University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign A Unified Platform for Archival Description and Access Christopher J. Prom, Christopher A. Rishel, Scott W. Schwartz, Kyle J. Fox Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Vancouver, BC, June 21, 2007 Presenter: Chris Prom ([email protected]) Assistant University Archivist University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign www.archon.org
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Unified Platform for Archival Description and Access
Christopher J. Prom, Christopher A. Rishel, Scott W. Schwartz, Kyle J. Fox
Joint Conference on Digital LibrariesVancouver, BC, June 21, 2007
Presenter: Chris Prom ([email protected])Assistant University Archivist
– Access from any computer– Integrated access system– staff editing fully integrated with public website
• Output flexibility– Search– Browse (creator, title, subject/function, record group, digital object title)– EAD– MARC– Other formats can be defined (OAI, METS) in archon/styles folder
• Requires no knowledge of XML; integrated help system• But supports all relevant archival descriptive standards (EAD, DACS)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
•Browse•Search•Description•Link to finding aid•Subject links•Digital object access•Creator authorities
Filtering and linking creator authorities, subject files, etc
‘Filter and link’ method used for creators, subjects, genres, languages
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Content Manager
Used to create finding
aids/box and folder
lists
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Other areas of description available in collection manager
Listing Locations
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Implementation
• Requirements, Installation• Uses widely-supported web technologies:
– Any web server with PHP 5.0 or higher– A blank MySQL or MSSQL database with network
connection– Optimized for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• Visual Basic install packet; define database name, login, pswd, webserver address, upload directory or FTP site; can also install manually.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Documentation and API• Illustrated System Administrator and User Manuals• API fully documented via php documentor• Object-oriented, correspondence between database and
class/object/variable names• Class ARCHON has system-level functions, to process
arrays, etc.• BUT. . . most customizations never touch the Archon
API itself; few implementing institutions or developers will need to be aware of it beyond calling functions
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Database Server (MySQL & MSSQL currently supported)
Database Module (translates queries to specific syntax)