<phystech> Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

<phystech> is used to encode either physical or technical details which affect the materials. Physical characteristics may affect storage, preservation or use of materials. Technical details may include information about the hardware or software necessary to preserve or access the materials. This element is comparable to ISAD(G) data element 3.4.4 and MARC fields 340 and 538.

<phystech> is one of the elements which may be used within <archdesc>, <c>, <c01> … <c12>, and itself.

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

<phystech> may contain an optional <head> element. It must contain one or more of the following: <blockquote>, <chronlist>, <list>, <p>, <table>, and further <phystech> elements.

DACS

See DACS Section 4.2, Physical access and Section 4.3, Technical access. Added value. (DACS 2013, pp.53-56)

Examples

<phystech>
    <head>Technical Requirements</head>
    <p>Minutes from 2001- are in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat or another
        PDF viewer to read.</p>
</phystech>
<phystech>
  <head>Technical Notes</head>
  <p>Access to hard drives included in the collection require the use of docking station which supports 3.5" SATA 3GB/s drives. Docking stations may be found in the University Archives' reading room.</p></phystech>

Changes from EAD 2002

<phystech> gained @lang and @script elements. @type changed to @localtype. It lost <address> and <note>.

EAD3 Tag Library Entry

View the official tag library entry for <phystech>