bibliocoverage

bibliocoverage — The spatial or temporal coverage of a document

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

bibliocoverage ::=
(#PCDATA|link|olink|ulink|emphasis|trademark|replaceable|remark|
 subscript|superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|indexterm)*

Attributes

Common attributes

Name	Type	Default
othertemporal	CDATA	None
spatial	Enumeration: dcmibox dcmipoint iso3166 otherspatial tgn	None
otherspatial	CDATA	None
temporal	Enumeration: dcmiperiod othertemporal w3c-dtf	None

Description

The bibliocoverage element satisfies coverage element of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

The Dublin Core defines coverage as “the extent or scope of the content of the resource.” It goes on to say:

Coverage will typically include spatial location (a place name or geographic coordinates), temporal period (a period label, date, or date range) or jurisdiction (such as a named administrative entity).

Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN]) and that, where appropriate, named places or time periods be used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges.

DocBook 4.2 added bibliocoverage, bibliorelation, and bibliosource to make the DocBook meta-information wrappers a complete superset of the Dublin Core.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline. Sometimes suppressed.

This element is used for both spatial and temporal coverage, but the intent is that only one is specified at a time. In other words, on any given instance of the bibliocoverage element, specify either a spatial or a temporal encoding, but not both.

Parents

These elements contain bibliocoverage: appendixinfo, articleinfo, biblioentry, bibliographyinfo, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, blockinfo, bookinfo, chapterinfo, glossaryinfo, indexinfo, objectinfo, partinfo, prefaceinfo, refentryinfo, referenceinfo, refsect1info, refsect2info, refsect3info, refsectioninfo, refsynopsisdivinfo, sect1info, sect2info, sect3info, sect4info, sect5info, sectioninfo, setindexinfo, setinfo, sidebarinfo.

Children

The following elements occur in bibliocoverage: emphasis, indexterm, inlinegraphic, inlinemediaobject, link, olink, remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, ulink.

Attributes

spatial

Identifies the encoding scheme for the supplied spatial identifier. See the Dublin Core Qualifiers for details about the meaning of each encoding.

otherspatial

Used to identify the encoding scheme when spatial is set to otherspatial.

temporal

Identifies the encoding scheme for the supplied temporal identifier. See the Dublin Core Qualifiers for details about the meaning of each encoding.

othertemporal

Used to identify the encoding scheme when temporal is set to othertemporal.