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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 v1.0.2 can be read in the Excel file EAD_to_RiC-O_1.0.2_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. Previous mappings to RiC-0 0.2 remain available in the previous mappings table.

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 v1.0.2 can be read in the Excel file EAC_to_Ric-O_1.0.2_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. Previous mappings to RiC-0 0.2 remain available in the previous mappings table.

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 (here in the source) and input-eac (here in the source).