CIDC has been a participant in the Making of America II (MOA2) project. MOA2, with funding from the Digital Library Federation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, is attempting to develop standards for the encoding of intellectual, structural, and administrative data about primary resources housed in research libraries. Centered at the University of California at Berkeley, other participants include Stanford University, Pennsylvania State University, and the New York Public Library. CIDC has converted several thousand pages of documents and photographs relating to railroad transportation in the nineteenth-century America for use in the project. Staff is currently working to describe the digital files as MOA2 objects so that they can be shared as part of the joint database as well as locally. The material will be sent to Berkeley to build a common interface among the different collections. CIDC also organized a session on this important project at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in 1999.