Tools & helper files National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/hmd.html

Encoding Procedure:  

I use Notetab with Daniel Pitti's markup scripts, modified for local use. We use James Clark's parsers and XT for HTML conversion (provided by Pitti at Rare Books School). I use a modified XSL stylesheet taken from the EAD Cookbook (eadcbs2) for creating the HTML. Conversion of legacy data is being performed by Electronic Scriptorium (Leesburg, Va.) using our Notetab system. We haven't explored converting the print finding aids, yet. New finding aids will probably be created using a hybrid Notetab/XMetal process, and Alvin Pollock's MS Access report process for doing container lists.

Delivery Mechanism:  

We will serve HTML documents from a list of manuscript collections on our web site (from a MS Access dbase), and links from MARC records. We are also exploring various search engine applications.

Contact:  

John Rees Assistant Curator, Modern Manuscripts History of Medicine Division National Library of Medicine ReesJ@mail.nlm.nih.gov

RLG Member:  

Yes.

Last updated:  May 2004

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If any information concerning the above EAD implementation is incorrect or out of date download the XML source file for this entry, make required changes and mail back to levjen@umd.edu.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