pbcoreCoverage is a container for subelements coverage and coverageType.

pbcoreCoverage can be contained within the elements pbcoreDescriptionDocument or pbcorePart.

Usage: optional, repeatable.

Attributes

pbcoreCoverage has no attributes.

Subelements

pbcoreCoverage contains the following subelements:

• coverage – required. The coverage element refers to either the geographic location or the time period covered by the asset’s intellectual content. For geographic locations (‘spatial’ descriptors), it is expressed by keywords such as place names (e.g. ‘Alaska’ or ‘Washington, DC’), numeric coordinates or geo-spatial data. For time-based events (‘temporal’ descriptors), it is expressed by using a date, period, era, or time-based event that is portrayed or covered in the intellectual content (e.g. ‘2007’ or ‘Victorian Era’). The PBCore metadata element coverage houses the actual spatial or temporal keywords. The companion element coverageType is used to identify the type of keywords that are being used.
• coverageType – optional. The coverageType element is used to identify the actual type of keywords that are being used by its companion metadata element coverage. coverageType provides a picklist of two possible types – spatial or temporal – because coverage in intellectual content may be expressed spatially by geographic location, or it may also be expressed temporally by a date, period, era, or time-based event.

Examples

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