Mounting a Finding Aids Collection

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Workshop materials are located at http://www.dlxs.org/training/workshop200707/findaidclass/fcoutline.html
Workshop materials are located at http://www.dlxs.org/training/workshop200707/findaidclass/fcoutline.html
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==Overview==
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The Finding Aids Class is in many ways similar in behavior to Text Class. Access minimally includes full text searching across collections or within a particular collection of Finding Aids, viewing Finding Aids in a variety of display formats, and creation of personal collections ("bookbag") of Finding Aids.
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'''WARNING!! This page is under construction. Please use the existing documentation at http://www.dlxs.org/docs/13/index.html
 
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until we take down this warning!
 
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==Overview==
 
To mount a Finding Aids Collection, you will need to complete the following steps:
To mount a Finding Aids Collection, you will need to complete the following steps:
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# Prepare your data and set up a directory structure: see Preparing Data and Directories
 
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# Validate and normalize your data: xref
 
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# Build the Index: xref
 
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# Mount the collection online: xref
 
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# [[Preparing_Data and Directories|Prepare your data and set up a directory structure]]
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# [[Finding_Aids_Data_Preparation#Validating_and_Normalizing_Your_Data| Validate and normalize your data]]
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# [[Building the Index |Build the Index]]
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# [[Mounting the Collection Online|Mount the collection online]]
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===Examples===
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===[[Findaid Class Behaviors Overview]]===
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Implementations of Findaid Class
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This section describes the basic Findaid Class behaviors.
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Bentley
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===Examples of Findaid Class Implementations and Practices===
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===Overview of Data Preparation and Indexing Steps===
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This section contains links to public implementations of DLXS Findaid Class as well as documentation on workflow and implementation issues. If you are a member of DLXS and have a collection or resource you would like to add, or wish to add more information about your collection, please edit this section.
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'''Data Preparation'''
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;[http://bentley.umich.edu/EAD/index.php University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library Finding Aids]
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: Out-of-the-box DLXS 13 implementation.
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;[http://bentley.umich.edu/EAD/eadproject.php Overview of Bentley's workflow process for Finding Aids ]
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:See also the links in [[#Practical_EAD_Encoding_Issues | Practical EAD Encoding Issues]] for background on the Bentley EAD workflow and encoding practices
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# [[#DataPrepStep1|validating the files individually]] against the EAD ''2002'' DTD<br />'''make validateeach'''<br />
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;[http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/f/fa/ Unversity of Tennesee Special Collections Libraries]
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# [#DataPrepStep2 concatenating the files into one larger XML file]<br />'''make prepdocs'''<br />
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: DLXS Findaid Class version ?
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# [#DataPrepStep3 validating the concatenated file] against the ''dlxsead2002'' DTD:<br />'''make validate'''<br />
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# [#DataPrepStep4 "normalizing" the concatenated file.]<br />'''make norm'''<br />
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# [#DataPrepStep5 validating the normalized concatenated file against the ''dlxsead2002'' DTD]<br />'''make validate'''<br />
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The end result of these steps is a file containing the concatenated EADs wrapped in a &lt;COLL&gt; element which validates against the dlxsead2002 and is ready for indexing:
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;[http://digital.library.pitt.edu/ead/ University of Pittsburgh, Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aids]
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;[http://digital.library.pitt.edu/ead/aboutead.html Background on Pittsburgh Finding Aids workflow]
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&lt;COLL&gt;<br />&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;1&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;2&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;3&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />&lt;/COLL&gt;
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;[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/wiarchives University of Wisconsin, Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids]
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'''WARNING!''' If are extra characters or some other problem with the part of the program that strips out the xml declaration and the docytype declearation the file will end up like:
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;[http://discover.lib.umn.edu/findaid University of Minnesota Libraries, Online Finding Aids]
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;[https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/Staff/FindingAidsInEAD/ EAD Implementation at the University of Minnesota]
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&lt;COLL&gt;<br />baddata&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;1&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />baddata&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;2&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />baddata&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;3&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />&lt;/COLL&gt;
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In this case you will get "character data not allowed" or similar errors during the make validate step. You can troubleshoot by looking at the concatenated file and/or checking your original EADs.
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;[http://archives.getty.edu:8082/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?cc=utf8a;c=utf8a;tpl=browse.tpl Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids]
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: Heavily customized DLXS11a. [http://library.pub.getty.edu:8100/DLXS06.html Background on Getty customization and user interface changes to DLXS]
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'''Indexing'''
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;[http://archives.getty.edu:8082/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?cc=iastaff;c=iastaff;tpl=browse.tpl J. Paul Getty Trust Institutional Archives Finding Aids]
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:Heavily customized DLXS11a.
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# '''make singledd''' indexes words for texts that have been concatenated into on large file for a collection. This is the recommended process.
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==[[Working with the EAD]]==
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# '''make xml''' indexes the XML structure by reading the DTD. Validates as it indexes.
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==Working with the EAD==
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==[[Preparing Data and Directories]]==
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=== EAD 2002 DTD Overview ===
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These instructions assume that you have already encoded your finding aids files in the XML-based [http://www.loc.gov/ead/ EAD 2002 DTD]. If you have finding aids encoded using the older EAD 1.0 standard or are using the SGML version of EAD2002, you will need to convert your files to the XML version of EAD2002. When converting from SGML to XML a number of character set issues may arise. These are pretty much the same issues that were described for text class see [../conversion/index.html Data Conversion: Unicode, XML, and Normalization] .
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==[[Finding Aids Data Preparation]]==
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* The Society of American Archivists EAD Tools page:http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ead/tools.html
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==[[Working with Fabricated Regions in Findaid Class]]==
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* Library of Congress EAD conversion toolshttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/music/eadmusic/eadconv12/ead2002_r.html
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* Library of Congress EAD page http://www.loc.gov/ead/ (This is the home of the EAD standard
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* EAD2002 tag library http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/index.html
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* The Society of American Archivists EAD Help page: http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ead/
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* Various EAD Best Practice Guidelines listed on the Society of American Archivists EAD essentials page: [http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ead/ http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ead/essentials.html] (the links to BPGs are at the bottom of the page)
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* The EAD listserv http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/ead.html
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The EAD standard was designed as a ´loose¡ standard in order to accommodate the large variety in local practices for paper finding aids and make it easy for archives to convert from paper to electronic form. As a result, conformance with the EAD standard still allows a great deal of variety in encoding practices.
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==[[Troubleshooting Finding Aids]]==
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The DLXS software is primarily designed as a system for mounting University of Michigan collections. In the case of finding aids, the software has been designed to accommodate the encoding practices of the Bentley Historical Library. The more similar your data and setup is to the Bentley’s, the easier is will be to integrate your finding aids collection with DLXS. If your practices differ significantly from the Bentley’s, you will probably need to do some preprocessing of your files and/or modifications to various files in DLXS. We have found that the largest number of issues in implementing Findaid Class for member institutions is dealing with differences in encoding practices. We will cover various issues that commonly arise.
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==[[Linking from Finding Aids Using ID Resolver]]==
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* Overview of Bentley's workflow process for Finding Aids http://bentley.umich.edu/EAD/eadproj.htm
 
