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Sorry for the late answer. DigiTool (ExLIbris) also makes it possible to index a complete finding aid. The mechanism is the same as others mentioned, DigiTool extracts a text from the xml tags and the plain text file then is indexed and serves for retrieval.
 
Here at The Center for Jewish History, the full-text extraction routine is used only for those finding aids that have a container list that is not encoded in the marc record. We are just in the process of converting all collection level records in MARC into EAD. Naturally, it would not make any sense to run a full-text on these finding aids, as they are identical with the marc record ingested into the DigiTool and indexed there as well.
 
Have a look at:
http://digital.cjh.org
 
and search for Albania - one of the retrieved objects should be the Joseph Roth Collection. Albania is not mention in the record for the collection, but appears several times in the container list.
 
Best,
Standa Pej�a, Center for Jewish History 
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: Custer, Mark [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, 22 December, 2009 15:23
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Subject: [EAD] Adding EAD to the 'layer of discovery'?

I�m curious if anyone on the list has experience with adding their EAD documents into a larger discovery system? 

 

Here are two examples of what  I mean:

 

         Triangle Research Library Network now indexes (and displays) entire EAD documents. 

Example (in which I�ve restricted my results to �archival materials� and entered �ammons� as my keyword):

http://search.trln.org/search?Nty=1&Ntk=Keyword&Ntt=ammons&N=200092

 

         University of Chicago library�s implementation of AquaBrowser seems to index entire EAD documents. 

Example (in which I�ve searched for �American Automobile Brief History", quotes included, and where the first 3 results returned should be for archival finding aids):

http://lens.lib.uchicago.edu/?q=%22american%20automobile%20brief%20history%22

 

So, this leads me to three questions in particular:

 

1.       Can you point me to any other online examples of �discovery tools� that are ingesting entire EAD documents?  Summon, Encore, Primo, Blacklight, etc.??? (but, again, I�m not asking about OPACS that only search a MARC surrogate of the EAD)

 

2.       For those of you that are including the entire EAD in your library�s discovery tool, did you already have surrogate MARC records for those collections in your catalog?  If so, how are you dealing with those now that you�re adding the EAD?

 

3.       What do you think of whole retrieval experience (advanced search options, facets, incorporation into the relevancy algorithm, etc.)?

 

Thanks in advance for any and all advice and/or other examples that might be out there,

 

 

Mark Custer