Michael,

You'll be meeting a group of us from the University of Washington at your
upcoming EAD workshop in Bellingham (we're really looking forward to this!),
and tomorrow, Dan Pitti is visiting to give a presentation and consult with
us on implementing EAD here at the U.  But when we saw your message about
testing the EAD Cookbook, we were intrigued.  UW might, as an institution
just beginning to work with EAD, be able to provide feedback you wouldn't
get from more experienced EAD users.  We do have at least some idea of what
EAD is about (Judy Tsou, who worked with Daniel at UC Berkeley, is here now,
and I've been following the development of EAD for some years), so we
probably would understand what the Cookbook aims to accomplish.

Then again, you might prefer more experienced users.  I thought I'd let you
know that we are interested, in any case.  We are not currently using an
SGML or XML editor.  Would you provide that for the test?  We use MS Word
for word processing, along with various HTML editors.  We have several
HTML-encoded finding aids available (not encoded acc. to EAD -- but  one of
these might constitute an interesting test case because we've digitized part
of the described collection -- and have prepared Dublin Core records for
each of those digitized images).  If we'd need to purchase Author/Editor or
Xmetal in order to participate in the Cookbook test, that would probably
rule us out, since it would take several weeks for a software purchase to go
through.

What do you think?  Thanks, and we'll see you in Bellingham.

Marsha Maguire
Manuscripts and Special Collections Cataloging Librarian
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, Washington  98195-2900
(206) 543-8407
(206) 685-8782 fax
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fox, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: EAD Cookbook available for testing (long message)


> Good to hear from you.  Here are the files.
>
>  <<EAD Cookbook.doc>>  <<ead.dtd>>  <<eadbase.ent>>
>
>  <<ead.css>>  <<ead.ctm>>  <<ead.mcr>>  <<ead.rlx>>  <<eadcorporate.xml>>
> <<eadperson.xml>>
>
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Fox
> Acting Assistant Director for Library and Archives
> Minnesota Historical Society
> 345 Kellogg Blvd West
> St. Paul MN 55102-1906
> phone: 651-296-1014
> fax:  651-296-9961
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>
> > ----------
> > From:         Carolyn Foster[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent:         Wednesday, April 19, 2000 3:37 PM
> > To:   [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:      Re: EAD Cookbook available for testing  (long message)
> >
> > Michael,
> > Yes, count me in as a tester.  I hereby promise to do my best to use and
> > test your template and get you a formatted finding aid by June 2.  I
will
> > comment as needed, but I anticipate mostly kudos.
> >
> > I'm using Word 95 and XMetal 1.2.
> >
> > Carolyn
> >
>