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* Description of Bentley Finding Aids and their presentation on the web http://bentley.umich.edu/EAD/findaids.htm
 
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* Bentley MS Word EAD templates and macros http://bentley.umich.edu/EAD/bhlfiles.htm
 
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* Description of EAD tags used in Bentley EADs http://bentley.umich.edu/EAD/bhltags.htm
 
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=== Types of changes to accomodate differing encoding practices and/or interface changes ===
 
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* Modify prep scripts (Makefile, preparedocs.pl, validateeach.csh)
 
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* &lt;eadid&gt; should be less than about 20 characters in length
 
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* UTF-8 Byte Order Marks (BOM) should be removed from EADs prior to concatenation
 
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* Out-of-the-box &lt;dao&gt; handling may need to be modified for your needs
 
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* If your &lt;unititle&gt; element precedes your &lt;origination&gt; element in <span class="unixcommand">the top level &lt;did&gt;, you will have to modify the maintitle fabricated region query in xxx.extra.srch </span>
 
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==Preparing Data and Directories==
 
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'''Each of these files need to be edited '''to reflect the new collection name and the paths to your particular directories. This will be true when you use these at your home institution as well, even if you use the same directory architecture as we do, because they will always need to reflect the unique name of each collection. Failure to change even one file can result in puzzling errors, because the scripts ''are'' working, just not necessarily in the directories you are looking at.
 
