<quantity> Quantity

<quantity> is a new element in EAD3 and a required child element of <physdescstructured> used to indicate the number of <unittype>s being described. This element is a refined replacement for <extent>.

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.
  • @approximate – not required. Used to indicate whether the quantity is only approximate. Possible values are: true, false.
  • @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.
  • @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

<quantity> may contain text. The use of numbers is strongly-recommended to allow for machine processing of the information.

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>

EAD3 Tag Library Entry

View the official tag library entry for <quantity>