<otheragencycode> is used within <maintenanceagency> to supply an alternate code for the agency responsible for the creation, maintenance, or dissemination of the EAD finding aid. Official codes may be encoded within <agencycode>. If the code comes from within ISO 15511, it should be in <agencycode>.
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 – strongly suggested. Within <otheragencycode>, it should be used to specify the type of agency code being provided. The code type should be declared in <localtypedeclaration>.
- @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
<otheragencycode> may contain text. The addition of an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code as the prefix to a local code is recommended to ensure international uniqueness. It may then be used in tandem with <recordid> to provide a unique identifier for the finding aid.
Adjacent Elements
<otheragencycode> may be preceded by the optional <agencycode> and must be followed by the required <agencyname>.
Examples
<maintenanceagency> <agencycode>US-Papmua</agencycode> <otheragencycode localtype="quiltstan">PMU</otheragencycode> <agencyname>Piecemaking University Archives</agencyname> </maintenanceagency> |