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'''Step 2: Concatentating the files into one larger XML file (and running some preprocessing commands) '''
 
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&lt;COLL&gt;<br />&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;1&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;2&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;3&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />&lt;/COLL&gt;
 
-
 
- 
-
'''WARNING!''' If are extra characters or some other problem with the part of the program that strips out the xml declaration and the docytype declearation the file will end up like:
 
- 
-
 
-
&lt;COLL&gt;<br />baddata&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;1&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />baddata&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;2&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />baddata&lt;ead&gt;&lt;eadheader&gt;&lt;eadid&gt;3&lt;/eadid&gt;...&lt;/eadheader&gt;... content&lt;/ead&gt;<br />&lt;/COLL&gt;
 
- 
-
This will cause the document to be invalid since the dlxsead2002.dtd does not allow anything between the closing tag of one &lt;/ead&gt; and the opening tag of the next one &lt;ead&gt;
 
- 
-
Some of the possible causes of such a problem are:
 
- 
-
* UTF-8 Byte Order Marks at the beginning of the file
 
-
* DOCTYPE declaration on more than one line
 
-
* XML processing instructions
 
- 
-
'''Preprocessing steps'''
 
- 
-
The perl program also does some preprocessing on all the files. These steps are customized to the needs of the Bentley. You should look at the perl code and modify it so it is appropriate for your encoding practices.
 
- 
-
The preprocessing steps are:
 
- 
-
* finds all id attributes and prepends a number to them
 
-
* adds a prefix string "dao-bhl" to all DAO links (You probably will want to change this)
 
-
* removes empty <span class="unixcommand">persname</span>, <span class="unixcommand">corpname</span>, and <span class="unixcommand">famname</span> elements
 
- 
-
The output of the combined concatenation and preprocessing steps will be the one collection named xml file which is deposited into the obj subdirectory.
 
- 
-
If your collections need to be transformed in any way, or if you do not want the transformations to take place (the DAO changes, for example), edit preparedocs.pl file to effect the changes. Some changes you may want to make include:
 
- 
-
* Changing the algorithm used to make id attibute unique. For example if your encoding practices use id attributes and targets, the out-of-the-box algorithm will remove the relationship between the attributes and targets. One possible modification might be to modify the algorithm to prepend the eadid or filename to all id and target attributes.
 
-
* Modifying the program to read a list of files or list of eadids so that the files are concatenated in a particular order. The default sort order for search results is in occurance order, which translates to the order in which the eads are concatenated. If you write a script which looks at the eads for some element that you want to sort by and then outputs a list of filenames sorted by that order, you could then pass that file to a modified preparedocs.pl so it would concatenate the files in the order listed.
 
- 
-
----
 
- 
-
'''Step 3: Validating the concatenated file against the dlxsead2002 DTD'''
 
- 
-
<blockquote>
 
- 
-
make validate
 
- 
-
The Makefile runs the following command:
 
-
onsgmls -wxml -s -f $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.errors $DLXSROOT/misc/sgml/xml.dcl $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.xml.inp $DLXSROOT/obj/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.xml
 
- 
-
</blockquote>
 
- 
-
This runs the onsgmls command against the concatenated file using the dlxs2002dtd, and writes any errors to the workshopfa.errors file in the appropriate subdirectory in $DLXSROOT/prep/c/collection.. [validate.html More details]
 
- 
-
Note that we are running this using <span class="unixcommand">'''workshopfa.xml.inp'''</span> not <span class="unixcommand">'''workshop.text.inp'''</span>. The '''workshopfa.xml.inp '''file points to '''$DLXSROOT/misc/sgml/dlxsead2002.ead''' which is the ''dlxsead2002'' DTD. The ''dlxsead2002'' DTDis exactly the same as the ''EAD2002'' DTD, but adds a wrapping element, <span class="unixcommand">&lt;COLL&gt;</span>, to be able to combine more than one <span class="unixcommand">ead</span> element, more than one finding aid, into one file. The larger file will be indexed with XPAT tomorrow. It is, of course, a good idea to validate the file now before going further.
 
- 
-
Check for errors by looking for the file <span class="unixcommand">'''$DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.errors'''</span> which will be present and contain messages about what caused the file to be considered invalid if there are errors.
 
