INDIVIDUAL ELEMENT DEFINITIONS
Coverage Organization
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| NAME | Coverage Organization |
| OBLIGATION TO USE | Provided by PBS |
| DEFINITION | Keywords that identify an entity, group, or organization 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 Organization (Contributor) |
| CONTROLLED VOCABULARY | Free Text |
| QUANTITY PERMITTED | 0-Unlimited |
| DATA TYPE | Text String |
| NOTES/GUIDELINES | This element identifies named entities, groups, or organizations. This field cannot be utilized by stations. This is a PBS provided field. However, the companion metadata element Coverage Organization (Contributor) can be used by contributors and forwarded to PBS in order to inform them about known named entities, groups, or organizations that PBS may use to more accurately describe the media item's content. |
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| VERSION NUMBER | v 1.2 |
*Reference the web page Defining Elements: Attributes
for for more information about Element Attributes in general
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