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

1 Overview
- 1.1 Findaid Class Behaviors Overview
- 1.2 Examples of Findaid Class Implementations and Practices
2 Working with the EAD
3 Preparing Data and Directories
4 Finding Aids Data Preparation
5 Building the Index
6 Working with Fabricated Regions in Findaid Class
7 Customizing Findaid Class
8 Mounting the Collection Online
9 Troubleshooting Finding Aids
10 Linking from Finding Aids Using ID Resolver
11 Workshop Materials
12 Working with the User Interface
- 12.1 Findaid Class Graphics Files
- 12.2 Findaid Class Processing Instructions

[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:

[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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