- 
-
If you see errors at this point (assuming there were no errors during the validateeach step) is that there was a problem with the preparedocs.pl processing. Some common causes of problems are:
 
- 
-
* The DOCTYPE declaration did not get completely removed. (The current scripts don't always remove multiline DOCTYPE declearations)
 
-
* There was a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark at the begginning of one or more of the concatenated files
 
- 
-
Run the following command
 
- 
-
<blockquote>
 
- 
-
ls -l $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.errors
 
- 
-
</blockquote>
 
- 
-
If there is a workshopfa.errors file then run the following command to look at the errors reported
 
- 
-
<blockquote>
 
- 
-
less $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.errors
 
- 
-
$ less $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.errors<br /> onsgmls:/l1/dev/tburtonw/misc/sgml/xml.dcl:1:W: SGML declaration was not implied<br />
 
- 
-
The above error can be ignored, but if you see any other errors '''STOP!''' You need to determine the cause of the problem, fix it, and rerun the steps until there are no errors from make validate. If you continue with the next steps in the process with an invalid xml document, the errors will compound and it will be very difficult to trace the cause of the problem.
 
- 
-
Note: To avoid seeing this error add the "-w no-explicit-sgml-decl" flag to the Makefile on line 83. Change line 83 of the Makefile
 
- 
-
from
 
- 
-
<blockquote>
 
- 
-
onsgmls -wxml -s -f $(PREPDIR)$(NAMEPREFIX).errors $(XMLDECL) $(XMLDOCTYPE) $(XMLFILE)
 
- 
-
</blockquote> to <blockquote>
 
- 
-
onsgmls -wxml -w no-explicit-sgml-decl -s -f $(PREPDIR)$(NAMEPREFIX).errors $(XMLDECL) $(XMLDOCTYPE) $(XMLFILE)
 
- 
-
</blockquote>
 
- 
-
''This will be fixed in the next release of DLXS Findaid Class. ''
 
- 
-
'''Step 4: Normalizing the concatenated file'''
 
- 
-
<blockquote>
 
- 
-
make norm
 
- 
-
The Makefile runs a series of copy statements and two main commands:
 
- 
-
 
-
1.) /l/local/bin/osgmlnorm -f $DLXSROOT/prep/s/samplefa/samplefa.errors $DLXSROOT/misc/sgml/xml.dcl $DLXSROOT$DLXSROOT/prep/s/samplefa/samplefa.xml.inp $DLXSROOT/obj/s/samplefa/samplefa.xml.prenorm &gt; /l1/dev/tburtonw/obj/s/samplefa/samplefa.xml.postnorm
 
- 
-
2.) /l/local/bin/osx -bUTF-8 -xlower -xempty -xno-nl-in-tag -f /l1/dev/tburtonw/prep/s/samplefa/samplefa.errors /l1/dev/tburtonw/misc/sgml/xml.dcl /l1/dev/tburtonw/prep/s/samplefa/samplefa.xml.inp /l1/dev/tburtonw/obj/s/samplefa/samplefa.xml.postnorm &gt; /l1/dev/tburtonw/obj/s/samplefa/samplefa.xml.postnorm.osx
 
- 
-
</blockquote>
 
- 
-
These commands ensure that your collection data is normalized. What this means is that any attributes are put in the order in which they were defined in the DTD. Even though your collection data is XML and attribute order should be irrelevant (according to the XML specification), due to a bug in one of the supporting libraries used by xmlrgn (part of the indexing software), attributes must appear in the order that they are definded in the DTD. If you have "out-of-order" attributes and don't run make norm, you will get ''"invalid endpoints"'' errors during the make post step.
 
- 
-
Step one, which normalizes the document writes its errors to <span class="unixcommand">$DLXSROOT/prep/s/samplefa/samplefa.errors</span>. Be sure to check this file.
 
- 
-
Step 2, which runs osx to convert the normalized document back into XML produces lots of error messages which are written to standard output. These are caused because we are using an XML DTD (the EAD 2002 DTD) and osx is using it to validate against the SGML document created by the osgmlnorm step. These are the only errors which may generally be ignored. However, if the next recommended step, which is to run "make validate" again reveals an invalid document, you may want to rerun osx and look at the errors for clues. (Only do this if you are sure that the problem is not being caused by XML processing instructions in the documents as explained below)
 
- 
-
'''Step 5: Validating the normalized file against the dlxsead2002 DTD'''
 
- 
-
<blockquote>
 
- 
-
make validate
 
- 
-
</blockquote>
 
- 
-
We run this step again to make sure that the normalization process did not produce an invalid document. This is necessary because under some circumstances the "make norm" step can result in invalid XML. One known cause of this is the presense of XML processing instructions. For example: '''"&lt;?Pub Caret1?&gt;"'''. Although XML processing instructions are supposed to be ignored by any XML application that does not understand them, the problem is that when we use sgmlnorm and osx, which are SGML tools, they end up munging the output XML. The recommended workaround is to add a preprocessing step to remove any XML processing instructions from your EADs before you run "make prepdocs", or to include some code in preparedocs.pl that will strip out XML priocessing instructions prior to concatenating the EADs.
 
