436 American Archivist / Vol. 60 / Fall 1997 Multi-institutional EAD: The University of Virginia's Role in the American Heritage Project DAVID SEAMAN Abstract: In 1996 the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a joint grant to the University of California at Berkeley, Duke University, Stanford University, and the University of Virginia to produce a body of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids and to test the assumption that a collection of such guides could function both as a local resource and as a multi-institutional union database. This paper concentrates on the issues of workflow and on-line delivery for the University of Virginia guides, which em- ploy Web forms for data creation, on-line searching, and "on the fly" conversion to HTML. About the author: David Seaman is the founding director of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. This library service, open since August 1992, combines an on-line archives of thousands of SGML texts and digital images with a center housing equipment suitable for the creation and analysis of text. Seaman has taught e-text and Internet courses at the annual summer Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and has a particular interest in the application of computer technologies to special collections and museums. An earlier version of this paper was presented on 29 August 1997 at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists held in Chicago.