Presentation
Spaceport: A Finding Aid Launchpad
Libraries
Publication Date
10-24-2019
Document Type
Presentation
Abstract
JMU Libraries distributes its Special Collections finding aids to a number of discovery platforms, a process which historically has involved a significant amount of hand-encoding and manual data entry. We recently developed and implemented Spaceport, a Python app that has revolutionized this workflow. This presentation provides an overview of the app's functionality, which includes generating EADs for Virginia Heritage, HTML files for upload to the Libraries website, and MARCXML records for our catalog and OCLC. It also describes the efficiencies and other benefits we have observed from Spaceport's use.
Disciplines
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
Citation Information
Rebecca B French. "Spaceport: A Finding Aid Launchpad" (2019) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rebeccafrench/7/
Lightning talk given at the VIVA Users' Group Meeting at the 2019 Virginia Library Association Annual Conference in Norfolk, VA.