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Hi all, In the last few weeks, I have undertaken a project of EAC-CPF stubs using dbpedia and VIAF data for the Roman emperors and their relations. There's a lot of great information available through dbpedia, and since it's available in RDF, I put together a PHP script that can start at one point in dbpedia (e.g., http://dbpedia.org/resource/Augustus) and traverse through its relations to create a network of stubs using links to parents, children, spouses, influences, successors, and predecessors provided in the RDF. Left unchecked, the script would crawl forward through the Byzantine period to spread laterally (chronologically speaking) to generate a network of the ruling hierarchy of the West up to the modern period. It also goes backwards to the successors of Alexander the Great. For all I know, it goes back through all of the Egyptian dynasties to Narmer ca. 3000 BC, but I haven't let the script go that far. The script is fairly generalizable, and can begin at any dbpedia resource. It's available at https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC/blob/master/misc/dbpedia-to-eac.php I should also note that this is a work in progress. To execute the script, you'll need to place a "temp" folder in the same place you download/execute it (for writing EAC records). At a glance, here's what it does: -Creates nameEntries for all of the names available in various languages in dbpedia -If a VIAF ID is available in the RDF, the script will pull some alternate record IDs from VIAF, as well as birth and death dates -Can pull in subjects, occupations, and related resources on the web -Generate corporate/personal/family relations given the parents/children/spouses/influences/successors/predecessors/dynasties linked in dbpedia. These relations are added into an array which continually processes until presumably it reaches the end of time. -You can specify an "end" record to attempt to break this chain, but I cannot guarantee that it'll work. Anastasius (emperor of Rome ca. 500 AD) does actually successfully terminate the Augustus chain. -Import birth and death places (and associated birth and death dates, if available) I think that these stubs are a good starting point for handing off the management of EAC content to subject specialists who can add chronological and geographical context. I wrote a bit more about this script and the process applied to xEAC, an XForms-based engine for creating, editing, managing, and publishing EAC-CPF collections at http://eaditor.blogspot.com/2012/10/using-dbpedia-to-jumpstart-eac-cpf.html There's a prototype collection of the Roman Empire; if anyone is interested in taking a look at it, drop me a line off the list. Ethan