WNAF and EAC CPF
As the project team for the Western Name Authority File explored a variety of options, EAC-CPF was the schema that was the most closely aligned with the long-term goals of the project.
- The majority of the partners who contributed names to WNAF are working with digitized special collections
- EAC-CPF entities can have a variety of attributes that describe both personal characteristics, and the special collections materials related to those entities.
- The Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) project provided an example for how large scale discovery for people and connections associated with special collections can be visualized
For a basic WNAF record, we were not planning on implementing the full EAC-CPF schema, but a selection of the tags used in our OmekaS resource template, along with some dcterms elements are:
Example of record from the back end of WNAF:
Title
authorizedForm
alternativeForm
existDates
localControl
maintenanceAgency
resourceRelation
Spatial Coverage
entityId
entityType
Woodruff, Abraham Owen, 1872-1904
Woodruff, Abraham Owen, 1872-1904
Owen, Woodruff
1872-1904
PN000042485
Utah Department of Heritage and Arts
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/search?facet_setname_s=dha_cp
Utah
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2003010076
Personal Name