Slides from Society of American Archivists 2011. Presents a model crosswalk between AT (Archivists' Toolkit) to XTF (a search engine created by California Digital Library).
3. Clarification of Terms
AT: Archivists’ Toolkit
EAD: Encoded Archival Description
XTF: Extensible Text Framework
4. Clarification of Terms
AT: Archivists’ Toolkit
EAD: Encoded Archival Description
XTF: Extensible Text Framework
[ web app, which
1) Creates HTML from our EAD
5. Clarification of Terms
AT: Archivists’ Toolkit
EAD: Encoded Archival Description
XTF: Extensible Text Framework
[ web app, which
1) Creates HTML from our EAD
2) Indexes EAD (XML) for search ]
6. Deployments
• Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection
• Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administration Collection
• Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection
• Voter Education Project
10. Nota Bene: Essential Changes #1B
• It appears that I have not previously recorded,
that XTF appears to expect the following
additional structure from AT-formatted EAD:
ead/archdesc/dsc/head
This is not present for us in AT 1.5.9.
We’ve been adding one accordingly.
12. Changes #3: Data Returns
Our changes:
• Box-Folder information
• Additional <controlaccess> calls
• Fix AT (1.5.9 e.g.) character escaping
<chronlist><chronitem>
• Physical Locations (DAOs)
13. Changes #4: Interface changes
Internal requirements:
• Custom search examples
• Changes to browse interface
– Fire off a search?browse-all=yes
– Suppression of google-style search
– Additional suppressions (sort-by-author, e.g.)
14. Changes #5: Returns Formatting
What About Print?
• RWWL is moving toward “Print View” as
substitute for new paper finding aids.
• Direct changes to XSL output are:
– Inelegant
– Decentralized
• Wanted: abstraction
15. Summary
Workflow
• AT -> EAD -> XTF
Watch your fields (author, creator, e.g.)
Test, retest, and deploy
16. Thank you.
Al Matthews
prolepsis@gmail.com
(337) 214-4688 @google-voice
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