Abstract

REPEATABLE

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)

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

Subelements

No subelements for <geographicCode>.

XML Examples

<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#subject. The following specific guidelines apply for the DAMS:

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:

mods_value*_suffix

where

• value* can be one or multiple element, subelement or attribute names that allow to distinguish Solr fields
• suffix is s, t, ss, ms or mt, which refers to the type of data stored in a Solr field and how it is indexed. The Solr index usually contains multiple copies of each field with the same content, distinguished by their suffix.

The following table shows mappings between MODS elements and Solr fields for those fields that are currently used for display in the Collections portal, or where additional processing happens in Islandora or during the publishing process. Suffixes are ignored, unless relevant for the mapping.