We currently have over 120 finding aids on the website.
Using XSLT we create html files where the user can choose three different views for seeing the finding aid: Frames Off (default), Frames On, and Print View. Print View strips out the hyperlinks and maximizes the amount of text on the page in order to save paper.
A freeware search engine dedicated to searching archival finding aids will be customized as part of an NEH grant starting October 1, 2006.
EAD finding aids are linked to collection-level MARC records in the online catalog, and are also captured in RLG's ArchiveGrid.
As collections are processed or updated, an EAD-encoded finding aid is constructed in XML using XMetal 3 in conjunction with NoteTab Pro. Sometimes the container information is entered straight into XMetal; most of the time the lists are created in Microsoft Word or Excel. We have a macro in NoteTab Pro, developed by consultant Christopher Prom, that converts our Word documents into EAD-tagged container lists.