bibliocoverage
bibliocoverage — The spatial or temporal coverage of a document.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
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- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
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Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes:
- All of:
- Exactly one of:
- spatial (enumeration)
- “dcmipoint”
- “iso3166”
- “dcmibox”
- “tgn”
- Each of:
- spatial (enumeration)
- “otherspatial”
- otherspatial (NMTOKEN)
- spatial (enumeration)
- spatial (enumeration)
- Exactly one of:
- temporal (enumeration)
- “dcmiperiod”
- “w3c-dtf”
- Each of:
- temporal (enumeration)
- “othertemporal”
- othertemporal (NMTOKEN)
- temporal (enumeration)
- temporal (enumeration)
- Exactly one of:
Required attributes are shown in bold.
Description
The bibliocoverage element is equivalent to the
coverage element of the Dublin Core Metadata Element
Set [DCMI].
The Dublin Core defines coverage as “the extent or scope of the content of the resource.” It goes on to say:
Spatial topic and spatial applicability may be a named place or a location specified by its geographic coordinates. Temporal topic may be a named period, date, or date range. A jurisdiction may be a named administrative entity or a geographic place to which the resource applies.
Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online []. Where appropriate, named places or time periods can be used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges.
DocBook V4.2 added
bibliocoverage, bibliorelation,
and bibliosource to make the DocBook meta-information
wrappers a superset of the Dublin Core.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline. Sometimes suppressed.
This element is used for both spatial and temporal coverage, but
only one should be specified at a time. In other words, on any given
instance of the bibliocoverage element, specify
either the spatial attribute or
the temporal attribute, but not
both.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- otherspatial
A keyword that identifies the type of non-standard coverage
- othertemporal
A keyword that identifies the type of non-standard coverage
- spatial
Specifies the type of spatial coverage
Enumerated values: “dcmipoint” The DCMI Point identifies a point in space using its geographic coordinates
“iso3166” ISO 3166 Codes for the representation of names of countries
“dcmibox” The DCMI Box identifies a region of space using its geographic limits
“tgn” The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- spatial
Specifies the type of spatial coverage
Enumerated values: “otherspatial” Identifies a non-standard type of coverage
- temporal
Specifies the type of temporal coverage
Enumerated values: “dcmiperiod” A specification of the limits of a time interval
“w3c-dtf” W3C Encoding rules for dates and times—a profile based on ISO 8601
- temporal
Specifies the type of temporal coverage
Enumerated values: “othertemporal” Specifies a non-standard type of coverage
Parents
These elements contain bibliocoverage: biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info).