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Archives search engine



Greetings.
        My friend Raleigh Muns and I have created a search engine that
searches the four offices in our system. I could easily create one that
would search other archives. I would like to create a sample if I could get
10 or so repositories to create the following structure. Many of you may
already have this. What I need is a URL for the page with the collection
names (#1 below)

1. A page which has a list of all collections with links to the finding aid.
There should be no links to other parts of your page.
2. Your organizations name in the title field. This can be accomplished with
a universal search and replace feature.  Replace <title> with <title>
Organization name.
3. Each finding aid page should have a link to your main page

This search engine is operated on a Linux server out of my office. You can
view the search engine I have operating at http://www.umsl.edu/~whmc
<http://www.umsl.edu/~whmc>

I know there is work being done to standardize finding aids and web pages,
but this is a fast and actually quite efficient method. If I get enough
responses to create a sample I will post the URL for evaluation.

If you have any questions please contact me.

Zelli Fischetti
Associate Director
Western Historical Manuscript Collection
222 Thomas Jefferson Library
University of Missouri-St. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121

zelli@umsl.edu

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