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I guess it depends on how motivated you are. When I converted all of our finding aids to EAD four years ago, I averaged about 70 finding aids a day (I wanted it to be done and over with as quickly as possible). The number of pages per finding aid varied widely, from as small as 3 to as many as 200 if the container list was extra long. At the time, I outlined my process on our website at http://archives.utah.gov/referenc/ead.htm. Mostly I just used search and replace techniques. New finding aids don't go through this process, of course. Usually, staff members write up a draft in Word or something, open up an XML editor, and use an EAD template to copy/paste from the Word document to the .xml. Data entry for container lists are done in a table or spreadsheet, then we use Word's mail merge feature to wrap the XML around the fields, creating <c01><c02> etc., again using copy/paste to move the resulting tags to the .xml file that has all of our note fields. I'm not sure how long it takes them to create a new one, but the process is not difficult. Elizabeth Perkes Utah State Archives >>> [log in to unmask] 9/24/04 9:06:02 AM >>> I am new to encoding EAD. I need an estimate of how many pages/ or characters I can code in an hour. I need this for a project I will be doing. Hope someone on the list will be able to provide this information. Thank you. If you reply off list, I will summarize the responses for the list. Martha Riley Rare Book Cataloger / Archivist Washington University, Becker Medical Library Campus Box 8132 660 S. Euclid Avenue St. Louis, MO 63110 314-362-2788 [log in to unmask]