<seriesstmt> Series Statement

If the encoded finding aid belongs to a published monographic series, use the <seriesstmt>, a wrapper element within <filedesc>, to encode information about the series. The information may simply be encoded in <p> tags or include the <titleproper> and <num> elements for greater specificity.

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

All text within <seriesstmt> must be encoded within subelements. The generic elements <p> and <num>, and specific element <titleproper> may all be used.

Our EAD file so far

I’m going to refer to a fictional “Bell Family Papers” as the series:

<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>
		</filedesc>
		<profiledesc>
		</profiledesc>
		<revisiondesc>
		</revisiondesc>
	</eadheader>
	<frontmatter><!--we're going to display it here just to show how it's used-->
	</frontmatter>
	<archdesc>
	</archdesc>
</ead>

EAD tag library entry for <seriesstmt>.