Pbcoredescription

Elements defined

pbcoreDescription

pbcoreDescription is an element that uses free-form text or a narrative to report general notes, abstracts, or summaries about the intellectual content of an asset. The information may be in the form of an individual program description, anecdotal interpretations, or brief content reviews. The description may also consist of outlines, lists, bullet points, rundowns, edit decision lists, indexes, or tables of content.

Best Practice: pbcoreDescription can be repeated, so that multiple descriptions can be provided. The attribute @descriptionType can be used to identify the type of description. The @source attribute can be used to identify the source of a description, e.g. @source=’NOVA website’.

Usage: required, repeatable

Attributes

descriptionType: optional | The descriptionType attribute is used to indicate the type of description being assigned to the element, such as ‘abstract,’ ‘summary,’ or ‘physical description.’ Can be used as an attribute of the pbcoreDescription element.
descriptionTypeSource: optional | The descriptionTypeSource attribute provides the name of the authority used to declare data value of the attribute descriptionType. Can be used as an attribute of the pbcoreDescription element.
descriptionTypeRef: optional | The descriptionTypeRef attribute is used to supply a source’s URI for the value of the attribute descriptionType. Can be used as an attribute of the pbcoreDescription element.
descriptionTypeVersion: optional | The descriptionTypeVersion attribute identifies any version information about the authority or convention used to express data of the attribute descriptionType. Can be used as an attribute of the pbcoreDescription element.
descriptionTypeAnnotation: optional | The descriptionTypeAnnotation attribute includes narrative information intended to clarify the nature of data used in the element. Can be used as an attribute of the pbcoreDescription element.
segmentType: optional | The segmentType attribute is used to define the type of content contained in a segment. Can be used as an attribute of the pbcoreDescription element.
segmentTypeSource: optional | The segmentTypeSource attribute provides the name of the authority used to declare data value of the attribute segmentType. Can be used as an attribute of the pbcoreDescription element.
segmentTypeRef: optional | The segmentTypeRef attribute is used to supply a source’s URI for the value of the attribute segmentType. Can be used as an attribute of the pbcoreDescription element.
segmentTypeVersion: optional | The segmentTypeVersion attribute identifies any version information about the authority or convention used to express data of the attribute segmentType. Can be used as an attribute of the pbcoreDescription element.
segmentTypeAnnotation: optional | The segmentTypeAnnotation attribute includes narrative information intended to clarify the nature of data used in the attribute segmentType. Can be used as an attribute of the pbcoreDescription element.
startTime: optional | The startTime attribute combines with the endTime attribute to define a specific media segment within a broader timeline of an asset and/or instantiation. Can be used as an attribute of the following elements - contributor, coverage, creator, instantiationRights, pbcoreDescription, pbcoreGenre, pbcoreInstantiation, pbcoreInstantiationDocument, pbcorePart, pbcoreRightsSummary, pbcoreSubject, pbcoreTitle, publisher.
endTime: optional | The endTime attribute combines with a similar value in the startTime attribute to define a specific media segment within a broader timeline of an asset and/or instantiation. Can be used as an attribute of the following elements - contributor, coverage, creator, instantiationRights, pbcoreDescription, pbcoreGenre, pbcoreInstantiation, pbcoreInstantiationDocument, pbcorePart, pbcoreRightsSummary, pbcoreSubject, pbcoreTitle, publisher.
timeAnnotation: optional | The timeAnnotation attribute includes narrative information intended to clarify the nature of data used in the element. Can be used as an attribute of the following elements - contributor, coverage, creator, instantiationRights, pbcoreDescription, pbcoreGenre, pbcoreInstantiation, pbcoreInstantiationDocument, pbcorePart, pbcoreRightsSummary, pbcoreSubject, pbcoreTitle, publisher.
source: optional | The source attribute provides the name of the authority used to declare the value of the element. Required attribute for pbcoreIdentifier and instantiationIdentifier elements. Can be used as an attribute of any element.
ref: optional | The ref attribute is used to supply a source’s URI for the value of the element. Can be used as an attribute of any element.
version: optional | The version attribute identifies any version information about the authority or convention used to express data of this element. Can be used as an attribute of any element.
annotation: optional | The annotation attribute includes narrative information intended to clarify the nature of data used in the element. Can be used as an attribute of any element.

Subelements

This element does not have any subelements.

Controlled Vocabularies

PBCore's @descriptionType Vocabulary for the descriptionType attribute

Example

  
   <pbcoreDescription descriptionType="Version">HV (home video) Master Letterbox</pbcoreDescription>

  
   <pbcoreDescription descriptionType="Program" descriptionTypeSource="PBCore descriptionType Controlled Vocabulary" descriptionTypeRef="http://pbcore.org/pbcore-controlled-vocabularies/descriptiontype-vocabulary/#Program" source="American Experience website">In the summer of 1936, nine working class young men from the University of Washington took the rowing world and the nation by a storm when they captured the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Berlin. These sons of loggers, shipyard workers and farmers overcame tremendous hardships—psychological, physical and economic—to beat not only the Ivy League teams of the East Coast but also Adolf Hitler's elite German rowers. Featuring interviews with Brown, historians and surviving children of the 1936 Washington team, The Boys of ’36 recounts their unexpected victory and the obstacles they overcame to achieve it, giving hope to a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Great Depression.</pbcoreDescription>

  
  <pbcoreDescription descriptionType="Shot List" startTime="00:00:34" endTime="00:06:22">
    00:00:34  ship at dock/EWS
    00:01:01  Crew on deck/WS
    00:01:43  Ship bow tied to pier/WS
    00:02:02  Ship ext./observation deck/MS
    00:02:24  ship ext. Maurice Ewing sign/MS
    00:02:39  Ship ext./anchor/MS
    00:03:05  Ship ext./ stern/WS
    00:04:02  Maurice Ewing New York sign on stern/CU
    00:04:22  Truck L past length of ship/WS
    00:05:17  Ian on deck/talking to man/MS/CU
    00:05:35  Crew setting up on bow/WS
    00:06:00  Men on captain's deck/MS/Ian on deck/MS</pbcoreDescription>