EAD 2002: Finding Aid Delivery using Native XML Technologies

Charles Blair

Digital Library Development Center

University of Chicago Library

DLF Fall Forum

Baltimore, MD

October 2004

Background

From SGML to XML

ead.lib.uchicago.edu

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

Data Conversion

A Note on XML Validators

Anatomy of a Finding Aid

Workflow

Software: Front matter

Workflow, cont'd

Workflow Summary

System revisited

Summary so far

The Roads Not Taken

Conclusion (well, not quite)

Finding Aid Discovery

OAI-PMH

Credits