Thank you very much. I'm afraid I do not know what a vessel is in this context. Could you define vessel or refer me to a dictionary with this term. 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] Beth Russell <beth.russell@MYS TICSEAPORT.ORG> To Sent by: Encoded [log in to unmask] Archival cc Description List <[log in to unmask]> Subject Re: encoding rates per hour or character 09/24/2004 12:17 PM Please respond to Encoded Archival Description List <[log in to unmask]> Martha, For a grant that I am now working on, it is estimated that an EAD document will take an average of about 2 days. Of course, that varies, depending on how many vessels are in each collection, because our detailed descriptions at the end of the EAD contains a list of every vessel design in the collection. For the collection I just finished that had 58 designs, it probably took me less than a day; however, I’m looking forward to a collection that has over 500 designs, which will probably take me longer. Hope this helps. Beth Russell Project Cataloger Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. 75 Greenmanville Ave. P. O. Box 6000 Mystic, CT 06355 tel: 860.572.5360 www.mysticseaport.org [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martha J. Riley Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 11:06 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: encoding rates per hour or character 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]