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Hello, Elizabeth, A regional database that takes advantage of EAD tags in searching and browsing is the Northwest Digital Archives: http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/nwda%2Dsearch/ In addition to the browsing options, click on Advanced Search. The Library of Congress browse options depend on tags: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/faid/ And the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division provides quite a few options for searching and browsing based on tagged information: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/findaids/ Thanks. Marsha Maguire Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Library of Congress Packard Campus 19053 Mount Pony Rd. Culpeper, VA 22701- 202-707-8465 [log in to unmask] My opinions are my own and not necessarily those of the Library of Congress. >>> Elizabeth H Dow <[log in to unmask]> 4/26/2008 10:59:53 AM >>> When I teach EAD, I stress the value of tagging as a way to add intelligence to the text. Yesterday I got this question from a student: "We're doing all this encoding in part so that search engines can search these documents better and understand when Washington is a city or a person's name. What kinds of search engines are we talking about? Not Yahoo or Google. Can you give us a demo of one of these search engines?" I know that the Women Travel Writers Project set up tag-based searches in DynaWeb, but they've gone away. Does anyone know of others? Elizabeth H. Dow Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Louisiana State University