PBCore Metadata: Coverage.Temporal

DRAFT v0.9 03 Feb 2004

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Descriptions about the
CONTENT...

01.00	Title
01.01	Title.Alternative
01.02	Title.Series
01.03	Title.Program
01.04	Title.Episode
03.00	Subject
04.00	Description
04.01	Description.Abstract
04.02	Description.TableOfContents
04.03	Description.ProgramRelatedText
08.00	Type
08.01	Type.Form
08.02	Type.Genre
11.00	Source
13.01	Relation.Type
13.02	Relation.Identifier
14.01	Coverage.Spatial
14.02	Coverage.Temporal
16.01	Audience.Level
16.02	Audience.Rating

Descriptions related to
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY...

02.00	Creator
02.01	Creator.Role
05.00	Publisher
05.01	Publisher.Role
06.00	Contributor
06.01	Contributor.Role
15.01	Rights.Usage
15.02	Rights.Reproduction
15.03	Rights.Access

Descriptions identifying
a media asset's
INSTANTIATION...

07.01	Date.Created
07.02	Date.Issued
07.03	Date.AvailableStart
07.04	Date.AvailableEnd
09.01	Format.Physical
09.02	Format.Digital
09.03	Format.Identifier
09.04	Format.FileSize
09.05	Format.AudioBitDepth
09.06	Format.AudioChannelConfiguration
09.07	Format.AudioDataRate
09.08	Format.AudioSamplingRate
09.09	Format.ImageAspectRatio
09.10	Format.ImageBitDepth
09.11	Format.ImageChannelConfiguration
09.12	Format.ImageColorCode
09.13	Format.ImageDataRate
09.14	Format.ImageFrameRate
09.15	Format.ImageFrameSize
09.16	Format.TimeStart
09.17	Format.Duration
09.18	Format.Standard
09.19	Format.Type
09.20	Format.Encoding
10.00	Identifier
12.00	Language
12.01	Language.Usage
18.00	Annotation
19.00	Location

Descriptions beyond
the PBCore Metadata

99.00

Special Extensions

14.02

Coverage.Temporal

COMMENTS FROM RFC

DESCRIPTION

REFINEMENTS

EXPERTS

Vedro Report

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Describe this Element

Name	Coverage.Temporal
Definition	The element COVERAGE.TEMPORAL is used for date, period, and time-based events. It identifies the extent or scope of the resource's content from the perspective of the temporal or time characteristics of the intellectual content of a resource. Time periods are preferred over numeric identifiers. [ see the DCMI Definition ]
Refinements and Encoding Schemes	Use free-form text entry.
Refinements and Encoding Schemes
Guidelines for Usage	When entering date and time data, care should be taken to provide consistent information that can be interpreted by users. Temporal coverage carries within it the concept of physical temporal boundaries and should provide additional information to identify the date/time period of the intellectual content of the resource if needed. If a date is approximate, add a question mark but 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. This element should be used in order to support more precise searching than provided by the elements SUBJECT, TITLE, or DESCRIPTION. If temporal coverage is sufficiently indicated in the SUBJECT, TITLE, or DESCRIPTION elements, then use of the COVERAGE.TEMPORAL element is not necessary. PBCore does NOT recommend the use of specific date/time encoding rules as established by the ISO 8601 profile (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).
Obligation to Use	Optional
Repeatable Element	Apply multiple times, as needed
Type of Data Entry	Text String

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1995-1996

17th century

1984 ?

US Civil War Era; 1861-1865

Other Attributes of this Element

Element Label	Coverage.Temporal
Element Version	PBCore v1.1
Namespace Identifier	Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1 http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/temporal
Registration Authority	DCMI
Language of the Element	eng

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