<change> is an optional subelement of <revisiondesc> within <eadheader>. It is used to encode a brief description of updates made to the EAD document. A new <change> element must be used for each change. The element should contain both the date and a description of the update. <change> is different from the <edition> element, which is used when the finding aid has been so substantially changed that it constitutes a new version of 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.”
- ID – not required. Creates an ID for element. Can be used for linking.
- ENCODINGANALOG – not required. May contain information to map this tag to a particular element in another schema.
Subelements
<change> may contain <date> and <item> elements, and probably should contain both. Simply including the date isn’t very helpful, but an item without a date isn’t best practices.
Our EAD file so far
Still a wrapper, but since <date> and <item> are generic elements, we’ll add them too:
<ead> <eadheader> <eadid countrycode="us" mainagencycode="dgwl" url="http://www.eadiva.com/sample/">rkt-01</eadid> <filedesc> <titlestmt> <titleproper>Inventory of Something Useful for Learning EAD <date>2012-2013</date></titleproper> <subtitle>A totally awesome finding aid with a subtitle too</subtitle> <author>Ruth K. Tillman, the EADiva</author> <sponsor>Encoding thanks to EADiva's donation of her spare time.</sponsor> </titlestmt> <editionstmt><edition>1st ed.</edition> <p>Didn't need to specify since it's first edition, but wanted to use the fields.</p> </editionstmt> <publicationstmt> <date>2012</date> <publisher>EADiva.com</publisher> <address> <addressline>1600 Pennsylvania Ave</addressline> <addressline>Washington, DC, 20001</addressline> <addressline>Phone: 202-555-1234</addressline> </address> </publicationstmt> <seriesstmt><p>Bell Family Papers</p> </seriesstmt> <notestmt> <note> <p>The materials in this finding aid are based on an actual collection of Sarah J. Bell Kitchin's letters.</p> </note> <note> <p>This finding aid was created as a project for the EADiva.com website.</p> </note> </notestmt> </filedesc> <profiledesc> <creation>This finding aid was encoded by Ruth K. Tillman, on <date normal="20121118">November 18th, 2012</date>, using Notepad++. Material was generated off the top of her head.</creation> <descrules>This finding aid was prepared using Ruth's understanding of EAD and her use of the LOC EAD 2002 official website.</descrules> <langusage>This finding aid is written in <language langcode="eng">English</language>. </langusage> </profiledesc> <revisiondesc> <change> <date normal="20121204">December 4, 2012</date> <item>This finding aid was edited by Ruth Tillman in order to clarify contents in eadheader.</item> </change> </revisiondesc> </eadheader> <frontmatter><!--we're going to display it here just to show how it's used--> </frontmatter> <archdesc> </archdesc> </ead> |