1. Building Interlinked Prosopographies: A New Approach Ethan Gruber Web Services Developer American Numismatic Society gruber@numismatics.org @ewg118

2. What is XForms? W3C standard web form specification MVC architecture XPath validation Manipulate complex XML models Interacts with REST services (APIs) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XForms

3. xEAC: XForms applied to EAC-CPF XForms processor (Orbeon) XForms instructions eXist Solr Save (REST) Author/editor Web Form User (interface) HTML: XSLT+JS+CSS VIAF DBPedia Geonames Pleiades Web Services KML/ Linked Data

4. I: Basic Authorship and Linking

5. II: Adding Further Context

6. http://example.org/id/augustus http://www.smb.museum/ikmk/object.php?id=18207648 Res Gestae Divi Augusti Mausoleum of Augustus

7. Next Steps Finish form: Represent all EAC-CPF elements and attributes Test for scalability Interface with more APIs Improve public interface, especially searching and browsing Incorporate social network graph visualization Follow evolving best practices in RDF/linked open data Employ SPARQL endpoint for more sophisticated querying

8. More Information Repository: https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC Demo: http://admin.numismatics.org/xeac/http://admin.numismatics.org/xeac/ Documentation: http://wiki.numismatics.org/xeac:xeac Blog: http://eaditor.blogspot.com/