EAD Tag Library for Version 1.0

EAD Elements: <arrangement> Arrangement

Description:

Information on the filing sequence of the described materials, such as the principle characteristics of the internal structure, or the physical or logical ordering of materials. Includes alphabetical, chronological, geographical, office of origin, and other schemes. Identifying the arrangement pattern may enhance retrieval by researchers.

The <arrangement> element may occur within <archdesc> or as a subelement of <scopecontent>. Use the <organization> element to designate the manner in which described materials have been divided into smaller units, e.g., series.

The <arrangement> element is comparable to ISAD(G) element 3.3.4 and MARC field 351, subfield b.

May contain:

address, arrangement, blockquote, chronlist, head, list, note, p, table

May occur within:

archdesc, archdescgrp, arrangement, c, c01, c02, c03, c04, c05, c06, c07, c08, c09, c10, c11, c12, dentry, scopecontent

Attributes:

ALTRENDER	#IMPLIED, CDATA
AUDIENCE	#IMPLIED, external, internal
ENCODINGANALOG	#IMPLIED, CDATA
ID	#IMPLIED, ID

Example:

<dsc level="combined">
<c01 level="series">
<did>[...]</did>
<scopecontent>[...]</scopecontent>
<arrangement><p>Materials in this series are arranged alphabetically, based
on the original order imposed by the creator of the collection. A small chronological
file at the end of the series was created during processing and includes important items
that were not an apparent part of the original order of the series when the collection was
accessioned.</p> </arrangement>
<c02 level="file"><did>[...]</did></c02>
[other possible elements and text... ]
</c01>
</dsc>

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