Hi Ed,

At Pitt we're putting digital object identifiers into Archivists' Toolkit.
We're doing folder-level digitization, except in rare cases. When the
resultant EAD is transformed to HTML the identifier is wrapped into an
actionable URL and the size of the linked document is retrieved to
incorporate into the link text (some are many MB).  Presentation is
currently a direct link to a PDF bundle of the folder contents, but the
plan is to eventually point to an object landing page with multiple viewing
/ download options and richer item-level information than would appear in
the finding aid container list.  We're also interested in the reverse
linkage - from digitized manuscripts in a more general "digital
collections" pool back to their specific collection context.

Example of current online presentation: American Left Ephemera Collection
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?cc=ascead&rgn=main&view=text&didno=US-PPiU-ais200711



On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Daron Dierkes <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> What alternatives has your survey suggested?  Would anyone suggest that a
> finding aid and its digital contents should not be in communication?
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Steven Majewski <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Johnston, Leslie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > I suspect there are some in Virginia Heritage, but I don't know how to
> > limit a search to finding aids with links.
> > >
> > > http://vaheritage.org/
> >
> > No way to search by links, as hrefs are part of xml tags and only text,
> > not tags are indexed.
> > ( Searching for “http” , for example, finds all of the URLs written in
> > plain text only. No links. )
> >
> > But if you need an example, the guide with the most links is probably
> this
> > one:
> >
> > A Calendar of The Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia
> Jefferson
> > Papers of the University of Virginia, Calendar Multiple-numbers
> >
> >
> > — Steve Majewski / UVA Alderman Library
> >
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of
> > >> Edward Summers
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 10:39 AM
> > >> To: [log in to unmask]
> > >> Subject: [CODE4LIB] links from finding aid to digital object
> > >>
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> I was wondering if anyone can point me at example(s) of finding aids
> > >> (either EAD XML or HTML) that are linked to digital object of some
> > >> kind. For example a container list that links to a digital image that
> > >> is available on the Web.
> > >>
> > >> I'm doing a bit of an informal survey so if you see someone has
> > >> responded, but you have a different example please send it along
> either
> > >> here on list or to me directly.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks!
> > >> //Ed
> > >>
> > >> PS. sorry for the duplication.
> >
> >
>