Michael Rush

One of my pet projects for the past few years has been the EAD Bibliography.  Intended as a comprehensive collection of articles, books, and reviews relating to Encoded Archival Description, it has lived on the EAD Help Pages for the past five years.  I started it when I was vice-chair/chair-elect of the EAD Roundtable and the Help Pages were undergoing a revision in early 2006. At first I collected the citations in a RefWorks account and hard coded the HTML for the bibliography.  Not satisfied with the inelegance of that solution and wanting to experiment with XSLT 2.0, I encoded the entire bibliography in EAD itself (how’s that for meta-metadata?) and wrote a style sheet to generate the five necessary HTML pages.  If you are morbidly curious, you can see the EAD and XSLT for yourself. This proved a fairly workable solution and remained stable for over four years as I updated the bibliography every Read more →