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Thank you everyone for your responses! Most who shared are normalizing dates (or wish they were). I'm going to look more closely into Jason Casden's PERL script, but I haven't worked much with PERL before. I installed ActivePerl, but can anyone advise me on installing the necessary XML::Twig and HTML::Entities modules? I found the website for XML::Twig, but don't know how to install it as a module. Thanks again; this is a great list! Nathan On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Nathan Tallman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Good morning, > > I'd like to take a quick and extremely informal survey. How many > institutions are normalizing dates at the file level? My past institution > only normalized dates at the top, series, and subseries levels. The > rational was that it's not worth the time to normalize at the file level > because there aren't enough publishing options available that utilize the > data. (Plus, there's a script to normalize dates if it's needed.) My > current institution is looking at best practices for our encoding and I'd be > interested to hear what others are doing . > > Thanks, > Nathan Tallman >