Message-Id: <199803241323.GAA69594@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 08:21:43 -0500 From: Naomi Lynn Nelson <mailto:libnn@emory.edu> Subject: DAO's: Summary of responses To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
*** Posted to IMAGELIB and EAD listservs. Please forgive the duplicationI'd like to thank those who responded to my request for sites that include EAD-encoded finding aids with links to digital objects. I've summarized the responses below. I'd appreciate information about any additional sites.
The most pertinent site (for my purposes) was the Griffis Collection Electronic Access Project at Rutgers University - http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/projects/griffis/project.htm. The finding aid includes links to TEI-encoded transcriptions (under Group I, student essays, autobiography). From those transcriptions users can link to images of the manuscript pages. An explanation of the encoding methods was also included. The site was designed to be viewed using Panorama. I've heard that it sometimes crashes Netscape when you try to link to the documents, but I didn't have any trouble.
Another site that looks promising (again, for my purposes) is a directory of EAD-encoded finding aids compiled (it appears) by the University of Minnesota. http://digital.lib.umn.edu/ead.html I checked a few finding aids for most of the institutions listed and was unable to find any with links to digital archival objects. Am I just looking in the wrong places? If anyone can point me to examples that I have miss, please let me know. In any case, this is a great resource.
One respondent reported that the National Agriculture Library had announced a digital project using SGML, but I couldn't find any information about it on their web site, http://www.nalusda.gov/
John Riewe of Blue Angels Technologies sent me some information about their product which can provide a turn-key solution for digital library projects. Their web address is http://www.bluangel.com. (Please note that the address is "blu" not "blue". http://www.blueangel.com is a very different kind of site!)
Finally, someone suggested that I look at HELIOS as it is a good example of a digital archive connecting a finding aid to digital versions of the collection.
Based on the Griffis project, it appears that to link an EAD-encoded finding aid to a digital object (using Author/Editor) one must create an entity and then enter the entity name in the EXT.PTR attribute for the EXTREF. Having done so, however, I am still unable to view a jpeg in the same directory as the finding aid. What am I doing wrong?
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Naomi L. Nelson, Congressional Archivist PHONE: (404)727-6871 Special Collections, Robert W. Woodruff Library FAX: (404)727-0360 Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322-2870 EMAIL: mailto:libnn@emory.edu
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