Collection: Title
This property is: Required.
Definition
The name of the collection.
Examples
| Value | Language | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities Data Service | The collection's formal name. The collection is also commonly known as AHDS, which should be entered as an Alternative Title. | |
| Digimap | en | The collection's formal name. |
| JISC Information Environment Service Registry | en-gb | The most common name of the collection. The collection is formally known as the Information Environment (IE) Service Registry, and also commonly known as IESR. Both should be entered as Alternative Titles. In addition the abbreviation JISC should be explained in full using an Alternative Title (Joint Information Systems Committee Information Environment Service Registry). |
Guidelines
The formal, or commonly used, name of the collection.
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.
Enter any alternative name, sub-title, or any form of the title, that is commonly used as a substitute for the main title, as an Alternative Title. 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
Not repeatable: there may be only one value for this property. Enter the value into the text box.