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Anne,

there are at least a couple of ways of tagging your subsection headings in the existing DTD
structure so that they could easily appear in a navigator. You'll have to decide if you're
happy with either of the two I detail below.

One way you could do it is to have a separate <scopecontent> tag for each of your subsections,
each with its own heading. The DTD allows as many <scopecontent> tags as you like within <
archdesc>. This would look something like:

<archdesc>
        <did>...</did>
        <scopecontent>
                <head>Photographs</head>
                ...
                </scopecontent>
        <scopecontent>
                <head>Cartoon Drawings</head>
                ...
                </scopecontent>
        ...

An alternative possibility is to have several <scopecontent> tags within another <
scopecontent>, which may be better as it represents the logical hierarchy more satisfactorily.
<scopecontent> is allowed within itself. This would come out something like:

<archdesc>
        <did>...</did>
        <scopecontent>
                <scopecontent>
                        <head>Photographs</head>
                        ...
                        </scopecontent>
                <scopecontent>
                        <head>Cartoon Drawings</head>
                        ...
                        </scopecontent>
                ...
                </scopecontent>
                ...

Hope you find this useful.

Yours,

        David
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David L. Clough
Reference Assistant, Yale Divinity Library
New Haven CT 06511
tel. (203) 432-5289 email [log in to unmask]

Beth Davis-Brown wrote:
>
> >From Anne Mitchell, LC Prints and Photographs Division:
>
> Here is a clarification on the issue of subsections in the scope and content
> note.  It seems like more of a question than an actual bug.  I'll try to
> explain.
>
>       The current situation:
>
>       Our finding aid contains a very long scope and content note (3 pages),
> which is divided into six subsections (e.g., "Photographs", "Cartoon Drawings,
> Prints, Illustration Drawings", "Color Transparencies" . . . ).  The way we
> have tagged <scopecontent> is by opening <scopecontent> for the entire
> section, followed a <head> (only one allowed for whole section), followed by
> <p>s.  Using this model, we had to tag each subsection head and corresponding
> descriptive paragraphs as separate <p>s, which doesn't link these elements
> together in any way.
>
>       What we need:
>
>       A way to tie subsections of <scopecontent> to corresponding subheadings,
> because we would like users viewing the finding aid to have a way of going
> straight to a subsection, without having to scroll through multiple "pages" of
> text.  We would like the subheadings tagged in a way that makes it possible to
> display and select subsections of the Scope and Content note with an
> electronic "table of contents".
>
> Questions:
>
>       - Is there a possibility that this situation could be remedied by the
>       style sheet?
>
>       - Is there an alternate way of tagging using the current DTD that would
>       give us the results we're looking for?
>
>       - Do we need to change the EAD to handle subsections the way we need
>       them?
>
>       We don't necessarily need form/genre access to these subsections, just a
> simple option for "lumping" subsections together within <scopecontent>.
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> Anne