The document discusses the implementation of XForms in the context of interlinked prosopographies, focusing on how it can manage complex relationships between historical figures using EAC-CPF records. It highlights challenges in maintaining these relationships, advocates for further context through faceted searches, and outlines future development steps including scalability testing and enhanced public interfaces. The repository and demo links provided aim to facilitate access to the project and its documentation.

1. Building Interlinked Prosopographies:
A New Approach
Ethan Gruber
Web Services Developer
American Numismatic Society
gruber@numismatics.org
@ewg118

2. What is XForms?
W3C standard web form specification
 MVC architecture

XPath validation
 Manipulate complex XML models
 Interacts with REST services (APIs)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XForms

3. xEAC: XForms applied to EAC-CPF
User
(interface)
KML/
Linked Data
Web Services
VIAF
HTML:
XSLT+JS+CSS
DBPedia
Solr
XForms processor
(Orbeon)
XForms
instructions
eXist
Save
(REST)
Geonames
Pleiades
Web Form
Author/editor

4. The Challenge: Maintaining Relationships

5. I: Basic Authorship and Linking

8. Add/delete
Bound to
conventionDeclaration

9. This is a hack! This isn't what conventionDeclaration means,
but EAC lacks the appropriate declaration

12. Create Stub
Create relationship to
existing EAC-CPF record

14. alexander_the_great
my:childOf philip_ii_of_macedon
philip_ii_of_macedon
my:parentOf alexander_the_great

15. II: Adding Further Context

20. Faceted search

21. otherRecordId: http://nomisma.org/id/augustus
SPARQL: RDF query for related objects

22. Mausoleum of Augustus
http://www.smb.museum/ikmk/object.php?id=18207648
http://example.org/id/augustus
Res Gestae Divi Augusti

23. Next Steps

Finish form: Represent all EAC-CPF elements and attributes

Test for scalability

Interface with more APIs

Improve public interface, especially searching and browsing

Incorporate social network graph visualization

Follow evolving best practices in RDF/linked open data

Employ SPARQL endpoint for more sophisticated query?

24. More Information
Repository: https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC
Demo: http://admin.numismatics.org/xeac/
Documentation: http://wiki.numismatics.org/xeac:xeac
Blog: http://eaditor.blogspot.com