15. Purpose: Establish
relationships between
the CPF entity being described and other
CPF entities, resources, or functions
<cpfRelation>
<resourceRelation>
<functionRelation>
16.
17.
18. Social
Networks and Archival Context
(SNAC)
Princeton University Library Finding Aids
Duke University, Doris Duke Profile
Tufts University Digital Collections and
Archives, TAPER
Brown University, The Gordon Hall and
Grace Hoag Collection of Dissenting and
Extremist Printed Propaganda
19.
20. Harvard
Library Lab
• Innovation and research
• Financial support
• Technical support
Beinecke-Houghton
collaboration
Why we picked Johnson
23. All
hands best practices meeting with
Kathy Wisser (TS-EAC chair, Simmons
faculty)
Three
additional meetings for project
planning and review
Hired
two 3-month, full-time interns
• Brooke McManus (Houghton)
• Mary Yearl (Beinecke)
24. 78
researched and hand-coded EAC-CPF
records
Best
practices documentation
• Encoding best practices expressed as a
Schematron schema
25. SIDEBAR
XML Schema ... expresses constraints on the
structure and content of valid EAC-CPF documents
(above and beyond the basic constraints imposed
by XML itself)
XML Schematron schema ... expresses additional
constraints beyond those of the schema, allowing
for “local practice” validation rules
26. 78
researched and hand-coded EAC-CPF
records
Best
practices documentation
• Encoding best practices expressed as a
Schematron schema
• Descriptive best practices documented in a (now
public) wiki
Local
SNAC software installation
27.
28.
29. Hard
to manage this relational work in a
document-based environment
Hard to know when and where to stop
Handcrafting: worth the time and effort?
The promise of Linked Open Data
Need for shared vocabulary to express
relationships
30. Need
for tools
Collaboration was easier than expected
(except for distance and communication)
Lack of tradition in this descriptive
practice made it easier
Compatible institutions, collections, and
goals made it easy
31. Kings
are both persons and corporate
bodies
A cat is a person
32.
33.
34. How
will EAD and EAC-CPF interact?
How will EAC-CPF be maintained and
shared?
What will happen at the national level?
• National Archival Authorities Cooperative
35.
36. Local
• Yale: Plans to implement EAC-CPF as part of finding
aid database redesign
• Harvard: Discussing potential implementation
Shared
• Develop RDF vocabulary for relations
• Exploring and supporting tool development
ArchivesSpace , xEAC
International
• Conceptual model for archival description
• EAC-Functions
• Encoded Archival Guide