Name (English)

Name (English)

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 English short name for this country.

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Form option

Text

Repeatable

No

Form Required?

Required

AILLA Required?

Required

Map from existing

country_name

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

iso3166-1

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

to be added

XML

<authority>

    <geographic lang="eng" authority="iso3166-1">Venezuela</geographic>

<authority>