Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Version 2002

EAD Elements

<daodesc> Digital Archival Object Description

Description:

Information about the contents, usage, or source of a Digital Archival Object <dao> or Digital Archival Object Group <daogrp>. When the <unittitle> or other descriptive information in a Component <c> is sufficient to identify one or more digital objects, the <daodesc> caption is not necessary.

See also related elements <dao>, <daogrp>, and <daoloc>.

May contain:

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

May occur within:

dao, daogrp, daoloc

Attributes:

Example:

<c02 level="file">
    <did>
        <unittitle>Photographs of John Smith and family members</unittitle>
        <unitdate type="inclusive" normal="1895/1928">1895-1928</unitdate>
        <daogrp linktype="extended">
            <daodesc>
                <p>Sample digitized image from this file: John Smith graduation portrait,
                <date normal="18950528">28 May 1895</date>.</p>
            </daodesc>
            <resource linktype="resource" label="start"/>
            <daoloc entityref="f0042_1tmb" linktype="locator" label="thumb"/>
            <daoloc entityref="f0042_1ref" linktype="locator" label="reference"/>
            <arc linktype="arc" show="embed" actuate="onload" from="start" to="thumb"/>
            <arc linktype="arc" show="new" actuate="onrequest" from="thumb" to="reference"/>
        </daogrp>
    </did>
</c02>