Finding aids are delivered using on the fly conversion to HTML. At present there is no provision for delivery of native SGML. The Bentley is working in collaboration with the University Librarys Digital Library Production Services Unit. The SGML finding aids are stored on a DLPS server using Open Text PAT 5.0 for indexing and searching. The search interface is a simple HTML forms page. DLPS-developed CGI and perl scripts translate queries from HTML to Open Text search language and translate results from SGML to HTML for delivery to user. (see About the Bentley EAD Project on our EAD site for more details)
For about ten years Bentley finding aids have been created in Microsoft Word (currently WORD 6.0) using a WORD stylesheet to control formatting. Some older finding aids have been OCRed and then formatted and updated using the WORD stylesheet. The stylesheets identify most elements of the finding aid in a way that can be used for automated conversion to EAD. 1) Finding aids are created/edited in WORD to conform to the latest version of the stylesheet. 2) Several WORD macros employing the stylesheet codes are run on the container list portion of the finding aid to convert it to an EAD document. Macros insert proper <C0x><did><unittitle><unitdate><physdesc>and<note> tags. Other macros convert MARC controlled access terms, various lists and indexes to appropriate EAD tags.