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On Jan 31, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Michele R Combs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Tammy --
> 
> That's a reasonable solution to do it in the style sheet, makes a lot of sense.  Style sheets can do great things -- and I'm so glad you were able to put the workshop to good use :)  If it's being done in the style sheet, though, there's no reason it shouldn't still work with EAD that's output from Archon; or are you outputting the HTML directly from Archon?  Even so, it might be using a style sheet to do the conversion, so you might be able to modify it.
> 
> In this case we're using EAC, not EAD, as we're going to be displaying bios of corporations/people/firms, but your approach might work for that as well -- I'll add this to our list of possible solutions.  It's a fun project: we're storing the info in a database and exporting METS (for digital objects) and EAC (for bios), to be indexed along with our EAD (finding aids) which will produce one ginormous interrelated bundle.  Exciting stuff!
> 
> Thanks --
> 
> Michele
> 
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> From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gobert, Tammy
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: EAC - link to associated image
> 
> Hi Michelle-
> 
> I'm glad to see that someone else is dealing with this question.  At Rensselaer, we have been embedding an image in our HTML finding aids for some time.  Once we started using EAD, that became an issue.
> 
> We wanted the image to open at the top of the finding aid, so instead of adding a link within the EAD, we decided to insert some coding in our template instead.  You can see an example at http://www.lib.rpi.edu/dept/library/html/Archives/access/inventories/ac/ac27.xml.  We have it set up so the template looks for [collection #].jpg and automatically inserts the image in the right place.
> 
> This works fine if you're doing straight EAD markup with a template, but now that we've switched to Archon we don't have that option.  I'll be interested to see if anyone else is doing something like what you've described.
> 
> BTW, you may recognize our template - we adapted it from one you shared in a workshop I attended almost two years ago.  It was great!
> 
> Tammy
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michele R Combs
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:35 AM
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> Subject: EAC - link to associated image
> 
> I see that the EAD list is also the EAC list, according to the EAC home page, so here's a question for the collective EAC wisdom.  One of the things we'd like to include in our EAC records is a link to a photo of the person, or the company logo in the case of corporations, so that when the record is rendered all pretty in the browser there's a nice image to go with it.  I'm wondering what would be the most appropriate element to use.
> 
> At first I thought  <resourceRelation resourceRelationType="subjectOf" xlink:href="photo.jpg"></resourceRelation> .  But a company isn't really the "subject of" its logo, so that feels weird.  So now I'm thinking <citation xlink:href'"photo.jpg"> since its purpose is "to point to a resource that provides descriptive data which is not otherwise given in the EAC-CPF instance."  And since <citation> can occur in <bioghist> (the most logical place for a photo of a person or a company logo) maybe that's the best choice.  
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Michele
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