<langmaterial> is an optional child element of <did> which specifies the language(s) in which the described materials were written and allows for description of the use through <descriptivenote>. Do not confuse with <languagedeclaration> in control, which specifies the language(s) in which the finding aid is written.
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.
- @label – not required. This can be used when a meaningful display label for an element can’t be derived by the stylesheet from its name. It is available in all <did> subelements.
- @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.
Child Elements
<langmaterial> must contain at least one <language> or <languageset> element (and may contain more). It may also contain a <descriptivenote> used to explain the usage of the language(s).
DACS
See DACS Chapter 4.5, Languages/scripts of the material. Required.
Example
<langmaterial> <languageset> <language langcode="vie">Vietnamese</language> <script scriptcode="tavt">Tai Viet</script> </languageset> </langmaterial> |
Changes from EAD 2002
<langmaterial> gained attributes @lang and @script. Its child element options were reduced to either <language> or <languageset> and a possible <descriptivenote>. It has become much less prose-focused and more organized.
