What is EAC-CPF and how does it enhance your institution’s description program? In this workshop you’ll learn the basic structure of EAC-CPF. It will include a discussion of balancing existing data with additional data components as part of an implementation strategy; and examine existing projects to consider how EAC-CPF may be implemented locally, regionally, or nationally.
Upon completing this workshop you’ll have:
- Knowledge of the structure and content of the EAC-CPF standard and the companion content standard ISAAR (CPF);
- Explored the metadata scheme design, including elements and attributes defined to reflect that design;
- XML techniques used to incorporate data from allied standards
- Current XML techniques leveraged in the standard; and
- Exposure to EAC–CPF projects underway in the United States and internationally.
Who should attend? Practicing archivists who are interested in the development and design of the EAC–CPF standard and deliberations introduced by the standard when considering an implementation in their repositories or consortia.
Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) was released in 2010 and adopted by the Society of American Archivists in 2011. The current standard, EAC-CPF 2.0 was released in 2022.
A&D Tier: Transformational
A&D Core Competency:
2. Description: Analyze and describe details about the attributes of a record or collection of records to facilitate identification, management, and understanding of the work.
3. Descriptive Standards: Apply rules and practices that codify the content of information used to represent archival materials in discovery tools according to published structural guidelines.
4. Discovery: Create tools to facilitate access and disseminate descriptive records of archival materials.
Registration Fee:
SAA Members: $209
Employees of SAA Member Institutions: $259
Nonmembers: $289