Mounting a Finding Aids Collection

From DLXS Documentation

Finding Aids Workshop Quick Reference.

Return to main workshop page: http://dev.umdl.umich.edu/d/dlxs/training/workshop200808 ( redo to point to production)

Prepare Directories and Copy Files

Set up directories and files for Data Preparation

For more details see: Step by step instructions for setting up Directories for Data Preparation

To check your $DLXSROOT, type the following command at the command prompt:

echo $DLXSROOT

Create your prep and prep/data directories

mkdir -p $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/data
cd $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa

Copy data to your data directory

cp $DLXSROOT/prep/s/samplefa/data/*.xml $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/data/.

Copy doctype declaration files:

cp $DLXSROOT/prep/s/samplefa/samplefa.ead2002.dcl   $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.ead2002.dcl
cp $DLXSROOT/prep/s/samplefa/samplefa.concat.ead.dcl $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.concat.ead.dcl

Create the obj and bin directories and copy files to your bin directory:

mkdir -p $DLXSROOT/obj/w/workshopfa
mkdir -p $DLXSROOT/bin/w/workshopfa
cp $DLXSROOT/bin/s/samplefa/preparedocs.pl $DLXSROOT/bin/w/workshopfa/preparedocs.pl
cp $DLXSROOT/bin/s/samplefa/Makefile $DLXSROOT/bin/w/workshopfa/Makefile

   1  DLXSROOT = /l1
   2  NAMEPREFIX = samplefa
   3  FIRSTLETTERSUBDIR = s

Set Up Directories and Files for XPAT Indexing

For more details see:Set Up Directories and Files for XPAT Indexing

Create your index directory:

mkdir -p $DLXSROOT/idx/w/workshopfa

Copy the template files "samplefa.blank.dd" and "samplefa.extra.srch" to your prep dir:

cp $DLXSROOT/prep/s/samplefa/samplefa.blank.dd  $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.blank.dd
cp $DLXSROOT/prep/s/samplefa/samplefa.extra.srch $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.extra.srch

Edit both of these files to reflect the new collection name and the paths to your particular directories.

cd $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa

Edit the files to change all samplefa and s/samplefa to workshopfa w/workshopfa

After editing the files, you can check to make sure you changed all the "samplefa" strings with the following command:

grep -l "samplefa" $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/*

Data Preparation

For more details see: Finding Aids Data Preparation

Validating and Normalizing Your Data

Step 1: Validating the files individually against the EAD 2002 DTD

cd $DLXSROOT/bin/w/workshopfa
make validateeach

Check the error files by running the following commands

 ls -l $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/data/*err

if there are any *err files, you can look at them with the following command:

 less  $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/data/*err

Step 2: Concatentating the files into one larger XML file (and running some preprocessing commands)

cd $DLXSROOT/bin/w/workshopfa
make prepdocs

Step 3: Validating the concatenated file against the dlxsead2002 DTD

make validate

Check for errors by running the following command

 ls -l $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.errors

If there is a workshopfa.errors file then run the following command to look at the errors reported

 less $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.errors

Step 4: Normalizing the concatenated file

make norm

Check for normalization errors:

less $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.osgmlnorm.errors

Step 5: Validating the normalized file against the dlxsead2002 DTD

make validate2

Check the resulting error file:

less $DLXSROOT/prep/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.errors2

Indexing

For more details see: Building the Index

Step by Step Instructions for Indexing

Step 1: Indexing the text

Index all the words in the file of concatenated EADs with the following command:

cd $DLXSROOT/bin/w/workshopfa
make singledd

Step 2: Indexing the the XML

Index all the elements and attributes listed in the ead DTD that occur in the file of concatenated EADs by running the following command:

make xml

After running this step, if you wish, you can see the indexed regions by issuing the following commands:

xpatu $DLXSROOT/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd
>> {ddinfo regionnames}
>> quit

You can also test out the xpat queries in your workshopfa.extra.srch file. See Testing Fabricated Regions

Step 3: Configuring fabricated regions

We don't need to do this for the workshop as the fabricated region file does not need any customization. However, for practice, lets just look at the regions in our data.

• Once you have run "make xml", but before you run "make post", start up xpatu running against the newly created indexes:

 xpatu $DLXSROOT/idx/w/workshopfa/workshopfa.dd

then run the command

 >> {ddinfo regionnames}

This will give you a list of all the XML elements, and attributes

Step 4: Indexing fabricated regions

Index the fabricated regions specified in your workshopfa.extra.srch that occur in the file of concatenated EADs with the following command:

make post

Collection to Web

Details on setting up the collection in Collmgr are here: Mounting the Collection Online

Make Collection Map

You can use the following commands to copy the samplefa.map file to use as a basis for your collection:

 cd $DLXSROOT/misc/f/findaid/maps
 cp samplefa.map workshopfa.map

Set Up the Collection's Web Directory

After setting up the Collection in Collmgr and making a collection map, you can set up a default home page called index.html:

For a minimal collection, you will want two files: index.html and FindaidClass-specific.css.

mkdir -p $DLXSROOT/web/w/workshopfa
cp $DLXSROOT/web/s/samplefa/index.html $DLXSROOT/web/w/workshopfa/index.html
cp $DLXSROOT/web/s/samplefa/findaidclass-specific.css $DLXSROOT/web/w/workshopfa/findaidclass-specific.css

Edit the index.html file!

Create a Browse Page

After setting the Browse Page settings in Collmgr Setting_up_Dynamic_Browsing you can run the ub script to populate the browse table with the following command:

$DLXSROOT/bin/browse/ub -C findaid -c workshopfa