naa:PeriodName

The time period covered by and/or discussed in the content of the record.

This element enables searches to be conducted on records covering nominated time periods or date ranges and facilitates management of records dealing with the same time periods or date ranges.

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.

Both standard period names (e.g. ‘Victorian') and standard dates/date ranges (as described in section 14) should be used.