ALEG

What I've done

• Thesaurus - Ben's been plugging away at the mapping, but late winter/early spring illness has taken its toll on the health of a few of the ADFA staff, so there is still much to be done.

• A few minor changes to stylesheet formatting (pending the major changes, which will begin next week), a new worktype (website) and external reference was added as an attribute to a source

• Megan devised an EAD template for the Lu Rees data which I used to map the data from the 30 Lu Rees database tables. The end result was about 250 finding aids in EAD format! We discussed the results with Belle and Marlene, and next week we'll refine and finalise the finding aid format and contents.

  Megan also analysed the Lu Rees data to be loaded into AUSTLIT as Gateway material - reviews, articles by authors, articles related to publication, wards, autobiographical notes, bibliographies, biographical notes, obituaries, short stories and poetry. Many of these categories contain just a handful of records, but there are 3,538 reviews (of which Megan estimates we already have just one third), over 1800 articles and 721 awards.

  Identifying new material and loading it will not be trivial, especially identifying authors of reviews and source details, but as the material is largely new and valuable, it is now a high priority for next week.

• Coded the Guided Search, except for the subject/setting search option which will be hard to test until the new thesaurus is mapped.

• Lots of one-off reports to help the clean-up.

Next Week

• More thesaurus conversion/mapping and user interface.

• Result formatting from simple and guided searches.

• Finalise Lu Rees finding aids and load Lu Rees gateway material.

• First known dates (expression level).

• Advanced search screen design.

• William noticed that some of the place-of-publication data for loaded records is wrong where the name of the place of publication (town or city) occurs in more than one state (eg Richmond, Glebe). I'll investigate when we map the spatial thesaurus. Dan, Chris and Terry have also noticed similar incidents, so I think a very careful look at all place assignments to places occuring in multiple states/countries is warranted.