The front matter for EAD guides has not posed any problem for me as we create MARC records for all our collections. I then use Terry Reese’s MarcEdit, with the style sheet modified for local practice. MarcEdit is freeware and you can download it from:
http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php
The container lists were another problem. We have many that are over 100 pages and I did not want to have to tag them all by hand. What I did instead was create a Microsoft Excel to EAD conversion tool, which I named Ead McTaggart. Rather than explain it here I will refer you to my article “Ead McTaggart: Using VBA to Automate EAD Container List Tagging” in issue 8 of Code4Lib Journal:
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/2025
The article includes a link to the complete VBA code for the tool.
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