- 
-
==Building the Index==
 
-
=== Build the XPAT Index ===
 
- 
-
Everything is now set up to build the XPAT index. The <span class="unixcommand">Makefile</span> in the <span class="unixcommand">bin</span> directory contains the commands necessary to build the index, and can be executed easily.
 
- 
-
To create an index for use with the Findaid Class interface, you will need to index the words in the collection, then index the XML (the structural metadata, if you will), and then finally "fabricate" structures based on a combination of elements (for example, defining who the "main author" of a finding aid is, without adding a <span class="unixcommand">&lt;mainauthor&gt;</span> tag around the appropriate <span class="unixcommand">&lt;author&gt;</span> in the <span class="unixcommand">eadheader</span> element). The following commands can be used to make the index:
 
- 
-
'''make singledd''' indexes words for texts that have been concatenated into on large file for a collection. This is the recommended process.
 
- 
-
'''make xml''' indexes the XML structure by reading the DTD. Validates as it indexes.
 
- 
-
'''make post''' builds and indexes fabricated regions based on the XPAT queries stored in the workshopfa.extra.srch file.
 
- 
-
<blockquote>
 
- 
-
cd $DLXSROOT/bin/w/workshopfa
 
-
make singledd
 
- 
-
</blockquote><blockquote>
 
- 
-
cp /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.blank.dd
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd
 
-
/l/local/xpat/bin/xpatbld -m 256m -D /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd
 
-
cp /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.presgml.dd
 
- 
-
</blockquote><blockquote>
 
- 
-
make xml
 
- 
-
</blockquote><blockquote>
 
- 
-
cp /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.presgml.dd
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd
 
-
/l/local/xpat/bin/xmlrgn -D /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/misc/sgml/xml.dcl
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.inp
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/obj/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.xml
 
-
 
-
cp /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.prepost.dd
 
- 
-
</blockquote><blockquote>
 
- 
-
make post
 
- 
-
</blockquote><blockquote>
 
- 
-
cp /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.prepost.dd
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd
 
-
touch /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.init
 
-
/l/local/xpat/bin/xpat -q /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd
 
-
&lt; /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.extra.srch
 
-
| /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/bin/t/text/output.dd.frag.pl
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/
 
-
&gt; /l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.extra.dd
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/bin/t/text/inc.extra.dd.pl
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.extra.dd
 
-
/l1/workshop/test02/dlxs/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd
 
- 
-
</blockquote>
 
- 
-
If you get an ''"invalid endpoints"'' message from "make post", the most likely cause is XML processing instructions or some other corruption. The second "make validate" step should have caught these. Other possible causes of errors during the "make post" step include syntax errors in workshopfa.extra.srch, or the absense of a particular region that is listed in the *.extra.srch file but not present in your collection. For example if you do not have any &lt;corpname&gt; elements in any of the EADs in your collection and you are using the out-of-the-box samplefa.extra.srch, you will see an error message when xpat tries to index the mainauthor region using this rule:
 
- 
-
<blockquote>
 
- 
-
 
-
((region "persname" + region "corpname" + region "famname" + region "name") within (region "origination" within ( re
 
-
gion "did" within (region "archdesc")))); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/mainauthor.rgn"}; exp
 
-
ort; ~sync "mainauthor";
 
- 
-
</blockquote>
 
- 
-
The easiest solution is to modify *extra.srch to match the characteristics of your collection. An alternative is to include a "dummy" EAD that contains all the elements that you expect in your collection with no content
 
- 
-
----
 
- 
-
=== Testing the index ===
 
- 
-
At this point it is a good idea to do some testing of the newly created index. Invoke xpat with the following commands
 
- 
-
xpatu $DLXSROOT/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd
 
- 
-
Try searching for some likely regions. Its a good idea to test some of the fabricated regions. Here are a few sample queries:
 
