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Hello Patrick, We have one small collection described in EAD but other than stating matrix numbers and trying to note how the item was released, it's pretty straightforward. If I had the time I would probably make MARC records, too. http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu0064.xml If I had been able to make MARC records I would have done that first then exported all the records in XML and used a stylesheet to convert to EAD. In this case I probably made a database in Access and exported as XML and converted using a stylesheet. It's a challenge finding best practices or even most common practices for anything like this, isn't it? -- John Bewley, Ph.D. Associate Librarian/Archivist Music Library University at Buffalo 716 645 0614 -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Patrick J Midtlyng Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 12:14 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ARSCLIST] Best Practice for describing Test Pressings and Radio Transcriptions Hi all, Apologies for redundancies, I just wanted to get the most eyes on this question. I've been looking at various archives and libraries to get a sense to how people are describing test pressings (and radio broadcast transcriptions). We currently have some in our Finding Aids, but as we look to start describing some other collections I wanted to poll the crowd. How do you describe these things: MARC and AARC2/RDA or EAD in finding aids? How was this decision made and what went into your choice to use one method over the other? Patrick Patrick J Midtlyng Sound Archivist, Belfer Audio Archive Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries phone: 315-443-2070 email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> web: http://library.syr.edu/belfer/