Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Version 2002

EAD Elements

<publisher> Publisher

Description:

When used in the <publicationstmt> portion of <eadheader> and in the <titlepage> element in <frontmatter>, the <publisher> is the name of the party responsible for issuing or distributing the encoded finding aid. Often this party is the same corporate body identified in the <repository> element in the finding aid. When used in the <imprint> section of a Bibliographic Reference <bibref>, the <publisher> is the name of the party issuing a monograph or other bibliographic work cited in the finding aid.

May contain:

#PCDATA, emph, extptr, lb, ptr

May occur within:

imprint, publicationstmt, titlepage

Attributes:

Examples:

    1.
        <filedesc>
            <titlestmt>[...]</titlestmt>
            <publicationstmt>
                <date>1995</date>
                <publisher>Prints &amp; Photographs Division<lb/>Library of Congress</publisher>
                <address><addressline>Washington, D.C. 20540</addressline></address>
            </publicationstmt>
        </filedesc>

    2.
        <bibliography>
            <bibref>
                <persname role="author">Kinder, Dolores.</persname>
                <title >Once Upon a Lullaby.</title>
                <imprint><geogname>New York: </geogname>
                <publisher>Wells &amp; Sons, </publisher>
                <date type="publication">1931</date></imprint>
            </bibref>
        </bibliography>