Adding Finding Aids with Adding Finding Aids with CONTENTdm 5’s Built-in SupportCONTENTdm 5’s Built-in Support

Western CONTENTdm Users Group MeetingWestern CONTENTdm Users Group MeetingJune 3, 2010June 3, 2010

Sara Amato - sara.amato@gmail.com

Getting Started

http://www.contentdm.org/help5/projectclient/adding5.asp

Collection Creation and Indexing

Create searchable fields that will map to EAD elements• 47 EAD elements can be mapped. • See ”Available Tags for Metadata Mapping” • Data from EAD is mapped to these fields in project

client, and is indexed.

Also, if you have a ‘full text search’ field in the collection, the entire EAD text is also put into that field and indexed.

About Stylesheets

In order to process an EAD finding aid, CONTENTdm uses three default stylesheets:

description_default.xsl generates the description section of the finding aid contentslist_default.xsl generates the contents list section of the finding aid fullfindingaid_default.xsl generates the full finding aid view

These files are located within the CONTENTdm Project Client\EAD directory.

Drive or Network Location\ Program Files\OCLC\CONTENTdm Project Client\EAD

We edited these to make display more like NWDA, and Utah folks will recognize the search box …..

Project Client Process

Looking Forward to Fixes…<daoloc> support

http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/nwda-search/fstyle.aspx?doc=OWSMss015.xml

SR#1-675603095 – should be fixed in next release of project client this summer

Inner frame not getting head info

Bug Tracking #CDM-1475. Fixed in 5.4

In Summary

+ Easy to get them up+ No additional programming needed

- One at a time- Stylesheets on client side- Original XML file not on server

(unless you have archival file turned on and online… which we ended up doing)

- Not synced with NWDA

Sara.Amato@gmail.com