INDIVIDUAL ELEMENT DEFINITIONS
Coverage Geographical

 

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

Provided by PBS

DEFINITION Keywords that identify the region or location 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 Geographical (Contributor)
CONTROLLED VOCABULARY Free Text
QUANTITY PERMITTED 0-Unlimited
DATA TYPE Text String
NOTES/GUIDELINES This element identifies named regions or locations. This field cannot be utilized by stations. This is a PBS provided field. However, the companion metadata element Coverage Geographical (Contributor) can be used by contributors and forwarded to PBS in order to inform them about known named regions or locations that PBS may use to more accurately describe the media item's content.
FORMAT/EXAMPLES

 
VERSION NUMBER v 1.2

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