Collection: Alternative Title

This property is: Optional.

Definition

An alternative name, or sub-title of the collection.

Examples

Examples of values for this property, their language, and an explanation of the reasoning for the values.
Value Language Explanation
AHDS The name by which the collection is commonly known. The collection's formal name (Arts and Humanities Data Service) has used for the Title.
Office for National Statistics Time Series Data en Explanation of the abbreviation ONS used in the Title of the ONS Time Series Data collection.
Information Environment (IE) Service Registry en-gb

The collection's common name (JISC Information Environment Service Registry) has been entered for the Title.

Three Alternative Titles have been included. The first value is the collection's formal name. The second value is another name by which the collection is commonly known. The third value is an explanation of the abbreviation, JISC, used in the Title.

IESR en-gb
Joint Information Systems Committee Information Environment Service Registry en-gb
British Library's Electronic Table of Contents en-gb The sub-title of the Zetoc collection.

Guidelines

Any alternative name, sub-title, or any form of the title, that is commonly used as a substitute for the main title.

Preserve the original wording, order and spelling. Do not introduce additional spaces, for instance CrossFire not Cross Fire. Personal names may be entered as: Surname/family name, Forename; or Forename Surname/family name.

Explain title abbreviations in full using Alternative Title. For example: ONS Time Series Data (Title); Office for National Statistics Time Series Data (Alternative Title). For collections with a non-English title, enter the native language title as the Title; include the language of the title using a language attribute. Enter the translation or transliteration as an Alternative Title. Please transliterate titles written in non-Roman scripts (for example, Greek, Russian, Hebrew) into ASCII characters using a recognisable transliteration scheme (for example, Beta encoding for Greek).

Enter the information as a single line of unstructured text. Do not use (X)HTML tags. Formatting tags, such as italics, must not be included. Enclose normally italicised words within single quotes. Some non-keyboard characters may be included as SGML character entities; no others are available.

Language

The language of the property may be indicated. This is optional. See how to encode language values for more information.

Occurrence

Repeatable: there may be multiple values for this property. Enter each value into its own text box.