Name (Spanish)

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 Spanish country name.

Search for names at http://www.geonames.org/ by entering country name. In search results table, click the name of country in the Country column. Then click "other languages" next to the country name. Find "Spanish" in the Language column and match it to the affiliated country name in "Name" column. Note that there might be more than one choice. Chose the most common Spanish name for this country.

Form option	Text
Repeatable	No
Form Required?	Required
AILLA Required?	Required

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
Language	Defines the name of the language with the correct iso3166 character code	eng	mads:geographic[@lang="eng"]	to be added
Authority	Supplies the name of the authoritative list used for the controlled vocabulary/values	GeoNames	mads:geographic[@authority="geonames"]	to be added
Authority URI	Defines the URI for the authority list	http://sws.geonames.org	mads:geographic[@authorityURI="https://sws.geonames.org"]	to be added

XML

<geographic lang="spa" authority="geonames" authorityURI="http://sws.geonames.org">Venezuela</geographic>