. DACS Use DACS Section 2.4, Date. Required. (DACS 2013, pp.24-27) Examples <did> <head>Overview</head> ... <unittitle label="Title">Letters of Sarah J. Bell Kitchin <unitdate normal="1963/1985">1963 to 1985</unitdate></unittitle> </did> <did> <head>Overview</head> ... <unittitle label="Title">Letters of Sarah J. Bell Kitchin <unitdate normal="1963/1985">1963 to 1985</unitdate></unittitle> </did> <c level="series"> <did> <unitid>SJB1</unitid> <unittitle>Correspondence</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1963/1985" datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1963 to 1985</unitdate> </did> <c level="series"> <did> <unitid>SJB1</unitid> <unittitle>Correspondence</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1963/1985" datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1963 to 1985</unitdate> </did> EAD tag library entry for <unitdate>. 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.

Date of a Unit | 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 Date of a Unit is used to encode the creation year, month, or day of the described materials. It may in the form of text or numbers and either a simple date or range. It is found within and its subelements and is only used to encode creation or relevant dates of described materials. Other types of dates should be encoded within . It is comparable to ISAD(G) element 3.1.3, and MARC fields 245 subfield f for inclusive dates, 245 subfield g for bulk dates, or 260 subfield c. may be used within , , , , , , , ,

, , , . 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. CALENDAR – not required. Default value is “gregorian.” CERTAINTY – not required. May be used to indicate degree of precision used in dating—”circa,” “approximately,” “after,” etc. DATECHAR – not required. May be used to characterize the nature of the dates, such as “creation” or “modification.” ENCODINGANALOG – not required. May contain information to map this tag to a particular element in another schema. ERA – not required. May be used to indicate the era in which the date falls. Default values is “ce” for “Common” or “Christian” era. LABEL – not required. This can be used when a meaningful display label for an element can’t be derived by the stylesheet from its name. It is available in all subelements. NORMAL – not required. A standard numeric form of the date used for machine reading and comparison, i.e. YYYYMMDD, YYYY/YYYY, etc. Should particularly be used if the text within the element is not written out as YYYMMDD. TYPE – not required. May be used to specify whether the date is “bulk” or “inclusive.” Subelements may contain PCDATA, , , , , , , , , , and . DACS Use DACS Section 2.4, Date. Required. (DACS 2013, pp.24-27) Examples <did> <head>Overview</head> ... <unittitle label="Title">Letters of Sarah J. Bell Kitchin <unitdate normal="1963/1985">1963 to 1985</unitdate></unittitle> </did> <did> <head>Overview</head> ... <unittitle label="Title">Letters of Sarah J. Bell Kitchin <unitdate normal="1963/1985">1963 to 1985</unitdate></unittitle> </did> <c level="series"> <did> <unitid>SJB1</unitid> <unittitle>Correspondence</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1963/1985" datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1963 to 1985</unitdate> </did> <c level="series"> <did> <unitid>SJB1</unitid> <unittitle>Correspondence</unittitle> <unitdate normal="1963/1985" datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1963 to 1985</unitdate> </did> EAD tag library entry for <unitdate>. 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.