EAD Tag Library for Version 1.0

EAD Elements: <language> Language

Description:

A subelement of <langusage> within the <profiledesc> portion of the <eadheader> that specifies the language or communication system in which the finding aid is written. For bilingual or multilingual finding aids, either identify each language in a separate <language> element, or mention only the predominant language.

Do not confuse with the LANGMATERIAL attribute, which identifies the language of the materials being described and is available with <archdesc> and <c> elements. Do not confuse with the LANGENCODING attribute, which specifies that ISO 639-2 codes are used in the LANGMATERIAL attribute. EAD has no specific element to designate a textual statement about the language of the materials being described; but such information can, for example, be part of a paragraph in <scopecontent>.

May contain:

#PCDATA, emph, extptr, lb, ptr

May occur within:

langusage

Attributes:

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

Example:

<eadheader findaidstatus="edited-full-draft" langencoding="ISO 639-2">
<eadid>[...]</eadid>
<filedesc>[...]</filedesc>
<profiledesc>
<creation>[...]</creation>
<langusage>Bi-lingual finding aid written in
<language>French</language> and
<language>English.</language>
</langusage></profiledesc>
<revisiondesc>[...]</revisiondesc>
</eadheader>

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