- 
-
&gt;&gt; region "ead"
 
-
1: 3 matches
 
-
 
-
&gt;&gt; region "eadheader"
 
-
2: 3 matches
 
-
 
-
&gt;&gt; region "mainauthor"
 
-
3: 3 matches
 
-
 
-
&gt;&gt; region "maintitle"
 
-
4: 3 matches
 
-
 
-
&gt;&gt; region "admininfo"
 
-
5: 3 matches
 
-
 
- 
-
----
 
- 
-
==Working with Fabricated Regions==
 
-
=== Fabricated Regions in FindaidClass ===
 
- 
-
The make post step and the testing steps above leads us into a discussion of the use of '''fabricated regions''' in FindaidClass. uses the <span class="unixcommand">workshopfa.extra.srch</span> file to add to the XPAT index.
 
- 
-
"Fabricated" is a term we use to describe what are essentially virtual regions in an XPat indexed text. See a [../xpat/fabregions.html basic description of what a fabricated region is and how they are created].
 
- 
-
In Finding Aids, we use fabricated regions for certain uninteresting regions simply so that some code can be shared. For example, the fabricated region "main" is set to refer to <span class="unixcommand">&lt;ead&gt;</span> in FindaidClass with:
 
- 
-
(region ead); {exportfile "/l1/idx/b/bhlead/main.rgn"}; export; ~sync "main";
 
- 
-
whereas in TextClass "main" can refer to <span class="unixcommand">&lt;TEXT&gt;</span>. Therfore, both FindaidClass and TextClass can share the Perl code, in a higher level subclass, that creates searches for "main".
 
- 
-
Other fabricated regions are used for searching such as the maintitle and mainauthor regions.
 
- 
-
The majority of the fabricated regions for Findaid Class are used for the creation and display of the left hand table of contents in the "outline" view. The findaidclass.cfg file contains a hash called %gSectHeadsHash which is normally loaded into FindaidClass.pm's tocheads hash in the FindaidClass::_initialize method. The elements of the hash and the corresponding fabiricated regions are used to create the table of contents and to output the XML for the corresponding section of the EAD when one of the TOC links is clicked on by a user. The fabricated regions are used so XPAT can have binary indexes ready to use for fast retrieval of these EAD sections.
 
- 
-
Some of the more interesting regions extracted from the samplefa.extra.srch file are listed below.
 
- 
-
One of these regions is the add. This used to be <span class="unixcommand">&lt;ADD&gt;</span> in the EAD 1.0 DTD, but now, is created based on the ead2002 DTD's <span class="unixcommand">&lt;descgrp&gt;</span> tag which contains a <span class="unixcommand">type</span> attribute of <span class="unixcommand">add</span>.
 
- 
-
A number of issues related to varying encoding practices can be resolved by the appropriate edits to the *.extra.srch file. (Although some of them may require changes to other files as well)
 
- 
-
* If your &lt;unititle&gt; element precedes your &lt;origination&gt; element in <span class="unixcommand">the top level &lt;did&gt;, you will have to modify the "maintitle" fabricated region query in *.extra.srch </span>
 
-
* If you do not use a &lt;frontmatter&gt; element, you will have to make modifications to various files including modifying *.extra.srch to provide an appropriate "Title Page" region based on the &lt;eadheader&gt;
 
-
* If your encoding practices for &lt;biohist&gt; differ from the Bentley's, you may need to make changes in the &lt;bioghist&gt; fabricated region although changes to other files may be suffient. The changes might include: modifying findaidclass.cfg or creating a subclass of FindaidClass and override FindaidClass:: GetBioghistTocHead, and/or changing the appropriate XSL files.
 
-
* If you want sections of the finding aid that are not completely within a well-defined element such as &lt;relatedmaterial&gt;or &lt;separatedmaterial&gt; to show up in the table of contents, you may have to create a fabricated region using the appropriate xpat query and then modify findaidclass.cfg and make other modifications to the code.
 
