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EAD without XSLTa practical approach to archival finding aids
Trevor Thornton
Senior Applications Developer, NYPL Labs
The New York Public Library
Project goals
• Enable multiple presentations of
the same data
• Support dynamic web applications
• Cross-collection search with
component-level specificity in
results, and faceting on common
access points
System overview
Ruby on Rails
+ MySQL
+ SOLR
Key functionality:
Data Import
Search index
API
Core models
Collection model
Each collection:
•must have onedescription
•may have one or more components
•may be associated withone or more access terms
Component model
Each component:
•must belong to one collection
•must have one description
•may have one parent component
•may have one or morechild components
•may be associated withone or more access terms
Component hierarchy attributes
• collection_id (id of root collection)
• parent_id (id of parent component)
• sib_seq (sibling sequence)
• level_num (numeric level within hierarchy)
• level_text (series, sub-series, file, etc.)
• has_children
• max_levels
• top_component_id
Computed after initial data import; provided
as a convenience for finding aid UIs and to
streamline formulation of API responses
Description model
Elements of description organized (roughly) based on ISAD(G):
•Descriptive identityISAD(G) 3.1
•ContextISAD(G) 3.2.1 - 3.2.3
•Acquisition & processingISAD(G) 3.2.4, 3.3.2-3.3.3
•Content and structureISAD(G) 3.3.1, 3.3.4
•Access and useISAD(G) 3.4
•Related materialISAD(G) 3.5
•NotesISAG(G) 3.6
Description model: basic EAD mapping
Description model: JSON format{ "unitid": [ { "value": "3283", "type": "local_mss" } ], "unittitle": [ { "value": "David Ames Wells papers" } ], "unitdate": [ { "type": "inclusive", "normal": "1847/1895", "value": "1847-1895" } ], "physdesc_extent":[ { "value": ".5 linear feet", "unit":"linear feet" }, { "value": "2 boxes", "unit":"containers" } ], "abstract": [ { "value": "David Ames Wells was an engineer, economist, textbook author, and advocate for lower tariff rates. This collection contains correspondence with Gordon L. Ford, Worthington C. Ford, and others; clippings; a manuscript draft of Protection: The Poor Man's Friend; and a lecture Wells delivered on free trade in 1882"} ], "prefercite": [ { "value": "<p>David Ames Wells papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>" } ]}
EAD as a guide for data storage
• EAD elements that allow only CDATA are stored as
plain strings
• EAD elements that require content to be structured in
<p> or other block elements stored as HTML
• Rules established for converting EAD to HTML
when necessary
• HTML conversion designed to support re-conversion
back to EAD
Special handling for dates
• Dates are hardo Inclusive dates and bulk dates
o Multiple date formats
o Ranges, lists and both
• Special data structure for dates:o date_statement (original text)
o inclusive_start / inclusive_end
o bulk_start / bulk_end
o keydate (for ordering query response – earliest inclusive date
or earliest bulk date when present)
o index_dates (for search faceting – every year included in range/list)
Access Term model
Refinement of Access Term/Access Term Association models
Data import
• It’s messy business
• Bulk of work has focused on EAD;Nokogiri used extensively for parsing XML
• Basic process for EAD import:1. Create collection record
2. Extract collection-level data,create/save description
3. Extract access terms, and for eacha. Save if it doesn’t already existb. Save collection/term association
4. Extract top-level components, and for each:a. Create component recordb. Extract component-level data,
create/save descriptionc. Extract/save access terms & associationsd. Extract child components and repeat for each
Integration with NYPL digital repository
• Fedora repository
+ custom metadata creation/digitization workflow system
+ API to query repository data
• All records in repository identified with UUID
• UUID of digital object associated with a given component
is stored locally in archives data system
• Best case scenario: common identifiers appear in
archival description and in Fedora
Apache Solr
• Inter- and intra-collection search
• Collocation via faceting and filter queries
• Using RSolr to facilitate interaction with Solr
(for both search and index)
API
• API development is proceeding in step with finding aid
development – available requests added as needed
• Basic requests:
o Collection-level data
o Components of a collection,
or sub-components of a componento Includes all component-level descriptive datao Max. depth can be specified
o Digital assets associated with
a component
Finding aid prototype
Finding aid prototype
Front-end system overview
Considerations for future development
• Separate API from data management?
o Data management app to handle all create/update/destroy
operations, while API (Sinatra?) is read-only
o Open API to public? Security/load considerations…
• ArchivesSpace
o NYPL is considering it as a possible replacement for
our existing ‘home-grown’ system
o How would this system integrate with ArchivesSpace API?
• Upcoming EAD revision
some code to look at and/or borrow from:
github.com/nypl/archives_data_public
finding aid prototype:
archives.nypl.org
me:
trevorthornton@nypl.org
NYPL Labs:
nypl.org/labs
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