This depends upon how much text is in the information section. I'm not
convinced that <unittitle> is helpful at item level to enclose what
could be a lengthy description.
Other possibilities include:
<c?? level="item">
<did>
<container ....>Box 1, Folder 1</container>
<unitdate>2/16/1947</unitdate>
</did>
<scopecontent><p>John Smith to William Jones: Memorandum concerning
business</p></scopecontent></c??>
This would involve including an extra macro in your markup routine to
put a "to" between writer and recipient and a":" after recipient. You
could also include <persname> wrappers in the same macro if you really
wished to bloat the finding aid.
I wouldn't use this method myself, as I prefer to keep the item level
content description within the item level <did> [see mails to mailing
list over last four years, passim] but the only way this can be done is
to use <note> within the <did> (and similar macros).
<c?? level="item">
<did>
<container ....>Box 1, Folder 1</container>
<unitdate>2/16/1947</unitdate>
<note encodinganalog="MARC520"><p>John Smith to William Jones:
Memorandum concerning business</p></note></did></c??>
Sadly EAD was not designed primarily for item level description, and is
at its weakest here. Be glad your item description are short, and not
nested in the middle of each other ...
--
Richard Higgins
Durham University Library
Katherine Hayes wrote:
>
> Perhaps this is not so unusual, but I'm unsure of how to tag a container
> list describing correspondence at the item level in the following manner:
>
> Box 1, Folder 1
> [date] [writer] [recipient]
> [information]
> 2/16/1947 John Smith William Jones Memorandum
> concerning business
>
> This is the existing order of information in an old, large finding aid
> (approx. 600 typewritten pages!). Can it be done without rearranging the
> data? I don't really want to use the tabular tags.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions; I'm stumped.
>
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