[XML4Lib] Printed catalogs

[Wick, Ryan]

If you're comfortable with XSLT, you might want to look at XSL:FO
(Formatting Objects). It's commonly used to create PDFs from XML
documents. It's an additional set of formatting rules, so you'd use XSLT
to create a FO document that has your data and the formatting rules, and
then send the FO document to another processor (see Apache FOP:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ ). Parts of FO are like CSS for
print. If you want to see more of the EAD PDF files, look at
http://eadpdfgen.library.oregonstate.edu/
 
I've not created anything from MARCXML, but have used it for EAD, XHTML,
and eventually will for TEI. We've also used Adobe InDesign importing
XML (modified from EAD) to produce an 1800 page, six volume catalogue:
http://paulingcatalogue.org/   
 
Ryan Wick 
Information Technology Consultant 
Special Collections 
Oregon State University Libraries 
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections 
 
 
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[mailto:xml4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jared Camins
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:04 PM
To: xml4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [XML4Lib] Printed catalogs


Dear XML4LIB,

I originally posted this message to CODE4LIB, so I apologize if anyone
already saw this message. After posting the message, I discovered the
existence of XML4LIB, and thought this might be a more appropriate
forum.

I am cataloging a special collection in MARC (to take advantage of LC
copy cataloging, primarily), but at the end of the project I will be
producing a printed catalog for the owner of the collection. My plan is
to use an XSLT stylesheet to produce the catalog from MARCXML. I already
threw together a stylesheet to produce a brief HTML bibliography of the
collection, so I am confident that this plan would work. We would
probably use LaTeX rather than HTML for output for the final catalog,
since that would make the final printing easier, not to mention
simplifying index generation.

My question is, has anyone done something like this? Any lessons learned
the hard way, stylesheets I could model ours on, or any other advice? I
know about the LC stylesheets, but that's about the only relevant
resource that I'm aware of so far.

Thanks in advance for all your help.

Regards,
Jared Camins-Esakov

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Jared Camins-Esakov
Freelance bibliographer and archivist
(cell) +1 (917) 880-7649
(e-mail)  jcamins at gmail.com
(web) http://www.jaredcamins.com/

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