<titlestmt> is the required first element within <filedesc>. It groups information about the title of the finding aid and those responsible for its content.
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.
- @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
<titlestmt> may have four child elements which must be used in this specific order:
- <titleproper>* (may be repeated)
- <subtitle> (may be repeated)
- <author> (may be repeated)
- <sponsor> (may be repeated)
Adjacent Elements
<titlestmt> may be followed, in order, by <editionstmt>, <publicationstmt>, <seriesstmt>, and <notestmt>.
Examples
<titlestmt> <titleproper>Guide to Quilting Technologies Department Records, 1978-2020</titleproper> <subtitle>A guide records of the Quilting Technologies Department at Piecemaking University</subtitle> <author>Ruth Tillman</author> <sponsor>Funding for the initial creation of this electronic finding aid was made possible in 1992 by a generous gift of the National Alliance of Peace Quilters. Funding for encoding was made possible in 2008 by a Piecemaking University Digital Initiatives Grant.</sponsor> </titlestmt> |
Changes from EAD 2002
<titestmt> gained @lang and @script.