Response to request for information from the Annerberg Rare Book & Manuscript LIbrary,
University of Pennsylvania

1. [don't really understand the question] at Penn we have no mechanism to work with
sgml, so we send sgml-encoded registers to RLG; RLG then sends us back html files,
which I mount on the department's web pages.

2. we are in the very beginning stages of doing anything with EAD. So far, we have
sent IN HARD COPY all of our registers (save one) to Pacific Data for conversion to
SGML. We did one register from an existing WordPerfect file in house. Both processes
have been time consuming: the former because of corrections and review, the latter
just because it was horrible to cut and paste and do a first one. [I don't know what
the word "instances" means in the following context: "How you mark up your
instances"]. Nothing jwe do here has an automated quality to it--we're stone age.

3. Nancy M. Shawcross
        Curator of Manuscripts
        Rare Book & Manuscript Library
        University of Pennsylvania
        3420 Walnut Street
        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206

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        215-898-2065
        215-573-9079 (fax)

4. Yes, we are participating.