Elements defined

coverageType

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.

Usage: option, not repeatable

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Controlled Vocabularies

• PBCore's coverageType Vocabulary (required)

Example

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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://metadataregistry.org/concept/show/id/2522.html">Spatial</coverageType>

    </pbcoreCoverage>

    <pbcoreCoverage>

            <coverage source="Wikipedia" ref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werowocomoco">Werowocomoco</coverage>

            <coverageType source="PBCore coverageType" ref="http://metadataregistry.org/concept/show/id/2522.html">Spatial</coverageType>

    </pbcoreCoverage>