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MODS Element name: <subject><geographicCode>

Short definition: A geographic area code associated with a resource.

Input guidelines: A geographic code that represents the same entity as a term in the Geographic Term form field. Enter appropriate Alpha-3 code from the directory of ISO-3166 standard country codes.

Definition

A geographic area code associated with a resource.

DAMS input form fields

(Geographic Code)

DAMS form field nameform field typerequiredMODS elementCollections Portal displaynotes
Subject - Geographic Codetext fieldnosubject/geographicCodeGeographic CodeEnter appropriate Alpha-3 code from the directory of ISO-3166 standard country codes.

MODS Element description

Element <subject>

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/subject.html

Guidelines for use

<subject> is a container element that contains subelements relating to the subject aspect of the resource.

Attributes

No attributes are currently implemented in the DAMS for <subject> when used with the <geographicCode> subelement.

Subelements

The following subelements of <subject> are used in the DAMS:

  • geographicCode
  • (temporal)
  • (topic)
  • (geographic)
  • (hierarchicalGeographic)
  • (cartographics)

Subelement <subject><geographicCode>

Guidelines for use

Enter appropriate Alpha-3 code from the ISO-3166 standard country codes.

Attributes

Attribute name

Details

XPath syntax examples

authority

value:

  • iso3166
subject/geographicCode[@authority="iso3166"]

Subelements

No subelements for <geographicCode>.

XML Examples

Code Block
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<subject>
	<geographicCode authority="iso3166">GRL</geographicCode> 
</subject>

Mappings

Dublin Core

Currently, no data from <geographicCode> subelements is mapped to DC elements.

MARC 21

See http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-mapping.html. The following specific guidelines apply for the DAMS:

MARC 21 fieldMapping conditionMODS elementNotes
043$a
N/A

Do not map from MARC subfield 043$a.

MARC codes for geographic area are not implemented in the DAMS MODS.

043$c
subject/geographicCode

Data transformation required.

Map the Alpha-2 code from MARC subfield 043$c to the corresponding Alpha-3 code from the directory of ISO-3166 standard country codes.

Solr

In general, all MODS metadata is imported into the DAMS Solr server upon ingest. The ingest process generates Solr fields typically named according to the following schema:

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