EAD Tag Library for Version 1.0

EAD Elements: <daodesc> Digital Archival Object Description

Description:

Information about the contents, usage, or source of a Digital Archival Object <dao> or Digital Archival Object Group <daogrp>. When the <unittitle> or other descriptive information in a Component <c> is sufficient to identify one or more digital objects, the <daodesc> caption is not necessary.

See also related elements <dao>, <daogrp>, and <daoloc>.

May contain:

address, blockquote, chronlist, head, list, note, p, table

May occur within:

dao, daogrp, daoloc

Attributes:

ALTRENDER	#IMPLIED, CDATA
AUDIENCE	#IMPLIED, external, internal
ID	#IMPLIED, ID

Example:

<daogrp>
<daodesc>
<head>Image Sampler</head>
<p>The following eight photographs illustrate the types of images
available in this collection.</p></daodesc>
<daoloc show="embed" actuate="auto" entityref="misc-naacp01">
<daodesc><p>Ella Baker, head-and-shoulders portrait,
between 1942 and 1946 (LOT 13074, no. 19) (Repro. no. : LC- USZ62-110575)</p></daodesc></daoloc>
[...]
<daoloc show="embed" actuate="auto" entityref="misc-naacp08">
<daodesc><p>More wings for hawkmen at Tuskegee Army Flying
School, between 1941 and 1945. (LOT 13104, no. 38)</p></daodesc>
</daoloc>
</daogrp>

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