using eac-cpf

Presentation given as part of:

Exploring EAC-CPF with the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP)

8 May 2014

Society of Florida Archivists Annual Meeting

Allison Jai O’Dell (@AllisonJaiODell)

Mairelys Lemus-Rojas (@mlemusrojas)

University of Miami Libraries

Introduction to EAC-CPF(Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families)

Designed to encode information about:

People and organizations associated with archival collections

The social context and networks of those people and organizations

EAC-CPF homepage | Tag Library

An Encoding Schema

Record control <control>Description <cpfDescription> Name entity identification <identity> (normalization & collocation) Contextual information <description> Relationships <relations>

EAC-CPF homepage | Tag Library

The EAC-CPF Record

<localDescription localType="subject"><term>Knitting--Fair Isle (Scotland)</term></localDescription>

<localDescription localType="genre"><term>Herringbone stitch binding (Binding)</term></localDescription>

<localDescription localType="genre"><term>Cut-paper work</term></localDescription>

EAC-CPF is Extensible

Stating predicates and objects: build links with our name entity

<cpfRelation cpfRelationType="associative" xlink:href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96022495" xlink:role="http://rdvocab.info/uri/schema/FRBRentitiesRDA/Person" xlink:type="simple">

<relationEntry>Wheless, Joseph 1868-1950</relationEntry>

</cpfRelation>

XLink / Towards Linked Data

Some User Interface Implementations of EAC-CPF

Mapping the Republic of Lettershttp://republicofletters.stanford.edu

Connecting the Dots: Using EAC-CPF to Reunite Samuel Johnson and His Circlehttps://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab/proj/connecting-dots-using-eac-cpf-reunite-samuel-johnson-and-his-circle

xEAC user interface demohttp://admin.numismatics.org/xeac/

Book Artists Unboundhttp://eac.allisonjai.com

Social Networks and Archival Context Projecthttp://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/

Small World Projecthttp://gslis.simmons.edu/smallworld/

Screenshots from theBook Artists Unbound project

http://eac.allisonjai.com

Thank

Allison Jai O’Dell a.odell@miami.edu

@AllisonJaiODell

Mairelys Lemus-Rojas m.lemusrojas@miami.edu

@mlemusrojas

you!