About this Project

Arizona Archives Online was created as a joint project between Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Arizona. The initial goal is to make finding aids for archival collections at each university accessible and searchable through a single web site. Finding aids from other archival repositories in Arizona will be added in the future, so that eventually researchers can view and search finding aids for nearly all of the archival collections located in Arizona. Over time, digital images of selected collections will also be made available through Arizona Archives Online.

All of the guides in Arizona Archives Online are encoded with EAD (Encoded Archival Description). EAD is a DTD (Document Type Definition) within XML (Extensible Markup Language). The XML encoded text documents are converted on-the-fly to HTML documents using XSL/XSLT stylesheets created by Stephen Miller. The search engine for this project is a Java application built with Xerces/Xalan/Xpath tools by Darius Robinson. Web pages were designed and created by Heather Knowles. The Apache/Tomcat and Microsoft SQL 2000 servers were built and are maintained by Stephen Tanner and Mike Sawitzke.

Funding for construction of Arizona Archives Online was provided by the Arizona State University Libraries, Cline Library of Northern Arizona University, and the University of Arizona Library.