Agreed. The easiest way, IMHO of working with EAD for several years at the Archives Hub (http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk), would be to set up a set of EAD templates and then cut and paste the text into them from Word.
Rob On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote: > On Oct 7, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Nathan Tallman wrote: > > > Chances are you would have to reformat all your finding aids to > > the new format, which may be as time consuming as hand coding.... > > > > ...If faced with these two options, I would opt for hand coding. You > will > > learn so much more about EAD and it's potential. If you totally rely on > the > > macro converter, your limited to what the macros are built to do. > > I concur. > > -- > Eric Morgan > University of Notre Dame >