Workshop Outline
- Introductions and course objectives
- Administrative details (Robyn)
- Demonstration:
(Chris and John ) Findaid Class and Image Class Functionality (structured
searching, presentation of results, sessions, bookbag/portfolio, etc.)
- Overview
(Alan)
- XPAT
- Web
Server
- Authentication / Authorization
System
- Directory Structure
- Collection
Database and Collection Manager
- Middleware
- Installation
(Phil)
- Discussion of XPAT installation
- 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)
- The install process
- Install steps
- Post-install
step
- Multiple release strategy
- Findaid
Class and Image Class Sample Data (Chris
and John)
- Configuration
- Trial run of installed system
- Troubleshooting Middleware
(Phil)
- Database Migration (José)
- XPAT
(Alan)
- Discussion
of text and region indexing
- Searching
/ Query Language
- Searching
- "quieton
raw" mode
- fabricated regions
- Unicode (Phil)
- Findaid
Class (Chris and Alan)
- Encoding Practices and Processes (guest speaker, Greg Kinney
of the Bentley Historical Library)
- ead2002 (Findaid Class) DTD Overview
- Practical EAD Encoding Issues
- Data Preparation
- Findaid
Class Index Building with XPAT
- Set
Up Directories and Files for XPAT Indexing
- Build
the XPAT Index
- 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
- Linking from Finding Aids Using the ID Resolver
- Image Class (John)
- Content
Preparation
-
Indexing with XPAT
-
Collection to Web
-
Collection Customization
- Other
/ Advanced Topics
- User
Interface Issues (Matt)
- HTML Templates
- Findaid Class
- Image
Class
- Bib Class(Kat), OAI, Broker (José)
- Other Topics, possibly including:
- TextClass
- OAI
- Future Directions
- XSLT filtering
- METS
- Wrap up (Everyone)
- General Questions