<unitid> is an alpha-numeric text string that serves as a unique reference point or control number for descibed material. It is an important child element of the <did>. While it may provide location information as a secondary function, it is primarily meant as a logical designation. Other <did> child elements such as <physloc> and <container> should be used to specifically designate the physical location. It is also not the same as the <recordid>, which is the unique identification string for the finding aid.
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.”
- @countrycode – not required. The ISO 3166-1 code for the country in which the described materials are being held.
- @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.
- @identifier – not required. A machine-readable unique identifier related to the content of the element.
- @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.
- @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.
- @repositorycode – not required. The unique code used to indicate the repository which has physical control of the described materials. Should be taken from ISO 15511.
- @script – not required. Four-letter code that indicates the script in which the element’s contents were written. It should come from ISO 15924.
The @countrycode and @repositorycode attributes are not required, but should be used at in the high-level <did>(the one directly within <archdesc>) to comply with ISAD(G) 3.1.1.
Child Elements
<unitid> may contain text as well as <abbr>, <emph>, <expan>, <foreign>, <lb />, <ptr/>, and <ref>.
DACS
Use DACS 2.1.3, Local identifier for the value Use DACS 2.1.4, Repository identifier for the @repositorycode attribute. Use 2.1.5, Country identifier for the @countrycode attribute. Required. (DACS 2013, pp.14-15) Chapter 2.1 on the DACS site.
Example
<did> <unittitle>Quilting Technologies Department Records</unittitle> <unitid>QD-011</unitid> <unitdate normal="1978/2020" unitdatetype="inclusive">1978-2020</unitdate> <physdesc>10 linear feet</physdesc> <physdesc>221 GB</physdesc> </did> |
Changes from EAD 2002
<unitid> gained @lang and @script. @type was changed to @localtype. It may no longer contain <archref>, <bibref>, and <title>, as well as deprecated <extptr>, <extref>, <linkgrp>.
