I believe Eric Morgan has done some work with VuFind and EAD documents - but
I would defer on this to him.
Andrew
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Custer, Mark <CUSTERM_at_ecu.edu> wrote:
> I'm curious if anyone on the list has experience with adding their EAD
> documents into a larger discovery system?
>
> Here are two examples of what I mean:
>
>
> * Triangle Research Library Network now indexes (and displays)
> entire EAD documents.
>
> Example (in which I've restricted my results to "archival materials" and
> entered "ammons" as my keyword):
>
> http://search.trln.org/search?Nty=1&Ntk=Keyword&Ntt=ammons&N=200092
>
>
> * University of Chicago library's implementation of AquaBrowser
> seems to index entire EAD documents.
>
> Example (in which I've searched for "American Automobile Brief History",
> quotes included, and where the first 3 results returned should be for
> archival finding aids):
>
> http://lens.lib.uchicago.edu/?q=%22american%20automobile%20brief%20history%22
>
> So, this leads me to three questions in particular:
>
>
> 1. Can anyone point me to any other online examples of "discovery
> tools" that are ingesting entire EAD documents? Summon, Encore, Primo,
> Blacklight, etc.??? (but, again, I'm not asking about OPACS that only search
> a surrogate of the EAD)
>
>
>
> 2. For those of you that are including the entire EAD in your
> library's discovery tool, did you already have surrogate MARC records for
> those collections in your catalog? If so, how are you dealing with those
> now that you're adding the EAD?
>
>
>
> 3. What do you think of whole retrieval experience (advanced search
> options, facets, incorporation into the relevancy algorithm, etc.)?
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all advice and/or other examples that might
> be out there,
>
>
> Mark Custer
>
Received on Tue Dec 22 2009 - 21:23:37 EST