Workshop Outline

1. Introductions and course objectives
   
2. Administrative details (Robyn)
   
3. Demonstration: (Chris and John ) Findaid Class and Image Class Functionality (structured searching, presentation of results, sessions, bookbag/portfolio, etc.)
   
4. Overview (Alan)
   1. XPAT
   2. Web Server
   3. Authentication / Authorization System
   4. Directory Structure
   5. Collection Database and Collection Manager
   6. Middleware
      
5. Installation (Phil)
   1. Discussion of XPAT installation
   2. Actual installation of Middleware (for this workshop, only one XPAT installation, but one entire Middleware and data installation with DLXSROOT, virtual host and MySQL database per participant)
      1. The install process
      2. Install steps
      3. Post-install step
   3. Multiple release strategy
      
6. Findaid Class and Image Class Sample Data (Chris and John)
   1. Configuration
   2. Trial run of installed system
      
7. Troubleshooting Middleware (Phil)
   
8. Database Migration (José)
   
9. XPAT (Alan)
   1. Discussion of text and region indexing
   2. Searching / Query Language
      1. Searching
      2. "quieton raw" mode
   3. fabricated regions
      
10. Unicode (Phil)
    
11. Findaid Class (Chris and Alan)
    1. Encoding Practices and Processes (guest speaker, Greg Kinney of the Bentley Historical Library)
       1. ead2002 (Findaid Class) DTD Overview
       2. Practical EAD Encoding Issues
       3. Data Preparation
    2. Findaid Class Index Building with XPAT
       • Set Up Directories and Files for XPAT Indexing
       • Build the XPAT Index
    3. Findaid Class Collection to Web
       • Review the Collection Database Entry with CollMgr
       • Review the Groups Database Entry with CollMgr
       • Make Collection Map
       • Set Up the Collection's Web Directory
       • Try It Out
         
    4. Linking from Finding Aids Using the ID Resolver
12. Image Class (John)
    1. Content Preparation
    2. Indexing with XPAT
    3. Collection to Web
    4. Collection Customization
    5. Other / Advanced Topics
       
13. User Interface Issues (Matt)
    1. HTML Templates
    2. Findaid Class
    3. Image Class
       
14. Bib Class(Kat), OAI, Broker (José)
    
15. Other Topics, possibly including:
    1. TextClass
    2. OAI
       
16. Future Directions
    1. XSLT filtering
    2. METS
       
17. Wrap up (Everyone)
    1. General Questions