We normalize <unitdate> anywhere we use it. If there are more than a few in a given file we use the script on the EAD help pages to do it. Michele (be green - don't print this email!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michele Combs Manuscripts Librarian Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave. Syracuse, NY 13244 315-443-2081 [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nathan Tallman Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 9:29 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Date normalization 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