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I am new to EAD, trying to design a tagging scheme, and could use a little advice. My problem is this: when working down the hierarchy of levels, how does one best deal with boxes? From an strictly organizational point of view, the boxes signify nothing about the relationship of the folder or itme to other parts of the record series, and thus are not, strictly speaking, components of the more meaningful hierarchy usually represented on paper finding aids by indentations. Boxes are simply a storage medium. For instance, if a finding aid is divided into several categories (Correspondence, publications, photographs, etc), these categories are likely to overlap from one box to another. By the same token, boxes may contain 2, 3, or even four categories. In other words, neither the category or the box is necessarily subordinate to the other. So I am somewhat confused as to how one can keep track of box information, so that box the categories and the boxes will display properly, and allow for highlevel searching, _and the automatatic generation of paper-finding aids when we develop that functionality. I would like to make the best decision now, before I find out later that mistakes were made that impair our functionality. Any advice list members could give would be greatly appreciated. Chris Prom University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Visiting Assistant Archivist, University Archives 217-333-0798 (afternoons) [log in to unmask]