Daniel,
I don't have a solution directly from Word. If you can get the
container lists converted to a spreadsheet and exported as CSV, then a
Ruby gem I wrote might help [1]. It accepts a properly headed CSV file
and exports valid EAD XML. The implementation is basic right now, but
I'll be
Hi All,
While I think what I'm looking for doesn't exist, I wanted to ask some
experts before making confident assertions.
Our institution has a lot of finding aids for photo and manuscript
collections in MS Word Format. They have pretty standard subheadings. An
example can be found at
Hi Daniel,
I don't see how this will be possible. A program can't make semantically
appropriate decisions for mapping prose to EAD tags. You'll just have to go
with the copy-paste method in something like oXygen.
Ethan Gruber
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Cornwall, Daniel D (EED)
Hi Daniel,
Word and EAD aren't really equivalent concepts. The sample Word document
that you post looks like it follows some type of definition of rules for
the structure. Potentially if you had a lot of these documents, one
could write a script to convert to the Word document to a raw text
On Oct 7, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Nathan Tallman wrote:
Chances are you would have to reformat all your finding aids to
the new format, which may be as time consuming as hand coding
...If faced with these two options, I would opt for hand coding. You will
learn so much more about EAD and
: Thursday, October 07, 2010 01:36 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Looking for a Word to EAD converter
Hi All,
While I think what I'm looking for doesn't exist, I wanted to ask some
experts before making confident assertions.
Our institution has a lot of finding aids for photo
