1. 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 homepageEAC-CPF homepage | Tag LibraryTag Library An Encoding Schema

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

5. Knitting--Fair Isle (Scotland) Herringbone stitch binding (Binding) Cut-paper work 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"> Wheless, Joseph 1868-1950 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. Overview of the RAMP editor

10. 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

11. RAMP & Wikipedia: Pilot Projects

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

13. Wikipedia: The Benefits “Using Wikipedia to Enhance the Visibility of Digitized Archival Assets” (Szajewski 2013) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march13/szajewski/03szajewski.html

14. Reflections Try looking up your finding aid or digital collections URL in a Wikipedia “external links search”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch 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

15. 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

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