coverageType 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.
coverageType can only be contained by pbcoreCoverage.
Usage: optional, not repeatable.
Attributes
coverageType has no attributes.
Subelements
coverageType contains no subelements.
Controlled Vocabularies
PBCore coverageType (required)
Examples
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<pbcoreCoverage> <coverage>1607-1631</coverage> <coverageType annotation="historical">Temporal</coverageType> </pbcoreCoverage> <pbcoreCoverage> <coverage>2007</coverage> <coverageType annotation="current">Temporal</coverageType> </pbcoreCoverage> <pbcoreCoverage> <coverage source="GeoNames" ref="http://www.geonames.org/maps/google_37.208_-76.774.html">Jamestown, VA</coverage> <coverageType>Spatial</coverageType> </pbcoreCoverage> <pbcoreCoverage> <coverage source="latitude, longitude">37.2000,-76.7667</coverage> <coverageType source="PBCore coverageType" ref="http://pbcore.org/vocabularies/coverageType#spatial">Spatial</coverageType> </pbcoreCoverage> <pbcoreCoverage> <coverage source="Wikipedia" ref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werowocomoco">Werowocomoco</coverage> <coverageType source="PBCore coverageType" ref="http://pbcore.org/vocabularies/coverageType#spatial">Spatial</coverageType> </pbcoreCoverage> |
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