http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/ University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library Date unknown

At Penn we have no mechanism to work with sgml, so we send sgml-encoded registers to RLG; RLG then sends us back html files, which I mount on the department's web pages.

We are in the very beginning stages of doing anything with EAD. So far, we have sent IN HARD COPY all of our registers (save one) to Pacific Data for conversion to SGML. We did one register from an existing WordPerfect file in house. Both processes have been time consuming: the former because of corrections and review, the latter just because it was horrible to cut and paste and do a first one. Nothing we do here has an automated quality to it.

Nancy M. Shawcross Curator of Manuscripts Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 215-898-2065 215-573-9079 (fax) shawcros@pobox.upenn.edu Yes