EAD in the Catalog

Meghan Finch

Wayne State University

Eastern Great Lakes

Innovative Users Group 9/23/2011

Introduction

Meghan Finch

Metadata and Digital Media Librarian

Wayne State University

meghan.finch@wayne.edu

Outline

• Discuss our EAD needs

• Show what tools were selected to meet those needs

• Show the results of those efforts

• Discuss the work accomplished, the changes made, the code created

• List some issues that came up during the process

• And finally ask some questions for consideration in the future

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Tools

• http://archiviststoolkit.org

• Collaboration by UCSD

Libraries, the NYU

Libraries, and the Five

College Libraries

• Open source, free to use

• Creates standards

compliant EAD

• Oxygen + saxon xsl

processors

• XSL to prep EAD

• XSL in Millennium

Archivist’s Toolkit XSL

Steps

1. Create EAD

in AT

2. Remove

namespaces

3. Create new

bib record

Issues

• Doesn’t display in Encore or mobile

webpac

• Doesn’t allow ead2002 schema rules,

such as the use of the xlink namespace

For the Future

• Try to answer the question: where is the best place for finding aids

• Investigate making subject headings in EAD actively link with subjects indexed

• Test out collapsible display to make EAD more compact

• Push for support in Encore and mobile