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xEAC is an open-source XForms-based application for creating and managing EAC-CPF collections. The XForms backend allows editing of the XML documents in a web form, and relationships between source and target entities are maintained automatically. It is available at https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC. I have finally gotten xEAC to a stage where I feel it is ready for wider testing (and I have updated the installation documentation). This has been a few months coming, since I had intended to release the beta shortly after MARAC in November. The xEAC documentation can be found here: http://wiki.numismatics.org/xeac:xeac Features -Create, edit, publish EAC-CPF documents. Most, but not all, EAC-CPF elements are supported. -Public user interface migrated to bootstrap 3 to support mobile devices. -Maps and timelines for visualization of life events. -Basic faceted search and Solr-based Atom feed in the UI. -Export in EAC-CPF, KML, and rudimentary RDF/XML. HTML5+RDFa available in entity record pages. -Manage semantic relationships between identities ( http://eaditor.blogspot.com/2013/11/maintaining-relationships-in-eac-cpf.html). Target records are automatically updated with symmetrical or inverse relationships, where relevant, and relationships are expressed in the RDF output. TODO: parse relationship ontologies defined in RDF (e.g., http://vocab.org/relationship/.rdf) for use in xEAC. REST interactions The XForms engine interacts with the following web services to import name authorities, biographical, or geographic information: -VIAF lookup -DBPedia import -Geonames for modern places (placeEntry element) -Pleiades Gazetteer of Ancient Places (placeEntry) -Getty AAT SPARQL (occupation element) ( http://eaditor.blogspot.com/2014/03/linking-eac-cpf-occupations-to-getty-aat.html ) -SPARQL query mechanism of nomisma.org in the UI (and extensible, generalizable lookup widgets) When the OCLC linked data service supports queries by VIAF URI, I will create a lookup widget to provide lists of related bibliographic resources. TODO list I aim to improve xEAC over the following months and incorporate the following: -Finish form: Represent all EAC-CPF elements and attributes -Test for scalability -Interface with more APIs in the editing interface -Improve public interface, especially searching and browsing -Employ SPARQL endpoint for more sophisticated querying and visualization, automatically publish to SPARQL on EAC-CPF record save. -Incorporate social network graph visualization (see SPARQL, above) -Follow evolving best practices in RDF, support export in TEI for prosopographies (http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Prosopography) and CIDOC-CRM. -Interact with SNAC or international entity databases which evolve from it. Resources: Blog: http://eaditor.blogspot.com/ MARAC slideshow: http://eaditor.blogspot.com/2013/11/marac-fall-2013-presentation.html Prototype site: http://admin.numismatics.org/xeac/