This document discusses xEAC, which uses XForms to create and manage Encoded Archival Context-Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) records. XForms allows the creation of complex XML models and interacts with REST APIs. The xEAC form allows linking EAC-CPF records to controlled vocabularies and linking data repositories. It also converts EAC-CPF records to RDF triples and exposes them through a SPARQL endpoint to integrate records with other systems and link open data. Future steps include improving the form, testing scalability, and following best practices for linked open data.

1. xEAC: XForms for EAC-CPF
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)
XForms processor
(Orbeon)
XForms
instructions
Web Form
Author/editor
HTML:
XSLT+JS+CSS
Web Services
VIAF
DBPedia
Geonames
Pleiades
Getty
SPARQL
id.loc.gov
KML/
Linked Data
eXist
Solr
Save
(REST)
SPARQL
Endpoint

4. The Challenge: Maintaining Relationships

5. I: Basic Authorship and Linking

7. Linking to SNAC

8. Linking to VIAF

9. Add/delete
Bound to
conventionDeclaration

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

11. Linking to DBpedia

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

15. alexander_the_great
my:childOf philip_ii_of_macedon
philip_ii_of_macedon
my:parentOf alexander_the_great

16. II: Adding Further Context

18. Getty SPARQL lookups for AAT A ND TGN

22. Faceted search

23. III: Linked Open Data
(http://numismatics.org/authorities

24. RDF
Triplestore
EAC-CPF to RDF
http://numismatics.org/authority/newell
EAD
MODS
TEI
User
Interface
(xEAC)
SPARQL
dcterms:creator
<http://numismatics.org/authority/newell>
User
Interface
(EADitor)
REST (xsl:document())

25. <http://numismatics.org/authority/newell>
skos:prefLabel "Newell, Edward Theodore, 1886-1941";
bio:birth <http://numismatics.org/authority/newell#birth>;
bio:death <http://numismatics.org/authority/newell#death>;
owl:sameAs <http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6x63rt8>,
<http://viaf.org/viaf/28124686>,
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edward_Theodore_Newell>,
<http://www.idref.fr/074163108/id>,
<http://d-nb.info/gnd/159145430>;
xeac:correspondedWith <http://numismatics.org/authority/noe>,
<http://numismatics.org/authority/wood_howland>,
<http://numismatics.org/authority/endicott>,
<http://numismatics.org/authority/schulman>,
<http://numismatics.org/authority/zerbe>;
xeac:corresponedWith <http://numismatics.org/authority/ives>;
rel:colleagueOf <http://numismatics.org/authority/miles>;
dcterms:abstract "Edward Theodore Newell (1886–1941) was a U.S. numismatist. He
served as the president of the American Numismatic Society between 1916 and 1941.".
<http://numismatics.org/authority/newell#birth>
dcterms:date "1886"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#gYear>.
<http://numismatics.org/authority/newell#death>
dcterms:date "1886"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#gYear>.

26. http://numismatics.org/authority/newell
Archival resources delivered through SPARQL

27. http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/nnan0084
Biographical information extracted from EAC-CPF

28. Next Steps
 Finish form: Represent all EAC-CPF elements and attributes
 Test for scalability
 Improve documentation
 Improve public interface, especially searching and browsing
 Follow evolving best practices in RDF/linked open data (for
archival authorities, SNAP ontology, CIDOC-CRM)
 Incorporate social network graph visualization

29. 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
ANS Authorities: http://numismatics.org/authorities
ANS Archives: http://numismatics.org/archives