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Niels Bohr Library and ArchiveURL: http://www.aip.org/history/ead/index.html
The Physics History Finding Aids Web Site is a growing, subject based consortium of science repositories. The Niels Bohr Library & Archives created the Web site with NEH grant funding in 1999, and has continued expanding it since 2001 with internal funding. PHFAWS is a collection of more than 250 archival finding aids in the history of physics, astronomy, and allied sciences from repositories in the United States and abroad. There are a growing number of finding aids available on the Web in a variety of formats (EAD, HTML, XML, PDF, Word, etc.), and we provide centralized access to those in our subject areas by harvesting the content of the finding aids with permission of the holding repository. We host the harvested index on our own server, which is cross-searchable by keyword. We then provide a link back to the owning repository's display version of the finding aid. The encoded finding aids are also linked from their equivalent MARC catalog records in the History Center's web-based International Catalog of Sources for the History of Physics and Allied Sciences (ICOS, http://www.aip.org/history/icos).
AIP separates the text into two files; the descriptive information and the container list. The descriptive information is cut-and-pasted into a template in the authoring software (oXygen). The container list is either imported from a Microsoft Excel document into a Microsoft Access database, or typed directly in to the database, which then prints the properly tagged boxlist. After joining the two parts, the finding aid is validated in oXygen and processed using Saxon. Once the XML has been converted to an HTML file, HTML content file and an HTML navigation frame file are uploaded to the server.
The AIP-hosted HTML finding aids are accessible in several ways. They are listed alphabetically on our finding aids browse page, viewable in frames, non-frames and raw EAD. They are also full-text searchable using the Verity search engine. Finally, they are linked from their corresponding MARC records in ICOS, our online catalog (www.aip.org/history/icos). The individual documents within the frameset are converted to HTML by using an XSL stylesheet and then are placed on our server. The XML instances are indexed using the Verity search engine, and also searchable using any standard search engine like Google.
Jennifer Sullivan jsulliva@aip.org
301-209-3172
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