<maintenanceagency> is a required child element of <control> that identifies the parties responsible for creation and/or maintenance of the EAD finding aid. Do not confuse with <repository>, which identifies the institution or agency responsible for intellectual access to the described materials.
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.”
- @countrycode – not required. A unique code for the country in which the materials being described are held. Codes are to be taken from ISO 3166-1 Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries, column Alpha-2.
- @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
<maintenanceagency> must contain one or more <agencyname> elements. However, its child elements must appear in the following order:
a) An optional <agencycode> which may be used once, b) optional <otheragencycode> which may be used as many times as desired, c) the required <agencyname> which may be used multiple times to encode name variations, and d) an optional <descriptivenote> to encode any useful information about the agency’s role in relation to EAD instance or other relevant information.
Another way to look at it:
- <agencycode>
- <otheragencycode> (may be repeated)
- <agencyname>*
- <descriptivenote>
Adjacent Elements
<maintenanceagency> is preceded by the optional <publicationstatus> and may be followed in order by the optional <languagedeclaration>, <conventiondeclaration>, <localtypedeclaration>, and <localcontrol>. The next required element after those elements is <maintenancehistory>.
Examples
<maintenanceagency> <agencycode>US-Papmua</agencycode> <otheragencycode localtype="quiltlink">PMU</otheragencycode> <agencyname>Piecemaking University Archives</agencyname> </maintenanceagency> |
