Confluences & Channels sailing through the contexts of European archives

Go Sugimoto Niederländisches Nationalarchiv

EAC-CPF (Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families) record creators of archival materials

EAD (Encoded Archival Description) encodes finding aids to describe archival materials

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1. What EAC-CPF offers? 2. How it works in APE? 3. What to be done? 4. What are the issues? 5. What are APE’s role?

BAUHAUS

EAC-CPF EAD

”Bauhaus”

EAC-CPF

”Mondriaan”

EAD

EAC-CPF

“ van Doesburg”

Archives in Paris

EAC-CPF

EAD

“Kandinsky”

EAD

Archives in Utrecht

EAD

Archives in Berlin

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1. EAC-CPF offers CONNECTION

1a. EAC-CPF offers DISCOVERY

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Archives Portal Europe data management Archives can manage EAC-CPF (create/modify, submit, publish, delete) and enrich (link/merge/add)

APEx project co-funded by the European Commission within the framework of the ICT Policy Support Programme

Archives Portal Europe users Users can enjoy relations (search and examine, find links to other resources) and enrich (annotate, create relations etc)

EAD etc

EAC-CPF

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2. APE offers FACILITY

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To connect, Identify the same

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard#mediaviewer/File:Jean-Luc_Godard_at_Berkeley,_1968_(1).jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Luc_Godard_at_Berkeley,_1968_(2).jpg CC-BY 2.0 Gary Stevens - Jean-Luc Godard at Berkeley, 1968

I’m Godard

So am I. Will you marry me?

Archives X Archives Y

Married with Anna Karina La Nouvelle Vague

Born in 1930 Borin in Paris

APE

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Creating connections * VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) integrated name records from 35 national libraries+ * APE - archives version of VIAF?

APE: monkey123456789

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3. EAC-CPF connected by FACILITATION

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Some issues of connecting * Who will authorise the data connection and how? * How to cope with multilingual descriptions? * How to manage conflicting facts and interpretations? * How to meet the needs of the users/researchers?

Herbie Hancok talks about Miles Davis

EAC-CPF has very poor types available (associative, family, identity, hierarchical-parent/child, temporal-earlier/later)

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3a. FACILITATION could be also by PUBLIC USERS

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Ethical questions “Find and Connect” in Australia to withdraw Person’s data: * Privacy * Rights * Abuse * Bias * Sensorship * Data fragmentation etc

APEx project co-funded by the European Commission within the framework of the ICT Policy Support Programme

4. Issues should be DISCUSSED

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5. APE can HELP Trans European connections

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VT_11.5_in_Munich_(1970).jpg CC-BY-SA 2.0

Trans Europa Express

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kraftwerk_by_Ueli_Frey_(1976).jpg CC-BY-SA 3.0, Ueli Frey, Kraftwerk concert in Zürich, 1976

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