<citation> is a new element in EAD3 and a required child element of <conventiondeclaration> and <localtypedeclaration>. It is used to identify rules and conventions such as content standards, controlled vocabularies, and thesauri applied in the compilation of the description.
Attributes
- @actuate – not required. Determines whether a link occurs automatically or must be requested by a user. Possible values: onload, onrequest, other, none.
- @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.
- @arcrole – not required. Specifies the role that a remote resource plays in the link.
- @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.
- @href –not required. May be used to designate a URI/URL for the material cited.
- @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.
- @lastdatetimeverified – not required. Enter a date to specify the last date and time verified. Best practices format should be YYYY-MM-DD, up to YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss and with offset.
- @linkrole – not required. Specifies the role that a remote resource plays in the link.
- @linktitle – not required. Designates a title for the link.
- @script – not required. Four-letter code that indicates the script in which the element’s contents were written. It should come from ISO 15924.
- @show – not required. Specifies when a link will be shown. Possible values are: new, replace, embed, other, none.
Child Elements
<citation> most commonly contains text and may also contain <abbr>, <emph>, <expan>, <foreign>, <lb />, <ptr/>, and <ref>.
Adjacent Elements
<citation> is always a a required element in its parent elements. It is used after <abbr> and is followed by <descriptivenote>, both of which are optional.
Examples
<conventiondeclaration> <abbr>DACS</abbr> <citation href="https://saa-ts-dacs.github.io/dacs/" lastdatetimeverified="2013-06-05T16:30:21Z" linktitle="DACS in HTML on GitHub" actuate="onload" show="new">Describing Archives: a Content Standard</citation> <descriptivenote> <p>This finding aid conforms to the University Archives' standards for DACS-compliant description, including all Required and Optimum fields.</p> </descriptivenote> </conventiondeclaration> |
