Home > Mappings
Mappings of EAD to RiC-O and EAC to RiC-O
EAD to RiC-O
A documentation of how the ricoconverter maps EAD 2002 files to RiC-O v0.2 can be read in the Excel file EAD_to_RiC-O_0.2_documentation.xlsx. This mapping table is useful to transition from EAD to RiC-O, but this is not a formal specification and does not document all precise cases.
The precise and formal specifications are given in the form of unit tests in the Unit Tests, under unit-tests/ead2rico.
The following is a list of EAD 2002 elements that RiC-O Converter does not process, because this was considered irrelevant in the RDF world:
- frontmatter;
- runner;
- titlepage.
The following is a list of EAD 2002 elements that RiC-O converter does not process for now, because the Archives nationales de France (ANF) do not use them in their finding aids, or use them very rarely:
- abbr and expan;
- abstract;
- address (in publicationstmt);
- bioghist (the ANF most often use EAC-CPF files for encoding the biography and history of the agents that created or accumulated the archival fonds);
- blockquote;
- chronlist;
- dao;
- fileplan;
- listhead;
- materialspec;
- name;
- phystech;
- prefercite;
- sponsor (in titlestmt);
- table (and its subelements);
- title.
EAC to RiC-O
A documentation of how the ricoconverter maps EAC-CPF files to RiC-O v0.2 can be read in the Excel file EAC_to_Ric-O_0.2_documentation.xlsx. This mapping table is useful to transition from EAC to RiC-O, but this is not a formal specification and does not document all precise cases.
The precise and formal specifications are given in the form of unit tests in the Unit Tests, under unit-tests/eac2rico.
The ANF use almost all the EAC-CPF elements. However a few elements are not mapped to RiC-O, and not processed by the current version of RiC-O Converter. Let us quote the following ones, that the ANF do not use for now:
- the subelements of nameEntry (except part and useDates);
- nameEntryParallel;
- languageUsed;
- localDescription;
- abstract and chronList (subelements of biogHist);
- address (subelement of place);
- objectBinWrap, objectXMLWrap;
- functionRelation.
Examples
Input (XML) example files can be found under input-ead and input-eac.