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Maintenance of EAG2012, the Encoded Archival Guide for describing institutions with archival holdings
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[Major revision] Changes to @repositorycode #146

Open kerstarno opened 1 year ago

kerstarno commented 1 year ago

Provide a general summary of the issue in the Title above. Delete the part of the issue template that does not apply depending on whether you describe a change to an existing element / attribute or the addition of a new one.

Creator of issue

State your name, organisation and ways to reach you. Name: Kerstin Arnold Organisation: Archives Portal Europe Foundation, Working Group on Standards Email: standards@archivesportaleurope.net GitHub username (if applicable): @kerstarno

Changes to existing element / attribute

Give the current name of the element / attribute. Include the tag name and the full name. Name: @repositorycode

Change in name

Indicate any changes in name. New name: @repositoryCode

Change in availability

For elements, give an indication of their changed availability within each affected parent element ("1..1" for required but not repeatable, "1 (or another number)..n" for required and repeatable, "0..1" for optional but not repeatable", "0..n" for optional and repeatable). For added attributes, indicate their changed availability with "1" for required or "0" for optional within each affected parent element. Changed availability: @repositoryCode is required within <repositoryId> in EAG 3.0 now

For conversion this means that a default @repositoryCode (e.g. XX-99999999999) would need to be added in order to create a valide file in case @repositorycode does not exist in the EAG2012 file already. There should then also be a comment added saying `

See also #128.