Encoded Archival Context (EAC)

Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (CPF)

This library enables parsing of EAC-CPF files.

The initial focus is to read EAC-CPF files that represent an individual person, which will have a node. The (Corporate body, person or family description) contains information on the name structures, descriptive elements, and relationships.

  • - Identity. Complex structure containing the name or names used by the entity over the course of the entity’s existence. Contains a repeatable element for different names, and a repeatable element for more than one expressed in different languages. Required.
  • - Description. Contains formal description elements parallel to those in ISAAR (CPF) for the description of the entity. An additional allows for local implementation of additional descriptive information not included in the other elements. Optional.
  • - Relations. Contains one or more references to or descriptions of related corporate bodies, persons or families , functions , or resources . Optional.

data

Sample data files from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin