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M55 DATE/TIME CREATED

XML Element Name

naa:DateTimeCreated

Definition

The date and time at which a record is sent, received, or otherwise created, by a corporate entity, such as an agency, in the course of its business.

Purpose

This element provides information on when the physical or logical entity which is/will be a record comes into being. It enables a search to be restricted to before, after or between particular dates of creation.

Creation is a fundamental date in the life of a record. Creation date/time is a natural search point for users.

Obligation

Mandatory

Repeatable

No

NAA Metadata

Yes

Default Value

The system date/time at the time of creation.

Attributes

Attribute Name/Type

Definition

 

vers:schemeCDATA

(Optional) A reference to the scheme that controls the values of this element. Must be ‘ISO 8061’ if present.

Comments

It is important to distinguish between the Date/Time Transacted, Created, and Registered. The Date/Time Transacted is when the event occurred. The Date/Time Created is when the record was created of the event, and the Date/Time Registered is when the record was registered into a recordkeeping system. For example, the Transacted time of a meeting is when the meeting was held, the Created time is when the minutes were written, and Registered time is when the minutes were entered into the recordkeeping system.

The time should be specified to (at least) the minute.

This element shall be used in conjunction with element M12 AGENT, subelement M13 Agent Type, Assigned Value ‘Record Creator’, with element M65 RECORD IDENTIFIER and with element M99 VEO IDENTIFIER.

In many cases the date and time of creation may be identical to the date and time of transaction (see subelement M56 DATE/TIME TRANSACTED) or registration (see subelement M57 DATE/TIME REGISTERED).

In many cases the date and time of creation may be identical to the date and time of the VERS record creation given in M8 OBJECT CREATION DATE.

A date/time must be expressed in the format defined in section 14 (but cannot be a date range).

Related Elements

M8 Object Creation Date
M12 Agent
M65 Record Identifier M99 VEO Identifier

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