<languagedeclaration> is a new element in EAD and an optional child element of <control>, which specifies the <language> and <script> in which the finding aid is written. If there are multiple languages, it may be repeated.
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.”
- @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.
- @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
<languagedeclaration> must contain <language> and <script> in that order. It may also contain an optional <descriptivenote> element to give any clarification of the languages used.
Adjacent Elements
<languagedeclaration> is preceded by the required <maintenanceagency> and may be followed by an optional <conventiondeclaration>, <localtypedeclaration>, and <localcontrol>. The next required element after those elements is <maintenancehistory>.
Example
<languagedeclaration> <language langcode="eng">English</language> <script scriptcode="latn">Latin</script> </languagedeclaration> |
EAD3 Tag Library Entry
View the official tag library entry for <languagedeclaration>
