naa:PlaceName

Locations, regions or geographical areas covered by and/or discussed in the content of the record.

This element enables searches to be conducted on records covering nominated locations, regions or geographical areas and facilitates management of records dealing with the same locations, regions or geographical areas.

It may provide valuable information about the content of the record that is additional to that provided by elements M32 TITLE, M37 SUBJECT, M40 DESCRIPTION and M50 FUNCTION.

Optional

Yes

Yes

A default value may be specified by the agency.

vers:schemeCDATA

(Optional) A reference to the scheme that controls the values of this element. Would normally only be present if there is a published scheme that can be referred to by a viewer.

Will often be indicated by the standard place name of the location being referred to.

Some agencies use mechanisms such as digraphs, trigraphs or tetragraphs to refer to regions and locations, and these indicators are also acceptable.