Tools & helper files Center For Jewish History

URL: http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=collections-result&collection_id=1014; http://www.cjh.org/p/93

Encoding Procedure:  

EAD encoded finding aids created by the staff of the five institutions that constitute the Center for Jewish History are delivered in HTML, which is created on-the-fly from XML using an XSLT stylesheet developed by Stanislav Pejsa. The finding aids are accessible to the user across three different interfaces: our Digital Collections site, our OPAC, and our Finding Aids site. Our archivists load their EAD XML files via Meditor into DigiTool, the Center’s digital asset management system, and then all three of the above interfaces connect the user to the DigiTool-ingested finding aids.

Delivery Mechanism:  

The Center for Jewish History has been generating EAD-encoded finding aids since 2001. This has included the transfer and modification of legacy Word-processed or paper finding aids into DACS- and local-standards-compliant aids, using controlled vocabularies for access points from LC Authorities and Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus. In 2009, the Center converted MARC records for archival collections missing finding aids into EAD collection-level finding aids. Records were exported from the Center's ILS and then MARCEdit’s open-source MARC-to-EAD crosswalk and oXygen were used to complete the process.

As of March 2011, the Center has a total of 7,549 EAD finding aids. 6,637 of these finding aids were generated via the crosswalk, the majority of which offer collection-level description. 912 of these findings aids were not generated via the crosswalk and consist primarily of series-, box- and folder-level description.

XML applications used in the past have been XMetal 2.0, Altova XML Spy 2005 Home Edition, and NoteTab. Since 2008, the Center has been exclusively using oXygen XML Editor.

Contact:  

Laura Leone, Director of Archive and Library Services

Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street

New York, NY 10011

(917) 606-8215

lleone@cjh.org

RLG Member:  

Yes

Last updated:  2011-03-04

Update information:
If any information concerning the above EAD implementation is incorrect or out of date download the XML source file for this entry, make required changes and mail back to Mark Matienzo. Updated entries may only be submitted by the contact listed above.