Hi Daniel,
Word and EAD aren't really equivalent concepts. The sample Word document
that you post looks like it follows some type of definition of rules for
the structure. Potentially if you had a lot of these documents, one
could write a script to convert to the Word document to a raw text files
(assuming the formatting doesn't provide any semantic meaning), then use
text parser to isolate various discrete expression from the Word
document and map it into an EAD structure. This may be tricky is the
Word documents don't all follow the same rules and also if the Word
document does not provide enough data to meet the minimal requirements
of an EAD expression.
David Rice
AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
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On 10/7/10 1:43 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
Hi Daniel,
I don't see how this will be possible. A program can't make semantically
appropriate decisions for mapping prose to EAD tags. You'll just have to go
with the copy-paste method in something like oXygen.
Ethan Gruber
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Cornwall, Daniel D (EED)<
daniel.cornw...@alaska.gov> wrote:
Hi All,
While I think what I'm looking for doesn't exist, I wanted to ask some
experts before making confident assertions.
Our institution has a lot of finding aids for photo and manuscript
collections in MS Word Format. They have pretty standard subheadings. An
example can be found at
www.library.state.ak.us/hist/hist_docs/finding_aids/MS220.doc
<http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/hist_docs/finding_aids/MS220.doc> .
I've had inquiries about getting these Word finding aids converted to
EAD (Encoded Archival Description) through some sort of converter. I
haven't been able to locate any such program, but maybe that's a
reflection on my searching skills.
There are a number of programs to create EAD finding aids from scratch
and I've recommended acquiring one of these programs and getting staff
to rekey/copy& paste from Word into the EAD finding aid program. Staff
are not willing to do this at least until I can demonstrate that there
is no automated way to convert our finding aids. Of course, if there is
a converter, so much the better.
Thanks in advance for any enlightenment you can give me. - Daniel
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