Subject | EADiva Toggle navigation About Blog Me Contact List of Elements Alphabetical List of Elements Sample EAD Files Submit A Plain-Talking EAD Tag Library Home About List of Elements Alphabetical Element List Sample EAD Files Blog Me Contact Subject encodes a topic associated with or covered by the described materials. When the subject is a person, corporation, or geographic region, , , and should be used, with their ROLE attribute set to “subject.” Not all subjects in the finding aid need to be tagged, but this element may be used to encode any for which more than keyword searching access should be available. It may be used within , , , , , , , , ,

, , , , , and . Subjects with major representation in the materials should be listed within even if the names are encoded elsewhere. Attributes ALTRENDER – not required. Use if the content of the element should be displayed or printed differently than the rendering established in a style sheet for other occurrences of the element. AUDIENCE – not required. Use to set whether the element’s contents will be visible to external users or to internal ones. Possible values are: “internal” and “external.” ID – not required. Creates an ID for element. Can be used for linking. AUTHFILENUMBER – not required. A number that identifies the authority file record for an access term drawn from that authority file (the source for this number/the access term should be in SOURCE). ENCODINGANALOG – not required. May contain information to map this tag to MARC fields 650 and 69x. NORMAL – not required. Can be used to provide the authority form if the subject is being used informally within narrative text, etc. RULES – not required. May be used to specify the descriptive rules followed when forming the subject. SOURCE – not required. The source of the controlled vocabulary, e.g. “lcsh” for Library of Congress Subject Headings. Subelements may contain PCDATA, , , , and . Examples Subjects Kitchin, Sarah J. Bell Bell family. Peace Corps (U.S.) Peace Corps (U.S.)--Philippines Subjects Kitchin, Sarah J. Bell Bell family. Peace Corps (U.S.) Peace Corps (U.S.)--Philippines EAD tag library entry for . This is the EAD 2002 version of this element. If you are looking for the EAD3 element page, please visit the current EADiva.com element page. Search Using the Site Official Library of Congress EAD Links EAD Official Site Introduction to Attributes General Attributes Tabular Attributes Linking Attributes EAD Crosswalks EAD Examples Resources Describing Archives: A Content Standard, Second Edition EAC-CPF Tag Library EAD 2002 Best Practices (LoC) OhioLINK EAD Taskforce pages US Institution Codes List of LANGCODE values Software Archivists’ Toolkit Installing Archivists’ Toolkit on your computer Archon ArchivesSpace The EADiva EAD 2002 Tag Library was created by Ruth Kitchin Tillman. The EAD 2002 Tag Library is copyright © The Society of American Archivists, 2002. Used with permission of the Society of American Archivists. Original design by 801red. Site recoded and redesigned by Ruth Tillman.