Introduces the standard Encoded Archival Context—Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families (EAC-CPF) and situates it in the wider archival standards landscape.

Katherine M. Wisser is an associate professor at the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. She serves as the co-director of the dual degree program in Archives and History. She holds an MA in history, an MSLS, and a PhD in Information Science. She teaches courses on archival description and metadata. Wisser served as the chair to the working group that formalized the EAC-CPF standard and currently serves as co-chair of the Technical Subcommittee responsible for the creation and maintenance of archival encoding standards for the Society of American Archivists.

Introduction • 242

Archival Description • 245
The Development of Archival Description • 245
Authority Control and Archives • 248
Relationships in Archival Description • 253

Encoded Archival Context–Corporate Bodies, Persons,
and Families • 254
The Development of EAC-CPF • 254
Relationship to ISAAR(CPF), DACS 2nd Edition, RDA, and FRAD • 259
Introduction to the EAC-CPF Standard • 262
Basic EAC-CPF Structure • 264
Identity • 265
Description • 266
Relations • 266
Design Aspects • 269
Flexibility • 269
Extensibility • 271
New Developments • 272
Uses of EAC-CPF • 273

The Impact of EAC-CPF on Descriptive Practices • 277

Appendices
Appendix A: Further Readings • 279
Appendix B: Case Study • 283
Incrementally Implementing EAC-CPF at the University of Illinois Archives
by Christopher J. Prom
Appendix C: Crosswalks: FRAD, RDA, DACS, ISAAR(CPF), MARC Authority,
and EAC-CPF • 295