EAD delivery options

Current approach

Dynaweb and ContentDM

http://library.uvm.edu/about/specialcollections/MarthaKennedy.html

Dynaweb – internal links to images

http://bailey.uvm.edu:6336/dynaweb/findingaids/marsh/@Generic__BookView;cs=default;ts=default

DLXS

http://www.dlxs.org/

The newest DLXS enhancement - XPAT - is a powerful, SGML/XML-aware search engine, and an ultra-versatile tool for the development of digital libraries. XPAT provides excellent support for word and phrase searching, indexing of SGML elements and attributes, a baseline of support for XML (without Unicode), fast retrieval, and open systems integration. And ...

The Digital Library Production Service has developed a suite of tools for mounting collections of digital library content. Using object-oriented methods and widely available tools, this middleware has now been extended to support:

Encoded text collections ("Text Class")

Digital image collections ("Image Class")

Bibliographic data ("Bib Class")

EAD2002-encoded finding aids ("Findaid Class")

Examples

http://www.dlxs.org/about/samples.html

http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/EAD/

FEDORA

http://www.fedora.info/

2.0 released January 31, 2005

Fedora is a general purpose repository service developed jointly by The University of Virginia Library and Cornell University. The Fedora project is devoted to the goal of providing open-source repository software that can serve as the foundation for many types of information management systems.

The software demonstrates how distributed digital information management can be deployed using web-based technologies, including XML and web services.

Based on Fedora™, the open source software and architecture upon which VITAL is built, VITAL provides every feature—storing, indexing, cataloging, searching, retrieving—required to handle large text and image rich content collections. VITAL takes advantage of technology standards such as XML, TEI, EAD and Dublin Core to easily describe and index an assortment of electronic resources.

VITAL builds on the Fedora™ repository architecture by providing VTLS developed work flow extensions, management utilities and enhanced searching capabilities. Using Fedora™ defined web services, VITAL provides a mechanism for your organization to create tools, enhance the functionality provided by VTLS, or leverage the open source community for future applications. Together, the package is known as VITAL.

Apache

The finding aids included in this site are marked up in XML according to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard. The site runs Cocoon publishing software that applies XSL stylesheets for displaying the finding aids as HTML in any standard web browser. Lucene is the site's search engine. Both Cocoon and Lucene are open source software projects of The Apache Software Foundation.

PLEADE is an open source search engine and browser for archival finding aids encoded in XML/EAD. Based on the SDX platform, it is a very flexible Web application. The current release of PLEADE is v1.0.

EAD Cookbook

Products currently available include XMetaL, XML Spy, Oxygen, Note Tab, WordPerfect 2000, and others. Consult your favorite web search engine for current addresses and additional information about each of these products.

This section describes three widely used conversion programs. All are free. Saxon was created and is maintained by Michael Kay, one of the developers of XSLT. For many, it is the "gold standard" of transformation software. MSXML from Microsoft is very widely employed and is reputedly the "fastest" of the group. Xalan from Apache is often employed because of its connection with its popular web server software.

A number of products are available if you wish to provide keyword or structured searching of the full text of your inventories. This obviously is a very complex and technical issue, well beyond the scope of the Cookbook. Several applications are available currently and new ones appear regularly. More detailed information may be found in Chapter 5 of the EAD Application Guidelines and other sources including:

NYU

These finding aids have been marked up in XML (eXtensible Markup Language) according to the EAD (Encoded Archival Description) markup schema.

The XML documents have been loaded into an Oracle database and indexed with Intermedia Text for searching within tags. If you click on "retrieve this findingaid" you will be taken to the HTML frameset dynamically generated from the XML version. Also available is a pointer to the concommitant static HTML-encoded text of the finding aid, which allows you to search within the findingaid. The third option is a printable non-frames version.

Zope

Zope is an open source application server for building content management systems, intranets, portals, and custom applications. The Zope community consists of hundreds of companies and thousands of developers all over the world, working on building the platform and Zope applications. Zope is written in Python, a highly-productive, object-oriented scripting language.

Consultant

Implementations of online access systems that utilize structured information stored in either relational databases or XML encoded documents.

Archivists’ Toolkit

Key objectives of the application are to increase archival processing efficiencies and lower processing costs, including costs for specialized training; reduce the need for locally built tools; and promote standardization. When completed, the application will support collection accessioning and description, location tracking, and provenance registration, as well as outputs for the EAD and METS standards.