Exploring EAC-CPF with the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP) 8 May 2014 Society of Florida Archivists Annual Meeting Allison Jai O’Dell Mairelys Lemus-Rojas University of Miami Libraries

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

Designed to encode information about:  People and organizations associated with archival collections  The social context and networks of those people and organizations EAC-CPF homepageEAC-CPF homepage | Tag LibraryTag Library An Encoding Schema

Record control Description  Name entity identification (normalization & collocation)  Contextual information  Relationships EAC-CPF homepageEAC-CPF homepage | Tag LibraryTag Library The EAC-CPF Record

Knitting--Fair Isle (Scotland) Herringbone stitch binding (Binding) Cut-paper work EAC-CPF is Extensible

Stating predicates and objects: build links with our name entity <cpfRelation cpfRelationType="associative" xlink:href=" xlink:role=" Person" xlink:type="simple"> Wheless, Joseph XLink / Towards Linked Data

Some User Interface Implementations of EAC-CPF Mapping the Republic of Letters Connecting the Dots: Using EAC-CPF to Reunite Samuel Johnson and His Circle johnson-and-his-circle xEAC user interface demo Book Artists Unbound Social Networks and Archival Context Project Small World Project

Screenshots from the Book Artists Unbound project

Overview of the RAMP editor

rampeditor.info Easy to install and run from your desktop Derives, creates, and enhances EAC-CPF records  Extracts relevant data from EAD files  Pulls in external data from OCLC APIs: o VIAF o WorldCat Identities Transforms EAC-CPF records into wiki markup  Direct publication to Wikipedia through its API Browser-Based Tool

RAMP & Wikipedia: Pilot Projects

University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection  32 collections Special Collections Department & University Archives  30 collections

Wikipedia: The Benefits “Using Wikipedia to Enhance the Visibility of Digitized Archival Assets” (Szajewski 2013)

Reflections Try looking up your finding aid or digital collections URL in a Wikipedia “external links search”: RAMP makes it easy… To generate EAC-CPF records from other formats To bring in external data To future-proof local data by associating it with URIs To expand the audience for information about archives, manuscript, and other special collections

Credits Cataloging & Metadata Services Timothy Thompson Matthew Carruthers Web & Emerging Technologies Andrew Darby James Little David Gonzalez Cuban Heritage Collection Special Collections Division University Archives University of Miami Libraries

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