Mounting a Finding Aids Collection
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This topic describes how to mount a Findaid Class collection.
Workshop materials are located at http://www.dlxs.org/training/workshop200707/findaidclass/fcoutline.html
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:
- Prepare your data and set up a directory structure
- Validate and normalize your data
- Build the Index
- Mount the collection online
Findaid Class Behaviors Overview
This section describes the basic Findaid Class behaviors.
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 ?
- 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.
Working with the EAD
Preparing Data and Directories
Finding Aids Data Preparation
Building the Index
Working with Fabricated Regions in Findaid Class
Customizing Findaid Class
Mounting the Collection Online
Troubleshooting Finding Aids
Linking from Finding Aids Using ID Resolver
Workshop Materials
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:
- Customizing Findaid Class
- Working with Fabricated Regions in Findaid Class
- Common Problems and Solutions
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.
Findaid Class Processing Instructions
We decided that we could not maintain a list of class specific processing instructions so this section should probably be cut.
