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Dear Code4Lib community, I'm moving on from my summer project--creating an EAD-to-VuFind conversion program that allows one to index EAD files for a standard VuFind/Solr implementation--and want to make my project available to you in case anyone can benefit from it. A brief summary: This summer, I worked on a couple of projects for DAIAD—the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department (Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame). One of DAIAD’s ongoing projects is the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (more informally, the “Catholic Portal”)—a VuFind index on a Solr server that stores rare or unique resources from a number of institutions that in some way pertain to the academic field of Catholic studies (especially American Catholic Studies). VuFind currently only works with MARC records, though it has the capacity to be upgraded to work with other kinds of records. My task for the CRRA was to code a program in Java to convert EAD files to the VuFind schema; after conversion, I had to send them to a Solr server that uses the VuFind schema, as a trial run before sending them to the CRRA server. As my tools, I used Eclipse on Windows XP. Because the Solr/VuFind installation I wanted to use was on a server and not my hard drive, and because it only accepted commands originating on said server, I had to deploy my code to the server to test it. I used an ANT build script to copy my to make my Eclipse-based code to the Linux server, where it could be run from the Linux command line. I also used properties files to contain environment specific information like the address of each Solr installation and the path to the EAD files on the current machine—properties files which the build script partially configured for me. The result is rough, but it works. If everything is set up properly (e.g., .dtd file can be found by every EAD file, .properties files contain the right paths, etc.), CRRASolrIndexer parses a series of EAD files, maps their data into objects representing VuFind records, and sends the records to a Solr server. They can then be searched for through the VuFind interface. (VuFind’s display of EAD records is also very rough at this point, but improvements are in the works.) I will no longer be maintaining this code, but it’s available (with more documentation) if anyone wants to use it at http://code.google.com/p/crrasolrindexer/ . Take care, Stephen Little University of Notre Dame LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenmalittle