<publicationstmt> is an optional wrapper child element of <filedesc> that provides information regarding the publication or distribution of the EAD file.
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
<publicationstmt> must contain one or more of the following: <address>, <date>, <num>, <p>, and, most importantly, <publisher>. Like the others, <publisher> itself is not required, but at least one of the elements must be used and best practices would be to use it if a known publisher existed.
- <publisher>** (may be repeated)
- <date>** (may be repeated)
- <address>** (may be repeated)
- <num>** (may be repeated)
- <p>** (may be repeated)
Adjacent Elements
<publicationstmt> may be preceded by the optional <editionstmt> and may be followed by optional <seriesstmt>, and <notestmt> in that order.
Examples
<publicationstmt> <publisher>Piecemaking University</publisher> <date normal="2020-06-08">June 8, 2020</date> <address> <addressline>University Archives</addressline> <addressline>Piecemaking University</addressline> <addressline>Lancaster, PA 17603</addressline> <addressline localtype="phone">+1-717-555-1313</addressline> <addressline localtype="email">archivist@piecemaking.edu</addressline> </address> </publicationstmt> |
Changes from EAD 2002
<publicationstmt> gained attributes @lang and @script.