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Dear All, I am hoping that the EAD community will be able to help with an Irish project. My name is Dolores Grant, and I am a digital archivist for the Irish Record Linkage project with the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI): http://dri.ie/irish-record-linkage-1864-1913 I am also a member of the DRI's Metadata taskforce. We are currently creating metadata guidelines for institutions that will be depositing collections into DRI. We are not creating a new metadata schema, but we do have a number of mandatory fields for deposit into our repository. The repository will support multiple metadata schemas and will map elements to allow cross searching. We recently wrote the first draft of our EAD user guidelines, "EAD and the Digital Repository of Ireland: A user guide", which is aimed at assisting institutions intending to ingest collections with EAD into DRI. We are looking for external EAD experts, who would be willing to review our guidelines, point out any errors or inconsistencies in them, and give us some general feedback about their clarity and usefulness. If anyone on this list is interested in volunteering to become one of our external EAD experts/reviewers, please contact me off list. Many thanks for your time! Dolores