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<div>Hi Margaret,</div>
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<div>We have been working at UVa on this very issue. We’ve developed software (dubbed “Transmog”) and were able to hire a fantastic intern this summer to test it for us. To our delight, our intern was able to convert approximately 50 MS Word finding aids
for us this summer into EAD XML for upload to ArchivesSpace. We hope to be able to make the tool more widely available this fall. If you or anyone else on the list is interested in working with Transmog, please contact me directly and I’ll be in touch in
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<div>Ivey</div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Ivey Glendon</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">University of Virginia Library</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><a href="mailto:glendon@virginia.edu">glendon@virginia.edu</a> | (434) 243-0634</font></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org">archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>> on behalf of "Hughes, Margaret (Library)" <<a href="mailto:Margaret.Hughes@ucsf.edu">Margaret.Hughes@ucsf.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Archivesspace Users Group <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org">archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 2:19 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org">archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org">archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Legacy MS Word finding aids<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Good morning illustrious ASpacers,
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<div>I'm wondering if anyone is willing to share their thoughts or experiences regarding strategies to get MS Word (or other word processing applications) legacy finding aids into ASpace. </div>
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<div>Some of the specifics: We have approximately 400 of the legacy finding aids. They are not in EAD or online. They don't follow a standard template-- location of fields and data included vary widely. </div>
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<div>For those reasons, I'm skeptical that an automated process for getting the Word into EAD would be feasible for us and leaning towards hand entering the finding aids.</div>
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<div>Again, if anyone is willing to share their own experience tackling this issue, successes or failures, I would really appreciate it!</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Margaret</div>
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