Deadline for Final Draft EAC Schema Comments Extended to 15 November;
EAC-CPF Webinar Recordings Available
EAC-CPF (Encoded Archival Context-Corporate Bodies, Persons and
Families, EAC for short) is a communications structure (XML schema) for
archival contextual information. EAC records are akin to traditional
MARC authority records, while also enabling inclusion of much greater
contextual information, such as biographical information about people
and administrative histories of governmental and private organizations.
EAC records would complement and be linked to EAD (Encoded Archival
Description) descriptions of particular archival collections. Imagine
EAC records as a new data source about entities that produce archival
and manuscripts materials. In addition, they can provide meaningful
links to related access points in many domains. EAC's capabilities
enable important steps toward an archival component of the Semantic Web.
Learn more <http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/> about EAC, the EAC
schema and the tag library. If you haven't already done so, please
review the final draft EAC schema
<http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/eac-cpf-schema.html> and provide
comments by 15 November 2009.
To provide additional information on EAC-CPF, OCLC Research, the RLG
Partnership and the EAC Working Group recently held two EAC-CPF webinars
in which archivists, authorities librarians, system developers and
linked-data geeks discussed the draft EAC-CPF standard. In these
webinars, Katherine Wisser, chair of the international EAC Working
Group, introduced the EAC-CPF standard and then took questions from
participants. Basil Dewhurst, Manager of Resource Discovery Services at
the National Library of Australia and member of the EAC Working Group,
also participated in the discussion during the 3 November webinar.
Daniel Pitti, chief architect of the EAC schema, participated in the
discussion of the 8 October webinar.
(The Q&A in these seminars was very good.)
Links to the streaming EAC-CPF webinar recordings are available here:
* 3 November webinar
<https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=36175052&rKey=e8212
79d60a30404> with Katherine Wisser and Basil Dewhurst
* 8 October webinar
<https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=35664247&rKey=0b370
096263c8c75> with Katherine Wisser and Daniel Pitti
Please note these are only temporary links. We will notify you when the
persistent recordings are available on our Web site.
Contact Jennifer Schaffner <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with
questions or comments.
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Jennifer Schaffner
Program Officer
OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership
650.287.2140
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