INDIVIDUAL ELEMENT DEFINITIONS
Coverage People (Contributor)

 

  • Element Attribute
  • Definition & Guidelines
NAME Coverage People (Contributor)
OBLIGATION TO USE

Optional
DEFINITION Keywords that identify a person associated with the intellectual content of a media item. These keyword descriptions may be offered by the contributor of a media item in order to inform PBS official taxonomies.
ELEMENT DEPENDENCIES Coverage People
CONTROLLED VOCABULARY Free Text
QUANTITY PERMITTED 0-Unlimited
DATA TYPE Text String
NOTES/GUIDELINES This element identifies a person. This field can be utilized by contributors and forwarded to PBS in order to inform them about a known name that PBS may use to more accurately describe the media item's content (for the metadata element Coverage People as provided by PBS).
FORMAT/EXAMPLES

Look to an authoritative source such as the Library of Congress or the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) for guidance on the format for entering personal names. Determine the official name as it is mostly commonly known.

Format:
Enter personal names in inverted form using commas as indicated here:

LastName, FirstName MiddleName, Suffix.
> Substitute a MiddleInitial for a MiddleName as appropriate, or ignore if not available.
> The suffix is any type of academic credential (Ph.D., Ed.D.) or familial lineage (Smithee, Alan, III)

Smithee, Alan
Smithee, Alan, III
Grande, Lucida
Grande, Lucida B.
Hattenschweiler, Hans, Ph.D.
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