<sourceentry> Source Entry

<sourceentry> is a new element in EAD3. It is an optional child element of <source>, used to provide a textual description of a source of evidence used in the archival description.

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.
  • @transliteration – not required. A value (NMTOKEN) designating the transliteration scheme used in representing converting one script into another script.

Child Elements

<sourceentry> may contain text.

Adjacent Elements

<sourceentry> must be used first in a source element. It may be repeated. It is followed by an optional <objectxmlwrap> and optional <descriptivenote> in that order.

Our EAD file so far

<sources>
  <source id="patchwork">
    <sourceentry>Patchwork: A History of Quilting Education in the United States</sourceentry>
    <objectxmlwrap>
        <rdf:Description>
            <dc:title>Patchwork: A History of Quilting Education in the United States</dc:title>
            <dc:creator>Amelia Robinson</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>1998</dc:date>
            <dc:identifier>TX165 .R63 1998</dc:identifier>
        </rdf:Description>
    </objectxmlwrap>
    <descriptivenote>
        <p>Context for the department history note was taken from <title><part>Patchwork: A History of Quilting Education in the United States</part></title>.</p>
    </descriptivenote>
  </source>
</sources>

EAD3 Tag Library Entry

View the official tag library entry for <sourceentry>