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Another reason to use <scopecontent>: When we get to the era when we can do tag-based searching, a search on <scopecontent> would collect these summaries as well as the more general ones. If the summaries are indeed mini-scope-and-content notes, that seems an advantage. If you have transcriptions and other non-scope-and-content data, another tag seems a better choice. My point is this: in the perfect world, the tagging reflects the role/meaning of the information it surrounds, not the position the information occupies in the document. Elizabeth H. Dow Mark, I avoid using <note> because it is so vague and there is almost always something more specific. I've used <odd> before, primarily for strange appendices, but I've never used it at the <c##> level. Nothing wrong in terms of the EAD structure, but again, I think in most cases there is a more specific tag available. Have you considered using <scopecontent>? If you were to catalog the items you are describing in your <dsc>, you'd put the summary description of them in a 520 field, which is the MARC analog of <scopecontent>. I see no reason why <scmpecontent> isn't an appropriate place for transcriptions, and there's no clear home for them in EAD. If you wanted to systematically treat transcriptions in a particular way - say with certain margins and/or font - you might want to encode them with <odd type="transcription"> so that your stylesheet could treat them appropriately, but by looking at your file it doesn't seem like this would be necessary. Best of luck, Mike Rush At 12:01 PM 1/3/2006, you wrote: Hi everyone and happy new year. We have a finding aid with item-level description with a summary description/transcription underneath (see link below). Initially we put the information in a note element, but have also considered putting in the other descriptive data element. Are there any advantages or disadvantages to either element? Any suggestions welcome and thanks, Mark ____________________________________ Michael Rush | [log in to unmask] Processing Archivist / EAD Coordinator Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 Tel: (203) 432-8123 Fax: (203) 432-4047