Re: Adding EAD to the 'layer of discovery'?

I think Ross Singer responded about Blacklight earlier, but yes, there are Blacklight implementations that incorporate EAD guides. It isn't quite "out of the box" right now, but that is planned for an upcoming release. 

The best example right now is the Blacklight implementation that Matt Mitchell and I put together for the Northwest Digital archives, which you can see at http://nwda.projectblacklight.org

In this we're trying to incorporate EAD guides, including seamless presentation of the actual full-text of the guides, with discovery of individual items that are described within the EAD. This was a particular challenge because the guides are maintained separately from the individual items' descriptions, which are often kept in ContentDM. 

Here is a search result for EAD guides:

http://nwda.projectblacklight.org/?f%5Bformat_facet%5D%5B%5D=Archival+Collection+Guide

And a display view of one of the guides:

http://nwda.projectblacklight.org/catalog/jopamh21-summary

As always, you can find out more about blacklight at http://projectblacklight.org, and we'll be having a half-day pre-conference workshop at code4lib this year. 

Bess

On 2009-12-28, at 11:15 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

> Custer, Mark wrote:
>> First off, I'd like to thank both Tod and Derek for their very informative responses.  Right now, AquaBrowser and the TRLN Endeca-based system are still the only two live implementations that I know of that are searching full MARC records side-by-side with full EAD records.  I think that Blacklight is capable of this "out-of-the-box" as well, but I just don't know of any live sites that are indexing both.
>> 
> I am fairly sure that UVa's Blacklight implementation is indeed indexing 
> both native EAD and MARC, although I'm not sure it can be described as 
> 'out of the box' exactly.  You should talk to them. Didn't one of them 
> actually respond in this thread maybe?
> 
> 
> Jonathan