<eventdescription> is a new element in EAD and an optional final child element of <maintenanceevent>. It may be used once or more to provide a simple textual description of the maintenance activity. This information should augment information about the <agent>, <agenttype>, <eventdatetime>, and <eventtype>.
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.
- @localtype – not required. This attribute may be used within a number of elements. Its use and values are not defined by the schema and may be defined locally.
- @script – not required. Four-letter code that indicates the script in which the element’s contents were written. It should come from ISO 15924.
Child Elements
<eventdescription> may only contain text.
Adjacent Elements
<eventdescription> must be preceded by <agent> and is the final child element of <maintenanceevent> (although it may be repeated).
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> <maintenanceevent> <eventtype value="updated"/> <eventdatetime standarddatetime="2018-06-03T13:43:33Z">June 3, 2018</eventdatetime> <agenttype value="human"/> <agent>María Ramirez</agent> <eventdescription>Updated to include 2017-2018 school year materials added to the collection.</eventdescription> </maintenanceevent> </maintenancehistory> |
