INDIVIDUAL ELEMENT DEFINITIONS
Coverage Event

 

  • Element Attribute
  • Definition & Guidelines
NAME Coverage Event
OBLIGATION TO USE

Provided by PBS

DEFINITION Keywords that identify an event associated with the intellectual content of a media item. These keywords are supplied by official PBS taxonomies, but may be based on keyword descriptions offered by the contributor of a media item.
ELEMENT DEPENDENCIES Coverage Event (Contributor)
CONTROLLED VOCABULARY Free Text
QUANTITY PERMITTED 0-Unlimited
DATA TYPE Text String
NOTES/GUIDELINES This element identifies named events. This field cannot be utilized by stations. This is a PBS provided field. However, the companion metadata element Coverage Event (Contributor) can be used by contributors and forwarded to PBS in order to inform them about known named events that PBS may use to more accurately describe the media item's content.
FORMAT/EXAMPLES

 
VERSION NUMBER v 1.2

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