FYI
– a “second showing” of the EAC webinar.
Michele
From: Schaffner,Jennifer
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Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:48 PM
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Cc: Renspie,Melissa
Subject: [archives] EAC-CPF Webinar for the Pacific Rim on Tuesday, 3
November at 4:00 p.m. US/Pacific
Webinar
Invitation: EAC-CPF Webinar for the Pacific Rim on Wednesday, 4 November at
11:00 a.m. Sydney/Melbourne Time
Due
to popular demand and to accommodate attendees from different time zones, OCLC
Research, the RLG Partnership and the EAC Working Group are holding another
EAC-CPF webinar. We invite archivists, authorities librarians, system
developers and linked-data geeks to discuss the draft EAC-CPF standard (Encoded
Archival Context—Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families) on Wednesday,
4 November at 11:00 a.m. Sydney/Melbourne Time (which is Tuesday, 3
November at
4:00 p.m. US/Pacific; other time-zone
translations are listed below).
This
webinar is free and open to the general library and archives community.
EAC-CPF (EAC for
short) is a communications structure (XML schema) for archival contextual
information. EAC records are akin to traditional MARC authority records, while
also enabling inclusion of much greater contextual information, such as
biographical information about people and administrative history of
governmental and private organizations. EAC records would complement and be
linked to EAD (Encoded Archival Description) descriptions of particular
archival collections. The final draft EAC schema is open for comment until October
31, 2009.
Imagine EAC records
as a new data source about entities that produce archival and manuscripts
materials. In addition, they can provide meaningful links to related access
points in many domains. EAC’s capabilities enable important steps toward
an archival component of the Semantic Web.
In this webinar,
Kathy Wisser, chair of the international EAC Working Group, will introduce the
EAC-CPF standard and then open the phone and chat lines for questions. Basil
Dewhurst, Manager of Resource Discovery Services at the National Library of
Australia and member of the EAC Working Group, will also be online to
participate in the discussion.
Please join
us! The EAC Working group needs your input!
·
Register
to attend this webinar.
·
Learn more about EAC, the EAC
schema and the tag library.
·
Read
this webinar announcement
online.
·
Contact
Jennifer Schaffner with
questions or comments.
This
one-hour webinar will
be held at the following time in these time zones:
Tuesday 3 November at:
·
EST
(USA) – 7:00 p.m.
·
PST
(USA) – 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday 4 November at:
·
Western
Australia, Perth – 08:00 a.m.
·
Northern
Territory – 09:30 a.m.
·
Queensland
– 10:00 a.m.
·
South
Australia – 10:30 a.m.
·
New
Zealand/Wellington – 1:00 p.m.
Need
more time-zone information? Check out the WorldClock Time
Zone Converter or click on the link to register
for the webinar and select “add to my calendar” to add the webinar to your
calendar at the correct time in your location.
*******************************************
Jennifer
Schaffner
Program
Officer
OCLC
Research and the RLG Partnership
650.287.2140
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