- 
-
----
 
-
<blockquote>
 
-
<pre>
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
(region ead); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/main.rgn"}; export; ~sync "main";
 
-
 
-
##
 
-
(((region "&lt;c01".."&lt;/did&gt;" + region "&lt;c02".."&lt;/did&gt;" + region "&lt;c03".."&lt;/did&gt;" + region "&lt;c04".."&lt;/did&gt;" + region "&lt;c05".."&lt;/did&gt;" + region "&lt;c06".."&lt;/did&gt;" + region "&lt;c07".."&lt;/did&gt;" + region "&lt;c08".."&lt;/did&gt;" + region "&lt;c09".."&lt;/did&gt;") not incl ("level=file" + "level=item")) incl "level="); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/c0xhead.rgn"}; export; ~sync "c0xhead";
 
-
##
 
-
((region "&lt;origination".."&lt;/unittitle&gt;") within ((region did within region archdesc) not within region dsc)); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/maintitle.rgn"}; export; ~sync "maintitle";
 
-
##
 
-
 
-
((region "persname" + region "corpname" + region "famname" + region "name") within (region "origination" within ( region "did" within (region "archdesc")))); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/mainauthor.rgn"}; export; ~sync "mainauthor";
 
-
##
 
-
 
-
(region "abstract" within ((region did within region archdesc) not within region "c01")); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/mainabstract.rgn"}; export; ~sync "mainabstract";
 
-
##
 
-
((region unitdate incl "encodinganalog=245$f") within ((region did within region archdesc) not within region dsc)); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/colldate.rgn"}; export; ~sync "colldate";
 
-
##
 
-
 
-
(region dsc); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/contentslist.rgn"}; export; ~sync "contentslist";
 
-
##
 
-
########## admininfo ########
 
-
admininfot = (region "descgrp-T" incl (region "A-type" incl "admin")); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/admininfo-t.rgn"}; export; ~sync "admininfo-t";
 
-
##
 
-
## ########## add ######
 
-
addt = (region "descgrp-T" incl (region "A-type" incl "add")); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/add-t.rgn"}; export; ~sync "add-t";
 
-
## ########## frontmatter/titlepage ########
 
-
frontmattert = region "frontmatter-T"; {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/frontmatter-t.rgn"}; export; ~sync "frontmatter-t";
 
-
##
 
-
# frontmatter itself not needed as fabricated region since it exists
 
-
# as a regular xml region
 
-
##
 
-
## ########## bioghist ########
 
-
bioghist = ((region "bioghist" within region "archdesc") not within region "dsc"); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/bioghist.rgn"}; export; ~sync "bioghist";
 
-
 
-
##bioghisthead = ((region "&lt;bioghist" .. "&lt;/head&gt;" within region "archdesc") not within region "dsc"); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/bioghisthead.rgn"}; export; ~sync "bioghisthead";
 
-
##
 
-
((region did within region archdesc) not within region dsc); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/summaryinfo.rgn"}; export; ~sync "summaryinfo";;
 
-
##
 
-
##
 
-
#############################
 
-
(region "subject" + region "corpname" + region "famname" + region "name" + region "persname" + region "geogname"); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/subjects.rgn"}; export; ~sync "subjects";
 
-
(region "corpname" + region "famname" + region "name" + region "persname"); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/names.rgn"}; export; ~sync "names";
 
-
 
-
 
-
#(region "odd-T" ^ (region odd not within region dsc)); {exportfile "/l1/workshop/user11/dlxs/idx/s/samplefa/odd-t.rgn"}; export; ~sync "odd-t";
 
-
</pre>
 
- 
-
</blockquote>
 
- 
-
See a [bhl.extra.srch.txt full listing of the <span class="unixcommand">extra.srch</span> file of the Bentley Historical Library's finding aids].
 
- 
-
----
 
- 
-
=== ''More Documentation'' ===
 
- 
-
* [http://www.dlxs.org/docs/13/class/findaid/indexing.html Indexing the Collection]
 
-
* [http://www.dlxs.org/docs/13/class/findaid/fabrgn.html Fabricated regions in Findaid Class]
 
- 
-
==Modifying Findaid Class Files==
 
-
==Mounting the Collection Online==
 
- 
-
[#Top go to table of contents]
 
- 
-
These are the final steps in deploying an Findaid Class collection online. Here the '''Collection Manager''' will be used to review the '''Collection Database''' entry for '''workshopfa''' . The '''Collection Manager''' will also be used to check the '''Group Database'''. Finally, we need to work with the collection map and the set up the collection's web directory.
 
