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I'd give Marcedit a shot. It can convert your delimited file to MARC which you can then run through its MARC to EAD converter. kyle On Fri, May 4, 2018, 12:37 PM Yamil Suarez <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > At our library we need to import an archival collection's EAD data file > into Archivist Toolkit v2.0. The first need is that we want to avoid having > to write up the EAD file completely by hand. Therefore we want to first > input the collection's data into a CSV file, Excel, or similar tool. The > second need is that we want to end up with an EAD file that Archivist > Toolkit v2.0's builtin EAD XML schema will accept. > > Previously we have tried using EADMachine[1], which is currently not being > actively maintained, and at the time we had some schema issues when > importing the resulting EAD file into Archivist Toolkit. For all I know it > may have been our fault that we could not get it to work. I have not yet > looked at the successor of EADmachine called asInventory[2], which is meant > for use with Archives Space. Right now I am looking at the "Yale Archival > Management Systems Committee: Excel to EAD"[3] solution, but I am also > having issues with converting the data we put in their pre-formatted Excel > file into an EAD file. In this case we had a good chunk of data not carried > over to the exported EAD file. Again, we may be doing something wrong, for > example we currently are stuck with using Excel's XML Spreadsheet 2004 > file format and not the Yale required/suggested Excel 2003 XML format. > > Therefore, I was wondering what others are doing out there for > programmatically creating EAD files from delimited data, and then import > into Archivist Toolkit. Perhaps many of you are just using some of the > tools above without issues. I can keep trying to make them work, but any > tips are welcome. > > Alternatively, I can try to write something in Python/PHP/Perl to at least > programmatically batch create parts of the EAD XML from the collection's > data we have in delimited files, then stitch it together with EAD XML > content that we write by hand. > > Thanks in advance, > Yamil > > [1] https://github.com/gwiedeman/eadmachine > [2] https://github.com/UAlbanyArchives/asInventory > [3] https://github.com/UAlbanyArchives/asInventory > > > > -------------------------------- > > Yamil Suarez, MCS > Associate Director of Library Systems & Web Development > > Stan Getz Library > Berklee College of Music > 1140 Boylston St > Boston, MA 02215 > > [log in to unmask] > 617-747-2617 > > pronouns: he/his/him >