Sample Records

This page provides examples of sample PBCore records in XML and human-readable text format, including a PBCore Asset record, a PBCore Instantiation record, a PBCore Asset record grouping multiple Instantiations, and a PBCore Collection record grouping multiple assets. You can refer to these records to see how PBCore concepts are implemented in real-world scenarios. If you would like to contribute sample records to this page, contact PBCoreInfo@wgbh.org.

SAMPLE RECORDS
PLAIN TEXT FORMAT
DESCRIPTION DOCUMENT: ASSET DATE: 2013-11-19 IDENTIFIER: FRON 3204 Source: PBS NOLA Code TITLE: Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? Title type: Episode TITLE: FRONTLINE Title type: Series TITLE: 3204 Title type: Episode Number SUBJECT: Lee Harvey Oswald Subject type: Person DESCRIPTION: FRONTLINE marks the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination with an encore broadcast of Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? — an investigative biography of the man at the center of the political crime of the century. The three-hour documentary special traces Oswald’s life from his boyhood to that fateful day in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, posing a number of questions - Was Oswald the emotionally disturbed “lone gunman”? Was he one of two gunmen that day in Dallas? Or was he an unwitting scapegoat for the real assassins? GENRE: Documentary CREATOR: CREATOR: Cran, William CREATOR ROLE: Producer CREATOR: CREATOR: Loeterman, Ben CREATOR ROLE: Producer
XML FORMAT 
          
            
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>

<pbcoreDescriptionDocument xmlns="http://www.pbcore.org/PBCore/PBCoreNamespace.html" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.pbcore.org/PBCore/PBCoreNamespace.html https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WGBH/PBCore_2.1/master/pbcore-2.1.xsd">

  <pbcoreAssetDate>2013-11-19</pbcoreAssetDate>

  <pbcoreIdentifier source="PBS NOLA Code">FRON 3204</pbcoreIdentifier>

  <pbcoreTitle titleType="Episode">Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?</pbcoreTitle>

  <pbcoreTitle titleType="Series">Frontline</pbcoreTitle>

  <pbcoreTitle titleType="Episode Number">3204</pbcoreTitle>

  <pbcoreSubject subjectType="Person">Lee Harvey Oswald</pbcoreSubject>

  <pbcoreDescription>FRONTLINE marks the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination with an encore broadcast of Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? — an investigative biography of the man at the center of the political crime of the century. The three-hour documentary special traces Oswald’s life from his boyhood to that fateful day in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, posing a number of questions: Was Oswald the emotionally disturbed “lone gunman”? Was he one of two gunmen that day in Dallas? Or was he an unwitting scapegoat for the real assassins?</pbcoreDescription>

  <pbcoreGenre>Documentary</pbcoreGenre>

  <pbcoreCreator>

    <creator>Cran, William</creator>

    <creatorRole>Producer</creatorRole>

  </pbcoreCreator>

  <pbcoreCreator>

    <creator>Loeterman, Ben</creator>

    <creatorRole>Producer</creatorRole>

  </pbcoreCreator>

</pbcoreDescriptionDocument>
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