought about searching. > > Regards > Sean > > Sean Abel > > Digital Object Management, ICT > State Library of South Australia > Phone: +61 8 8207 7601 > Fax: +61 8 8207 7350 > Email: [log in to unmask] > > http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au > > The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential, > and may also be the subject of privilege or public interest immunity. > This e-mail and any attached files should be scanned to detect viruses > and no liability for loss or damage resulting from the use of any > attached files is accepted. If you are not the intended recipient, any > use, disclosure or reproduction of this document is unauthorised. If > you have received this e-mail in error please telephone +61 8 8207 7601. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of Michele Combs > Sent: Friday, 8 June 2007 10:38 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Federated search > > Our library is investigating various methods and tools for federated > searching. If anyone has experience integrating EAD finding aids with > federated search tools, we'd like to hear about it. You can send > responses off-list if you like. > > Michele C. > > > -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=- > Michele R. Combs > [log in to unmask] > Manuscripts Processor > Special Collections Research Center > Syracuse University Library > 222 Waverly Avenue > Syracuse, NY 13244 > (315) 443-2697 > -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=- -