<publisher> is a child element of <publicationstmt> within <filedesc>. It identifies the institution or agency responsible for the distribution of the EAD file. While it is technically not required within <publicationstmt>, it is recommended for best practices.
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.
- @localtype – not required. This attribute may be used within a number of elements. Its use and values are not defined by the schema and may be defined locally.
- @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
<publisher> may contain text, as well as <abbr>, <emph>, <expan>, <foreign>, <lb />, <ptr/>, and <ref>.
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
<publisher> gained @lang, @localtype, and @script attributes. It also gained <abbr>, <expan>, <foreign>, and <ref>. It lost the deprecated <extptr>.