<physdescset> Physical Description Set

<physdescset> is a new EAD3 element used within <did> to group multiple <physdescstructured> elements which have the same total @coverage level, either a whole or a part of the collection. Its child elements may or may not be parallel. If not parallel, then they each describe a different part of the whole/part which is described by the <physdescset>, i.e. 15 videocassettes and 3 diaries. If parallel, then they may be different ways to describe the same things, whether in different languages or in different way. Each set must contain at least two <physdescstructured> elements. While neither @coverage nor @parallel are required, they should be used for best description.

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.”
• @coverage – not required. Indicates whether the set contains physical descriptions for the whole or just part of the collection. Possible values: whole, part.
• @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.
• @parallel – not required. Indicates whether the items contained in the set are parallel to each other or not. Possible values are: true, false.
• @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

<physdescset> must contain at least two <physdescstructured> elements.

Example

<did>
  <unittitle>Department Minutes</unittitle>
  <unitdatestructured unitdatetype="inclusive">
    <dateset>
      <daterange>
        <fromdate standarddate="1978">1978</fromdate>
        <todate standarddate="1982">1983</todate>
      </daterange>
      <datesingle standarddate="1985">1985</datesingle>
      <daterange>
        <fromdate standarddate="1987">1987</fromdate>
        <todate standarddate="2020">2020</todate>
      </daterange>
    </dateset>
  </unitdatestructured>
  <physdescset parallel="false" coverage="whole">
    <physdescstructured coverage="part" physdescstructuredtype="carrier">
      <quantity>6</quantity>
      <unittype>boxes</unittype>
    </physdescstructured>
    <physdescstructured coverage="part" physdescstructuredtype="materialtype">
      <quantity>143</quantity>
      <unittype>electronic files</unittype>
    </physdescstructured>
  </physdescset>
</did>

<did>
  <unittitle>Colloquia and Symposia</unittitle>
  <physdescset parallel="true" coverage="part">
    <physdescstructured physdescstructuredtype="spaceoccupied" coverage="part">
      <quantity>7</quantity>
      <unittype>linear feet</unittype>
    </physdescstructured>
    <physdescstructured physdescstructuredtype="carrier" coverage="part">
      <quantity>14</quantity>
      <unittype>boxes</unittype>
    </physdescstructured>
    <physdescstructured physdescstructuredtype="materialtype" coverage="part">
      <quantity>28</quantity>
      <unittype>videocasettes</unittype>
    </physdescstructured>
  </physdescset>
<physdescstructured physdescstructuredtype="spaceoccupied" coverage="part">
  <quantity>792</quantity>
  <unittype>GB</unittype>
</physdescstructured>
</did>

EAD3 Tag Library Entry

View the official tag library entry for <physdescset>