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This summer, I worked on a couple of projects for DAIAD—the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department (Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame). One of DAIAD’s ongoing projects is the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (more informally, the “Catholic Portal”)—a VuFind index on a Solr server that stores rare or unique resources from a number of institutions that in some way pertain to the academic field of Catholic studies (especially American Catholic Studies). VuFind currently only works with MARC records, though it has the capacity to be upgraded to work with other kinds of records. My task for the CRRA was to code a program in Java to convert EAD files to the VuFind schema; after conversion, I had to send them to a Solr server that uses the VuFind schema, as a trial run before sending them to the CRRA server.
As my tools, I used Eclipse on Windows XP. Because the Solr/VuFind installation I wanted to use was on a server and not my hard drive, and because it only accept
