Message-Id: <199706021936.MAA302486@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:41:44 -0700 From: Richard Rinehart <mailto:rinehart@UCLINK2.BERKELEY.EDU> Subject: Re: database construction To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
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>I would check out the work at UC Berkeley using SGML in creating online =
>finding guides for Archives.
Thanks for the reference :) To further specify (and to announce this resource to ImageLib'ers) the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive has just mounted on our webserver SGML encoded finding aids to museum collections here. The EAD project (which encodes finding aids in SGML) started at the UC Berkeley Bancroft Archives, and is now a standard maintained by the Library of Congress.
Building on our early campus involvement in EAD/SGML, the Berkeley Art Museum is the first to apply this method specifically in a museum environment live for the public on our website. You can find/view the finding aids online at: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/search/collectionguides.html
We've also used SGML to create a searchable database of 12,000 film notes on cinema, but not using the EAD standard specifically. I've put up on each search page a "behind the scenes" section, which explains the nuts and bolts of how we got our information into SGML format (i.e. for the project in Ontario mentioned below in particular, we also got many of the item-level records from our collection management database and did not have to mark them up by hand). You can find more about the larger EAD/SGML finding aid project at: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/
I'd love to hear any feedback from this group, and hope this helps your project in the Ontario Museum!
Richard Rinehart | Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive Systems Manager & Education | University of California Technology Specialist | 2625 Durant, Berkeley, CA 94720-2250 mailto:rinehart@uclink2.berkeley.edu | http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ & Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network, http://world.std.com/~mcn/
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>I would check out the work at UC Berkeley using SGML in creating online =
>finding guides for Archives. SGML extends HTML's ability to relate =
>information within a context. I'm not suggesting you use SGML in your =
>system (although that would be cool) but you might get some good ideas =
>there.
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>Paul Andersen
mailto:>Paul_andersen@online.disney.com >-----Original Message-----
>From: Katalin Fur [SMTP:mailto:katalinf@ROM.ON.CA]
>Sent: Monday, June 02, 1997 10:25 AM
>To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
>Subject: database construction
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> Hello Everyone,
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> I am an intern at the Royal Ontario Museum and my summer project
> involves creating a finding aid for item-level description of 1200
> archival photographs. A selection of these will be digitized and the
> finding aid will be available at our web site. It is hoped that the
> successful outcome of this initiative will lead to the addition of
> other finding aids from the collection. I will be using MS Access and
> would appreciate all advice concerning appropriate field designations.
> Thanks in advance
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> Kathy Fur (mailto:katalinf@rom.on.ca)
>