Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Version 2002

EAD Elements

<langmaterial> Language of the Material

Description:

A prose statement enumerating the language(s) of the archival materials found in the unit being described.

Language of the material may also be recorded in coded form in the LANGCODE attribute in the <language> subelement using the ISO 639-2b three-letter language codes.

Do not confuse with the Language Usage <langusage> element which specifies the language(s) in which the finding aid is written. See also the description for the <language> element.

The <langmaterial> element is comparable to the ISAD(G) data element 3.4.3 and MARC field 546.

May contain:

#PCDATA, abbr, archref, bibref, emph, expan, extptr, extref, language, lb, linkgrp, ptr, ref, title

May occur within:

archref, did

Attributes:

Examples:

1.
    <c01 level="series">
        <did>
            <unittitle>Correspondence, </unittitle>
            <unitdate type="inclusive">1854-1902. </unitdate>
            <physdesc>4 boxes</physdesc>
                <langmaterial>Correspondence in <language>French, </language>
                <language>German, </language>and <language>English.</language>
                </langmaterial>
        </did>
    </c01>

2.
    <eadheader langencoding="iso639-2b">[...]</eadheader>
        <archdesc level="fonds">
            <did> . . .
                <langmaterial>Texte <language langcode="ara">arabe</language>
                et traduction <language langcode="fre">fran&ccedil;aise</language>
                par Lacroix fils
                </langmaterial>
            </did> . . .
        </archdesc> 

3.
    <did>
        <unitid label="Reference Code">DL 42</unitid>
        <unittitle label="Title">Duchy of Lancaster: Cartularies, Enrolments, Surveys and
        other Miscellaneous Books</unittitle>
        <unitdate label="Creation Dates" type="inclusive">13th Century -1894</unitdate>
        <langmaterial label="Language(s)">
            <language langcode="eng">English</language>,
            <language langcode="fre">French</language> and
            <language langcode="lat">Latin</language>
        </langmaterial>
    </did>