Country Code

MADS Element: authority

Element Definition

A container that includes a standardized "authoritative" form of an agent (person or organization), an event, a title, or a term (topic, genre, geographic).

AILLA Definition

The Alpha-3 (3-letter) ISO code for this country, in upper case letters (e.g. MEX).

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Form option	Text
Repeatable	No
Form Required?	Recommended
AILLA Required?	Required
Map from existing	country_code

Subelement/Attribute Name

Definition/Description

Examples

XPath Syntax

Dublin Core

Geographic

Subelement

Supplies the authoritative names of geographic entities

mads:authority/mads:geographic

to be added

Authority

Supplies the name of the authoritative list used for the controlled vocabulary/values

iso3166-1

mads:geographic[@authority="iso3166-1"]

to be added

XML