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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