<subtitle> is an optional child element of <titlestmt> used to encode a secondary or subsidiary portion of the title of the EAD finding aid. It it only available in <titlestmt>, not to create subtitles for other titles used within the finding aid.
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
<subtitle> may include text, <abbr>, <emph>, <expan>, <foreign>, <lb />, <ptr/>, and <ref>.
Adjacent Elements
<subtitle> is preceded by <titleproper> and may be followed in order by the optional <author> and <sponsor>.
Examples
<titlestmt> <titleproper>Guide to Quilting Technologies Department Records, 1978-2020</titleproper> <subtitle>A guide records of the Quilting Technologies Department at Piecemaking University</subtitle> <author>Ruth Tillman</author> <sponsor>Funding for the initial creation of this electronic finding aid was made possible in 1992 by a generous gift of the National Alliance of Peace Quilters. Funding for encoding was made possible in 2008 by a Piecemaking University Digital Initiatives Grant.</sponsor> </titlestmt> |
Changes from EAD 2002
<subtitle> gained @lang and @script attributes as well as <foreign>, and <ref> child elements. It lost deprecated element <extptr>. With the deprecation of <titlepage>, it may now only be used within <titleproper>.
