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[Cross posted, apologies if you get it twice!] Archival colleagues; With some others here at the University of Michigan, I've been wallowing in Encoded Archival Description on a very part-time basis for the better part of the past year. In time for discussions on EAD at CAIE and perhaps in the halls of the Fairmount Hotel in Chicago next week AND in order to get feedback from other professionals on this approach to the delivery of encoded archival information, you are invited to take a look at and critique a Beta version of an interface to EAD-encoded finding aids (and one TEI-encoded letter). It resides at <http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~blandis/EAD/> and you don't need any software other than your trusty Web browser (ideally forms-capable, see below) to take it for a spin. There are more caveats than you can shake a stick at and a lot of supporting documentation sandwiched around the interface itself. The HTML tagging assumes you're using a frames-capable Web browser (it uses the "target" attribute on some <a></a> tags); if you aren't, you'll still be able to look at the Introduction and the Search Interface, but not the Suggested Searches or other supporting documentation (which just might be a blessing disguised in outdated technology ;-) If you get a flashing "danger will robinson" message trying to search a term in the "Controlled Access Terms" option, you're in Nigel-land, it's a known bug, and it'll hopefully not be a problem shortly! ** ______Bill Landis_|_JSTOR Production [log in to unmask] ** "I go out walking I will - Head out walking I will - |313 936.2363 ** Go out walking through the middle of midnight - |fax 647.6897 ** With a burning inside - And there's nothing they can throw - ** Nothing they can throw me that I can't throw back - ** Or at least know where to hide"___|_Connie Kaldor_|_I Go Out Walking