- 
-
----
 
- 
-
=== Review the Collection Database Entry with CollMgr ===
 
- 
-
Each collection has a record in the collection database that holds collection specific configurations for the middleware. CollMgr (Collection Manager) is a web based interface to the collection database that provides functionality for editing each collection's record. Collections can be checked-out for editing, checked-in for testing, and released to production. In general, a new collection needs to have a CollMgr record created from scratch before the middleware can be used. If you are starting with the samplefa collmgr as a model make sure to change references from '''s/samplefa''' to '''w/workshopfa''' or whatever you are using for your collection name.
 
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==[http://www.dlxs.org/training/workshop200707/findaidclass/fcoutline.html Workshop Materials]==
==[http://www.dlxs.org/training/workshop200707/findaidclass/fcoutline.html Workshop Materials]==
==Working with the User Interface==
==Working with the User Interface==
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===[[Findaid Class Graphics Files]]===
 
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===[[Findaid Class Processing Instructions]]===
 
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* [[Customizing Findaid Class]]
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** [[Customizing Findaid Class#Working_with_the_table_of_contents |Working with the table of contents]]
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* [[Working with Fabricated Regions in Findaid Class]]
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* [[Troubleshooting Finding Aids#Common_Problems_and_Solutions |Common Problems and Solutions]]
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** [[Troubleshooting Finding Aids#Title_of_Finding_Aid_does_not_show_up |Title of Finding Aid does not show up]]
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===[[Findaid Class Graphics Files]]===
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Are there findaid class specific graphics files? The existing html docs actually point to a ../t/text/ directory and it appears that the graphics are generic and not at all specific to findaid class.
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===[[Findaid Class Processing Instructions]]===
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These are some current processing instructions for Finding Aids Class, but the DLXS group will not maintain this section.
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Main Page > Mounting Collections: Class-specific Steps > Mounting a Finding Aids Collection

This topic describes how to mount a Findaid Class collection.

Workshop materials are located at http://www.dlxs.org/training/workshop200707/findaidclass/fcoutline.html

Contents

[edit] Overview

The Finding Aids Class is in many ways similar in behavior to Text Class. Access minimally includes full text searching across collections or within a particular collection of Finding Aids, viewing Finding Aids in a variety of display formats, and creation of personal collections ("bookbag") of Finding Aids.

To mount a Finding Aids Collection, you will need to complete the following steps:

  1. Prepare your data and set up a directory structure
  2. Validate and normalize your data
  3. Build the Index
  4. Mount the collection online

[edit] Findaid Class Behaviors Overview

This section describes the basic Findaid Class behaviors.

[edit] Examples of Findaid Class Implementations and Practices

This section contains links to public implementations of DLXS Findaid Class as well as documentation on workflow and implementation issues. If you are a member of DLXS and have a collection or resource you would like to add, or wish to add more information about your collection, please edit this section.

University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library Finding Aids
Out-of-the-box DLXS 13 implementation.
Overview of Bentley's workflow process for Finding Aids
See also the links in Practical EAD Encoding Issues for background on the Bentley EAD workflow and encoding practices
Unversity of Tennesee Special Collections Libraries
DLXS Findaid Class version ?
University of Pittsburgh, Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aids
DLXS Findaid Class version ?
Background on Pittsburgh Finding Aids workflow
University of Wisconsin, Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids
DLXS Findaid Class version ?
University of Minnesota Libraries, Online Finding Aids
DLXS Findaid Class version ?
EAD Implementation at the University of Minnesota
Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids
Heavily customized DLXS11a. Background on Getty customization and user interface changes to DLXS
J. Paul Getty Trust Institutional Archives Finding Aids
Heavily customized DLXS11a.

[edit] Working with the EAD

[edit] Preparing Data and Directories

[edit] Finding Aids Data Preparation

[edit] Building the Index

[edit] Working with Fabricated Regions in Findaid Class

[edit] Customizing Findaid Class

[edit] Mounting the Collection Online

[edit] Troubleshooting Finding Aids

[edit] Linking from Finding Aids Using ID Resolver

[edit] Workshop Materials

[edit] Working with the User Interface

General user interface customizations, such as changing rendering style (CSS) or making changes to the XSL are covered in Customizing the User Interface. Specific user-interface issues related to Findaid Class are discussed in the following sections:

[edit] Findaid Class Graphics Files

Are there findaid class specific graphics files? The existing html docs actually point to a ../t/text/ directory and it appears that the graphics are generic and not at all specific to findaid class.

[edit] Findaid Class Processing Instructions

These are some current processing instructions for Finding Aids Class, but the DLXS group will not maintain this section.

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