<c> Component

<c> is a wrapper element found within <dsc>, and which may be nested within another <c> element. Each <c> element identified an intellectually logical section of described materials, which need not coincide with the physical sections. Not every <c> corresponds to directly to a folder, etc. It may simply be a hierarchical stage.

<c> may have levels assigned through the @level or @otherlevel attribute, as seen in the attributes section below. Nesting <c> may also be done as <c01> to <c12>, to help a manual encoder track levels more easily and preserve the code’s structure or to help the transformation sheet handle components differently.

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.”
  • @base – not required. May contain a URI to create a base URI used to resolve any relative URIs used within the child elements, if the base URI differs from the base URI of the EAD instance.
  • @encodinganalog – not required. May contain information to map this tag to a particular element in another schema.
  • @id – not required. Creates an ID for element. Can be used for linking.
  • @lang – not required. Three-letter code that indicates the language in which the element’s contents were written. It should come from ISO 639-2b.
  • @level – not required. The values of this attribute may be: class, collection, file, fonds, item, otherlevel, recordgrp, series, subfonds, subgrp, and subseries. For any other value of @level (such as from a locally-assigned vocabulary) choose “otherlevel” as the value, and specify name in @otherlevel attribute. Assigning an attribute to the highest-level <c> is highly-recommended.
  • @otherlevel – not required. If the designated value options for @level do not fit the repository needs, “otherlevel” should be used as the value for @level and the alternate term should be specified here.
  • @script – not required. Four-letter code that indicates the script in which the element’s contents were written. It should come from ISO 15924.

Child Elements

<c> must have a <did> element and may contain further <c> elements, as well as optional <accessrestrict>, <accruals>, <acqinfo>, <altformavail>, <appraisal>, <arrangement>, <bibliography>, <bioghist>, <controlaccess>, <custodhist>, <fileplan>, <head>, <index>, <legalstatus>, <odd>, <originalsloc>, <otherfindaid>, <phystech>, <prefercite>, <processinfo>, <relatedmaterial>, <relations>, <scopecontent>, <separatedmaterial>, <thead>, and <userestrict>. Note, since text is not used within this element, it serves as a wrapper.

DACS

Use DACS Section 1. Level of description for the @level attribute. (DACS 2013, pp.7-11)

Examples

<c level="series">
  <did>
   <unittitle>Annual Reports</unittitle>
    <unitdatestructured unitdatetype="inclusive">
      <daterange>
        <fromdate>1979-2019</fromdate>
      </daterange>
    </unitdatestructured>
    <physdescstructured coverage="part" physdescstructuredtype="carrier">
      <quantity>2</quantity>
      <unittype>boxes</unittype>
    </physdescstructured>
    <container containerid="9095822543104" localtype="box">7</container>
    <container containerid="9095822543105" localtype="box">8</container>
    <daoset>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 1999" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-1999.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2000" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2000.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2001" href="http://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2001.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2002" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2002.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2003" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2003.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2004" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2004.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2005" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-20045.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2006" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2006.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2007" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2007.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2008" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2008.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2009" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2009.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2010" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2010.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2011" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2011.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2012" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2012.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2013" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2013.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2014" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2014.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2015" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2015.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2016" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2016.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2017" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2017.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2018" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2018.pdf"/>
      <dao daotype="borndigital" coverage="part" actuate="onrequest" show="new" linkrole="application/pdf" linktitle="Annual Report: 2019" href="https://archives.piecemaking.edu/files/qd011/annual-report-2019.pdf"/>
      <descriptivenote>
        <p>Annual reports from 1999 to present available as PDFs.</p>
      </descriptivenote>
    </daoset>
  </did>
  <accruals>
    <head>Accruals</head>
    <p>The annual report is published in July or August and transferred to the archives sometime between then and the end of the following school year.</p>
  </accruals>
  <arrangement>
    <head>Arrangement</head>
    <p>Annual reports are arranged chronologically.</p>
  </arrangement>
  <phystech>
    <head>Technical Requirements</head>
    <p>Minutes from 2001- are in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat or another PDF viewer to read.</p>
  </phystech>
  <legalstatus>
    <head>Legal Status</head>
    <p>Annual reports are copyright Piecemaking University, which has released all its departmental annual reports to the public domain.</p>
  </legalstatus>
</c>
<c level="item">
  <did>
    <unittitle>Map of American Quilt Guilds</unittitle>
    <unitdate>1999</unitdate>
    <abstract>The map combines data from state directories and the <expan abbr="MQG">Modern Quilt Guild</expan>.</abstract>
    <materialspec localtype="scale">1:4,000,000</materialspec>
    <physdescstructured coverage="whole" physdescstructuredtype="materialtype">
      <quantity>1</quantity>
      <unittype>map</unittype>
      <dimensions localtype="width" unit="cm">88</dimensions>
      <dimensions localtype="height" unit="cm">90</dimensions>
    </physdescstructured>
  </did>
</c>

Changes from EAD 2002

<c> lost the attribute @tpattern and gained @lang and @script. It lost <dao> and dao-related elements and the deprecated <note>. It gained <relations> and <legalstatus>.

EAD3 Tag Library Entry

View the official tag library entry for <c>