Next meeting: Party with SNAC[ks]! Services Powered by Authority Data

Structured library authority data has been around for decades as a means to disambiguate and collocate creators and contributors for indexing. In 2011, the Society of American Archivists approved a structure standard for archival authority data called Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF). The EAC-CPF schema allows for machine processable encoding of very rich creator/contributor metadata–rich enough that entire discovery systems are being built around said authority data.

At this meeting, we’ll explore one such discovery system, SNAC, the Social Networks and Archival Context Project. Then we’ll discuss Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP), which ultimately embeds archival authority data into the web of data via Wikipedia. Our very own authority data expert, Carl Horne, will be on hand to help the bibliographic-centric among us bridge the gap to current and future library practice.

All are welcome to participate!

DATE: Tuesday, November 19
TIME: 9:30—10:30am
PLACE: Wells Library Room 043
TOPIC: Party with SNAC[ks]! Services Powered by Authority Data
MODERATOR: Jennifer Liss with special guest PCC-NACO/BIBCO trainer, Carl Horne!

RESOURCES YOU MIGHT CONSULT

SNAC: The Social Networks and Archival Context Project

• I have 20 minutes:
  • SNAC: The Social Networks and Archival Context Project website http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/prototype.html
  • Howard, J. (2012 May 22). Archive watch: Building a national cooperative for archival standards. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/archive-watch-building-a-national-cooperative-for-archival-standards
  • Pitti, D. (2012 April 20). National Archival Authorities Infrastructure : Social Networks and Archival Context & National Archival Authorities Cooperative. Presentations slides retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/28718

Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP)

• I have 20 minutes:
  • View the four videos on the RAMP homepage to see a demo of the functionality of the RAMP tool: http://demo.rampeditor.info/
• I have an hour:
  • Thompson, T., Little, J., González, Darby, A. & Carruthers, M. (2013 October 14). From finding aids to wiki pages: Remixing archival metadata with RAMP. code{4}lib Journal. Retrieved from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8962