<agenttype> Agent Type

<agenttype> is a new element in EAD3 and a required child element of <maintenanceevent> used to designate the type of agent who made the maintenance event occur. It should be used to specify whether it’s a human or a machine (if an automated database routine is used to update the EAD file, for example).

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.
  • @value – REQUIRED. Values may be: human, machine, or unknown.

Child Elements

<agentype> may contain text. It may also just be used to encode the value as an empty element, see examples.

Adjacent Elements

<agenttype> is preceded by the required <eventdatetime> and followed by the required <agent>.

Examples

<maintenancehistory>
  <maintenanceevent>
    <eventtype value="derived"/>
    <eventdatetime standarddatetime="2017-03-01T08:05:33Z">March 1 2017</eventdatetime>
    <agenttype value="machine"/>
    <agent>ead2-to-ead3.xslt</agent>
    <eventdescription>Conversion from EAD 2002 finding aid using XSL transformation.</eventdescription>
  </maintenanceevent>
  <maintenanceevent>
    <eventtype value="revised"/>
    <eventdatetime standarddatetime="2017-03-02T10:05:23Z">March 2 2017</eventdatetime>
    <agenttype value="human"/>
    <agent>Ruth Tillman</agent>
    <eventdescription>Conversion from EAD 2002 revised using updated DACS principles.</eventdescription>
  </maintenanceevent>
</maintenancehistory>

EAD3 Tag Library Entry

View the official tag library entry for <agenttype>