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.

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From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martha J. Riley
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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
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