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Encoded Archival Context – Challenges, Possibilities, and Future
(EAC-CPF)
August 13, 2014
Iris Lee AMNH [email protected]
Nick KrabbenhoeftAMNH Library, Coded Culture
CLIR HIDDEN COLLECTIONS PROJECTDescribing AMNH’s Collections
Expeditionary Field Work at the American Museum of Natural History2013-2016
• 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.”
CHALLENGE #1Describing AMNH’s Collections
CHALLENGE #1Connecting 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.”
Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Persons, Families (EAC-CPF)
•Reconnect collections
• Increase resource discovery
•Reuse biogHist notes across finding aids
•Reduce redundant work
POSSIBILITY #1EAC-CPF
SOLUTION #1EAC-CPF
EAC
AnthroEAD
PaleoEAD
VZEAD
Physical Sciences
EAD
LibraryEAD
VZEAD
EAC
SOLUTION #1EAC-CPF linked to Finding Aid
Photo credit: Shackelford, James B., “Roy Chapman Andrews looking through binoculars, Mongolia, 1928.”
EAC
VZEAD
EAC
SOLUTION #1Leads to Resource Discovery
Photo credit: Shackelford, James B., “Roy Chapman Andrews looking through binoculars, Mongolia, 1928.”
EAC
AnthroEAD
PaleoEAD
Physical Sciences
EAD
LibraryEAD
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
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.”
SOLUTION #1EAC-CPF Documentation… early 2012
EAC-CPF and Linked Data Resources
2010 Draft EAC-CPF Tag Libraryhttp://www3.iath.virginia.edu/eac/cpf/tagLibrary/cpfTagLibrary.html
Getty Linked Open Data Projecthttp://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/lod/
LC Linked Data Servicehttp://id.loc.gov/
EAC-CPF Project Documentation
Harvard-Yale Connect the Dotshttps://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab/proj/connecting-dots-using-eac-cpf-reunite-samuel-johnson-and-his-circle
Tufts EAC-CPF Best Practicehttp://sites.tufts.edu/dca/files/2011/03/DAT-040DCABestPracticesforEAC.pdf
University of Virginia SNAChttp://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/
CHALLENGE #2Incorporating Linked Data
SOLUTION #2Adding Links
@xlink:href
URIs recorded throughout the schema
SOLUTION #2Defining Controlled Vocabularies
@xlink:href
URIs recorded throughout the schema
<relationEntry @xlink:arcrole>
Such as “employedBy”, “participantIn”, “spouseOf”, “colleagueOf”http://vocab.org/relationship/
SOLUTION #2Using 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 Nameshttp://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/[ID]
CHALLENGE #3Creating XML
CHALLENGE #3Lots 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 Nameshttp://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/[ID]
CHALLENGE #3Creating XML
•Challenge 3
•Challenge 3
CHALLENGE #3Who Handcodes XML?
•xEAC–http://eaditor.blogspot.com/
•oXygen
•Microsoft Excel
•Microsoft Access
•Microsoft InfoPath
•FilemakerPro
POSSIBILITY #3XML Editors
SOLUTION #3Excel Workform
• Solution 3
•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 #3Excel Macro
SOLUTION #3 Excel Macro Example
SOLUTION #3 Excel Macro Example
• Solution 3
SOLUTION #3 Excel Macro Example
• Solution 3
SOLUTION #3 Excel Macro Example
• Solution 3
SOLUTION #3 Excel Macro Example
• Solution 3
CHALLENGE #4Entity Management
CHALLENGE #4Entity Management
EAC_0012
EAC_0001
EAC_2381
EAC_0561
EAC_0288
EAC_0103
CHALLENGE #4Entity Management
EAC_3894
EAC_0012
EAC_0001
EAC_2381
EAC_0561
EAC_0288
EAC_0103
POSSIBILITY #4Manage with databases
Database
AMNH Library EAD
EAC_3894EAC_
0012
EAC_0001
EAC_2381
EAC_0561
EAC_0288
EAC_0103
FUTURE xEAC
http://numismatics.org/authority/noe
FUTURE xEAC
FUTURE xEAC Editing Interface
FUTUREConnecting EAC to the library
Finding Aids(AT)
Images (Omeka)
Published material(OPAC)
Entities(xEAC?)
Digitized Material
(DSpace)
FUTUREConnecting EAC to the World
• Future
AMNH Library Repositories Public Access Points
AMNH Department Repositories
Authority Cooperativesamnh.org
EAD Image
MARC
EAC
Data
VZ AnthroEPS
Questions, Comments, Suggestions?
Thank youhttp://images.library.amnh.org/hiddencollections/