XSLT

Call it The GCDLADB if you like.

9 min read Nov 17, 2021 | Updated: Dec 9, 2021 13:20
Digital.Grinnell relies on two different metadata XSL “transforms” to convert a cataloger’s MODS descriptive data into a modified MODS record and a corresponding Dublin Core record. Self-Transforms The first transform type can be thought of as a “self-transform” because it accepts a MODS input and produces a modified MODS output; there is no change in schema, just changes in the data and its order. MODS-to-DC Transforms All other transforms relevant to this document are “MODS-to-DC” transforms. They accept a valid MODS record and output a corresponding, valid record under the DC schema. ...

Missing Oral History Transcripts in DG - Fixed

2 min read Jul 19, 2019
I recently constructed a new, local/development instance of ISLE (see my previous post) largely in order to debug a mystery in Digital.Grinnell’s display of oral histories. My Trello card for the issue reads: Our newest AOH entries, and some older objects, will not display a transcript after upgrade to the latest version of the OH module. OHScribe is needed to aid in re-processing transcripts for these objects, and some XDebug work will also be required. Engaging XDebug and PHPStorm allowed me to peek inside the relatively complex oral histories (OH) module where I found that some of our OH objects were missing key Solr field elements, like or_transcripts and or_speaker. ...