Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Version 2002

EAD Elements

<originalsloc> Location of Originals

Description:

Information about the existence, location, availability, and/or the destruction of originals where the unit described consists of copies.

Do not confuse <originalsloc> with Alternative Form Available <altformavail>, which is used to encode information about copies of the material being described.

The <originalsloc> element is comparable to ISAD(G) data element 3.5.1 and MARC field 535.

May contain:

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

May occur within:

archdesc, archdescgrp, c, c01, c02, c03, c04, c05, c06, c07, c08, c09, c10, c11, c12, descgrp, originalsloc

Attributes:

Examples:

    1.
        <c01 level="file">
            <did>
                <unittitle>Dream diary, </unittitle>
                <unitdate normal="1947/1948>1947-48</unitdate>
            </did>
            <originalsloc>
                <p>File contains photocopies of original still held by the donor.</p>
            </originalsloc>
        </c01>

    2.
        <c01 level="series">
            <did>[...]</did>
            <originalsloc>
                <p>Originals destroyed after microfilming, 1981.</p>
            </originalsloc>
        </c01>
         
    3.
        <c03 level="file">
            <did>[...]</did>
            <originalsloc>
                <p>Original glass plate negatives are held by the Bailly family,
                Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.</p>
            </originalsloc>
        </c03>