INDIVIDUAL ELEMENT DEFINITIONS
Coverage Time Period (Contributor)
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| NAME | Coverage Time Period (Contributor) |
| OBLIGATION TO USE | Optional |
| DEFINITION | Keywords that identify the temporal period 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 Time Period |
| CONTROLLED VOCABULARY | Free Text |
| QUANTITY PERMITTED | 0-Unlimited |
| DATA TYPE | Text String |
| NOTES/GUIDELINES | This element identifies a date/time period associated with the content of a media item. This field can be utilized 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 (for the metadata element Coverage Time Period as provided by PBS). |
| FORMAT/EXAMPLES | If a date is approximate, add a question mark. Separate the date from the question mark by a space so that the question mark is not interpreted as part of the date value by a search engine, e.g., 1972 ? 1995-1996 |
| 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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