<legalstatus> is used to encode the statutorily-defined status of the materials being described in the encoded finding aid. It is found within the <accessrestrict> element and comparable to the ISAD(G) data element 3.4.1 and MARC field 506. It is used within <accessrestrict>.
Attributes
- ALTRENDER – not required. Use if the content of the element should be displayed or printed differently than the rendering established in a style sheet for other occurrences of the element.
- AUDIENCE – not required. Use to set whether the element’s contents will be visible to external users or to internal ones. Possible values are: “internal” and “external.”
- ID – not required. Creates an ID for element. Can be used for linking.
- ENCODINGANALOG – not required. May contain information to map this tag to a particular element in another schema.
- TYPE – not required. This may provide more information on the type of status.
Subelements
<legalstatus> will likely contain plain text as PCDATA and may contain the following elements: <date>, <emph>, <extptr>, <lb />, and <ptr>.
Examples
Some examples of possible legal status entries:
<accessrestrict> <legalstatus>Public domain as of <date>1993</date>.</legalstatus> </accessrestrict> |
<accessrestrict> <legalstatus>Public records</legalstatus> </accessrestrict> |
<accessrestrict> <legalstatus>Under copyright.</legalstatus> </acessrestrict> |
