Encoded Archival Context - Challenges, Possibilities, and Future (EAC-CPF)
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EAC-CPF (Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families) is an established archival standard with emerging practices. The American Museum of Natural History is creating EAC-CPF records as part of a Hidden Collections grant describing expeditionary collections and their creators. In this lightening talk hosted by the MDOR Roundtable at the 2014 annual SAA conference, Iris Lee and Nick Krabbenhoeft discussed the evolution of using custom Excel sheets to xEAC, a generalized xForms-based service. We also presented challenges we faced in understanding and adopting the standard.
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Encoded Archival Context - Challenges, Possibilities, and Future (EAC-CPF)
- 1. Encoded Archival Context – Challenges, Possibilities, and Future (EAC-CPF) August 13, 2014 Iris Lee AMNH Library ilee@amnh.org Nick Krabbenhoeft AMNH Library, Coded Culture n@nkrabben.com
- 2. CLIR HIDDEN COLLECTIONS PROJECT Describing AMNH’s Collections Expeditionary Field Work at the American Museum of Natural History 2013-2016 • Finding aids for archival collections • Entity records for expeditions and personnel Shackelford, James B., “At nest of the even dozen dinosaur eggs, with George Olsen, who found them, at left, and Roy Chapman Andrews at right, Mongolia, 1925.”
- 3. CHALLENGE #1 Describing AMNH’s Collections
- 4. CHALLENGE #1 Connecting Collections Throughout Divisions What did they bring back? • Specimens and artifacts • Notes and sketches • Diaries • Journals • Specimen books • Photographs • Recorded sound • Moving images Archival records for Central Asiatic Expeditions were found in almost all of the divisions of Science • Anthropology • Paleontology • Vertebrate Zoology • Physical Science • Research Library Shackelford, James B., “Roy Chapman Andrews watching William P. T. Hill map Urtyn Obo badlands, Mongolia, 1928.”
- 5. Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Persons, Families (EAC-CPF) •Reconnect collections •Increase resource discovery •Reuse biogHist notes across finding aids •Reduce redundant work POSSIBILITY #1 EAC-CPF
- 7. VZ EAD EAC SOLUTION #1 EAC-CPF linked to Finding Aid Photo credit: Shackelford, James B., “Roy Chapman Andrews looking through binoculars, Mongolia, 1928.” EAC
- 8. VZ EAD EAC SOLUTION #1 Leads to Resource Discovery Photo credit: Shackelford, James B., “Roy Chapman Andrews looking through binoculars, Mongolia, 1928.” EAC Anthro EAD Paleo EAD Physical Sciences EAD Library EAD
- 9. SOLUTION #1 <relations> Leads to Resource Discovery CREATOR: Shackleford, James B. DATE: 1925 <cpfRelation> Central Asiatic Exp. <dates> 1922, 1925, 1928 Shackleford Photo Collection EAD Shackleford EAC
- 10. SOLUTION #1 …and Provides Context Shackelford, James B., “Roy Chapman Andrews telling Merin, camel leader, how to get caravan down to camp at Shabarahk Usu from top of Flaming Cliffs, Mongolia, 1925.”
- 11. SOLUTION #1 EAC-CPF Documentation… early 2012 EAC-CPF and Linked Data Resources 2010 Draft EAC-CPF Tag Library http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/eac/cpf/tagLibrary/cpfTagLibrary.html Getty Linked Open Data Project http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/lod/ LC Linked Data Service http://id.loc.gov/ EAC-CPF Project Documentation Harvard-Yale Connect the Dots https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab/proj/connecting-dots-using-eac-cpf-reunite-samuel-johnson- and-his-circle Tufts EAC-CPF Best Practice http://sites.tufts.edu/dca/files/2011/03/DAT-040DCABestPracticesforEAC.pdf University of Virginia SNAC http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/
- 12. CHALLENGE #2 Incorporating Linked Data
- 13. SOLUTION #2 Adding Links @xlink:href URIs recorded throughout the schema
- 14. SOLUTION #2 Defining Controlled Vocabularies @xlink:href URIs recorded throughout the schema <relationEntry @xlink:arcrole> Such as “employedBy”, “participantIn”, “spouseOf”, “colleagueOf” http://vocab.org/relationship/
- 15. SOLUTION #2 Using Controlled Headings @xlink:href URIs recorded throughout the schema <relationEntry @xlink:arcrole> Such as “employedBy”, “participantIn”, “spouseOf”, “colleagueOf” http://vocab.org/relationship/ <placeEntry @vocabularySource> Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/[ID]
- 17. CHALLENGE #3 Lots of Data @xlink:href URIs recorded throughout the schema <relationEntry @xlink:arcrole> Such as “employedBy”, “participantIn”, “spouseOf”, “colleagueOf” http://vocab.org/relationship/ <placeEntry @vocabularySource> Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/[ID]
- 19. •Challenge 3 CHALLENGE #3 Who Handcodes XML?
- 20. •xEAC –http://eaditor.blogspot.com/ •oXygen •Microsoft Excel •Microsoft Access •Microsoft InfoPath •FilemakerPro POSSIBILITY #3 XML Editors
- 21. SOLUTION #3 Excel Workform • Solution 3
- 22. •Function finds root node in workform. •Assigns data in table below root node to child nodes named by column headings. •Additional functions format –paragraphs –dates –xml attributes SOLUTION #3 Excel Macro
- 23. SOLUTION #3 Excel Macro Example
- 24. SOLUTION #3 Excel Macro Example • Solution 3
- 25. SOLUTION #3 Excel Macro Example • Solution 3
- 26. SOLUTION #3 Excel Macro Example • Solution 3
- 27. SOLUTION #3 Excel Macro Example • Solution 3
- 31. POSSIBILITY #4 Manage with databases Database AMNH Library EAD EAC_ 3894EAC_ 0012 EAC_ 0001 EAC_ 2381 EAC_ 0561 EAC_ 0288 EAC_ 0103
- 33. FUTURE xEAC
- 35. FUTURE Connecting EAC to the library Finding Aids (AT) Images (Omeka) Published material (OPAC) Entities (xEAC?) Digitized Material (DSpace)
- 36. FUTURE Connecting EAC to the World • Future AMNH Library Repositories Public Access Points AMNH Department Repositories Authority Cooperativesamnh.org EAD Image MARC EAC Data VZ AnthroEPS