<processinfo> encodes information about accessioning, arranging, describing, preserving, storing, or otherwise preparing the described materials for research use. This should be used for basic information. More-detailed information can be encoded within specific elements for each facet. The element is comparable to ISAD(G) data element 3.7.1 and MARC field 583. <date>s within the element are comparable to ISAD(G) data element 3.7.3.
<processinfo> is one of the elements which may be used within <archdesc>, <archdescgrp>, <c>, <c01> through <c12>, and <descgrp>.
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.
- TYPE – not required. This may provide more information about the type of characteristic or requirement.
Subelements
<processinfo> may contain further <processinfo> elements, as well as: <address>, <blockquote>, <chronlist>, <head>, <list>, <note>, <p>, and <table>.
DACS
See DACS Chapter 7, Notes especially 7.1.8 for processing notes and DACS Chapter 8, Description control, and specifically section 8.1.5 for information about archivist and date. Added value.
Examples
<processinfo> <head>Processing Information</head> <p>These materials were arranged by Ruth Kitchin Tillman in <date>2012</date>. Letters were not previously arranged by either correspondent or date.</p> </processinfo> |
