On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Bess Sadler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>
>>> We indexed each EAD guide into separate lucene documents for each EAD section, then collapsed them under the main EAD title in the search results,
>>
>> Curious how you impelemented that: Did you use the Solr "field collapsing" patch that's not yet part of a standard distro?
>
> Yes, exactly.

Bess - would you be willing to share code or brief notes about how to
set this up?

> Yeah, that's a good point. We were trying to self-contain the whole thing for ease of deployment, but I'm not sure that's a good approach. It's better if your EAD is in a real repository and Blacklight just presents it.

+1. Potential options could include using an XML database like eXist,
or using our approach at Yale (where EAD finding aids are stored as
datastreams in Fedora objects). I've been eager to look at rethinking
our approach, especially given the availability of the Hydra codebase.

Mark A. Matienzo
Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives
Yale University Library