INDIVIDUAL ELEMENT DEFINITIONS
Coverage Time Period

 

  • Element Attribute
  • Definition & Guidelines
NAME Coverage Time Period
OBLIGATION TO USE

Provided by PBS

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

 
VERSION NUMBER v 1.2

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