Collection: Temporal
This property is: Optional.
Definition
The temporal coverage of the intellectual content of the items in the collection.
Examples
| Value | Explanation |
|---|---|
| 1601/1700 | The Sixteenth Century Journal collection in JSTOR covers the 16th century. |
| 1988/1988 | The intellectual coverage of the collection is 1988 only. |
| 1946/ | The intellectual coverage of the ONS Time Series Data collection (time Series data) is from 1946 inclusive onwards. |
| 2000-02/2000-06 | The collection's intellectual coverage is from February 2000 to June 2000 inclusive. |
| 2005-03-01/2000-03-31 | The collection covers 1 March 2005 to 31 March 2005 inclusive. |
| 1791/1799 | The Statistical Accounts of Scotland collection covers 1791 to 1799 inclusive and 1834 to 1845 inclusive. |
| 1834/1845 |
Guidelines
The temporal characteristics of the intellectual content of the collection. Temporal characteristics include those aspects of time that relate to the intellectual content of the collection and not its lifecycle.
Enter a date range as a value for this property: two dates separated by a forward-slash ("/"). Each date is defined in a profile of ISO 8601, known as the W3CDTF format, and follows the "YYYY-MM-DD" format. If the full date is unknown, month and year ("YYYY-MM") or just year ("YYYY") may be used. Null dates may be used for either date to indicate open-ended date ranges.
Centuries and decades start at year 1, and end at year 0. For example, the 19th century would be entered as 1801/1900. The 1960s would be entered as 1961/1970. Note that BC/BCE dates cannot currently be recorded.
Temporal versus Contents Date Range
Another property is used to describe the range of dates of creation of the individual items in the collection: Contents Date Range.
An example of the difference between the properties might include a collection describing some aspect of the 19th century, but with the items themselves created in 2003. In that case, the value for Temporal would be 1801/1900 and the Contents Date Range value would be 2003/2003. Another example is the Sixteenth Century Journal collection from JSTOR. The journal covers 16th century history and individual journals are available in JSTOR from 1970 to 2000 inclusive. Therefore the value for Temporal is 1601/1700 and that for Contents Date Range is 1970/2000.
It is possible that the value for Contents Date Range and Temporal might have the same value. For example, if a digital satellite image file is created at the same time as the image of the earth is taken, then the individual item is created at the same time as its intellectual content.
If the collection is a catalogue, index or hierarchical finding aid, then the value for Temporal describes the intellectual content of the collection the catalogue describes (not the intellectual content of the catalogue, index or hierarchical finding aid records themselves). For example, the Copac collection is a catalogue. Temporal describes the intellectual content of the books, manuscripts etc described in Copac, which is not reliably known; therefore no value is entered. Contents Date Range should be used to describe the intellectual content of the catalogue records themselves, which for Copac is from 1100 onwards (the first catalogue records in Copac were created around 1100).
References
- [W3CDTF] http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
Occurrence
Repeatable: there may be multiple values for this property. Enter each value into its own text box.