Monica, Will the links to the digital surrogates go directly to the digital objects on your server, or to the digital objects in a database (if they're stored in a database now)? Burt Altman At 10:02 AM 6/12/2009, you wrote: >Megan and Barbara, > >Minnesota Historical Society has a few EAD examples for AV material >-- although none of the film, video or sound recordings are yet >available as linked digital surrogates. We just started making >finding aids to the sound and visual collections this past year but >have completed about 28 so far. > >http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/sv000017.xml: the same sound >recordings in master, digital submaster, and digital user formats. > >http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/sv000010.xml: primarily a >collection of video recordings, but includes some photographs with a >finding aid link into our visual resources database. > >You can view the EAD encoding through your browser source view. > >We'd be happy to hear any comments, suggestions you have about our >encoding or description. > >Monica Manny Ralston >Archival Processing Manager >Minnesota Historical Society >Voice: 651-259-3360 >www.mnhs.org/library/findaids Burt Altman, C.A. Librarian/Archivist, Special Collections Florida State University Libraries 116 Honors Way Tallahassee, FL 32306-2047 850-645-7962 850-644-1221 fax [log in to unmask] http://www.fsu.edu/~speccoll/