Part of a co-presentation given at the Society of Florida Archivists 2014 Annual Meeting titled "Exploring EAC-CPF with the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP)." This section introduces EAC-CPF as a format for encoding creator records.

1. 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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. <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

6. 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

7. Some User Interface Implementations of EAC-CPF
Mapping the Republic of Letters
http://republicofletters.stanford.edu
Connecting the Dots: Using EAC-CPF to Reunite Samuel Johnson and His Circle
https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab/proj/connecting-dots-using-eac-cpf-reunite-samuel-
johnson-and-his-circle
xEAC user interface demo
http://admin.numismatics.org/xeac/
Book Artists Unbound
http://eac.allisonjai.com
Social Networks and Archival Context Project
http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/
Small World Project
http://gslis.simmons.edu/smallworld/

8. Screenshots from the
Book Artists Unbound project
http://eac.allisonjai.com

9. Thank
Allison Jai O’Dell
a.odell@miami.edu
@AllisonJaiODell
Mairelys Lemus-Rojas
m.lemusrojas@miami.edu
@mlemusrojas
you!