1. New England Archivists Spring 2013 MeetingFriday, March 22, 2013

2. Background on Samuel Johnson and his circle 3. Background on Archival Standards and EAC-CPF 4. ISAD (G)ISAAR (CPF)ISDFISDIAHEADEACCPF[EAC-F][EAG] 5. EADMARCMODSEAC-CPFMARC AuthoritiesMADS 6. 7. Purpose: Establishname authority for the CPF entity being described. Oneor more or 8. Purpose: Providestructured or narrative description of the CPF entity being described. 9. Structuredfields 10. Narrativefields 11. Purpose: Establishrelationships between the CPF entity being described and other CPF entities, resources, or functions 12. SocialNetworks 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 13. HarvardLibrary Lab Innovation and research Financial support Technical support Beinecke-Houghtoncollaboration Why we picked Johnson 14. LearnFindabout EAC-CPFout what a rich EAC-CPF record might be Explore sharing pieces of archival description 15. Allhands best practices meeting with Kathy Wisser (TS-EAC chair, Simmons faculty) Threeadditional meetings for project planning and review Hiredtwo 3-month, full-time interns Brooke McManus (Houghton) Mary Yearl (Beinecke) 16. 78researched and hand-coded EAC-CPF records Bestpractices documentation Encoding best practices expressed as aSchematron schema 17. 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 18. 78researched and hand-coded EAC-CPF records Bestpractices documentation Encoding best practices expressed as aSchematron schema Descriptive best practices documented in a (now public) wiki LocalSNAC software installation 19. Hardto 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 20. Needfor 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 21. Kingsare both persons and corporate bodies A cat is a person 22. Howwill EAD and EAC-CPF interact? How will EAC-CPF be maintained and shared? What will happen at the national level? National Archival Authorities Cooperative 23. Local Yale: Plans to implement EAC-CPF as part of findingaid 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 24. Susan Pyzynski pyzynski@fas.harvard.edu Melanie Wisner mmwisner@fas.harvard.edu Ellen Doon ellen.doon@yale.eduMike Rush michael.rush@yale.edu / @mike_rush