Hello all,
We regularly use <altformavail> to mention the availability of microfilm and
digital surrogates of our collections and we're attempting to improve the
way our EAD finding aids map to MARC. Can anyone share examples of how
they've used type attributes (or any other method) to differentiate between
types of available alternative formats for their collections within one
<altformavail> element? Also, has anyone used 530 subfields in their
encoding of this element and if so, how?
Currently we're thinking about something like this, and although it parses
correctly I'm wondering if it's okay. Could I just repeat the encodinganalog
with an appropriate subfield (if there is one?) inside the <altformavail
type=""> tags?
<altformavail id="a17" encodinganalog="530">
<head>Alternative Forms Available</head>
<altformavail type="microfilm">
<p>The collection is available on 35 mm microfilm reels xxxx-xxxx at
Archives of American Art offices, and through interlibrary loan.</p>
</altformavail>
<altformavail type="digital">
<p>Portions of the collection have been digitized and digital surrogates are
hyperlinked to this finding aid in the Container List below.</p>
</altformavail>
</altformavail>
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Stephanie Ashley
Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
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