[Archon-L] import utility

[Chris Prom]

Francis,

Can you provide me a sample of the dates that are not importing 
correctly?

As you guessed, the EAD import script we wrote was very specific 
to our markup practices.  We are planning to work more on it at 
some piont, but if you want to play with the script itself, you 
need to modify the file import-ead.inc.php in the admin/databases 
folder on the webserver where archon is installed.

Before attempting this, please be aware that this is one of the 
more complicated files in the program, and you should save a copy 
of the file as backup before attempting it.

Thanks,

Chris

--

Christopher J. Prom
Assistant University Archivist
University of Illinois Archives
19 Library
1408 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801

phone:	217.333.0798
fax:	217.333.2868
e-mail:	prom at uiuc.edu
web:	http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Francis Kayiwa wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> With apologies since I have very little (none really :-)) if any
> experience with EAD-DTD. I've had difficulty trying to use it to
> import our current XML documents into archon. tested on v.1.0
>
> From what I can tell by running the cmp on my unix machine is that
> there is a subtle difference between the way our institution labels
> containers, dates and subjects. The result is that the XML will get
> imported but some key elements which are of importance to our Special
> Collections department are getting left out.
>
> We wrote a few hacks to clean up our XML documents to best mimic
> UIUCs XML documents -which we assume would have to work since it was
> invented there. :-). (Here also I speculate that the lack of EAD-DTD
> experience can be blamed)
>
> We were nominally successful in this venture but the date range still
> seems to give our Special Collections librarian pause in fully
> endorsing/embracing Archon :-(
>
> I was wondering if there was anyone who can shed insight on this. I
> am happy to share our hacks. Or should we just gain expertise on EAD?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> ./fxk
>
>
> ===============
> Francis Kayiwa
> Library Systems Team
> 4-180, MC 234
> T: +1.312.996.2716
> W: http://www.uic.edu/~kayiwa
> Key: http://tigger.uic.edu/~kayiwa/kayiwa.gpg
>
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin)
>
> iD8DBQFGB8r1N+YGKSXdLhkRAi4cAKCMgNlLizGmriNLliAPpH8Isg3tUACdHfPo
> HZ/q7mOYV1ICdcww+PIgW/0=
> =fe70
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> _______________________________________________
> Archon mailing list
> Archon at archon.org
> http://archon.org/mailman/listinfo/archon_archon.org
>