Temporal Coverage (O)

Period of time the research data is related to (occurence: 0-n). Could be a date format or plain text. EUDAT Core offers the following possibilities to display temporal information:

  • startDate

  • endDate

  • span (name of time period, e.g. Paleocene)

Allowed values, examples, other constraints

YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD or any other format or level of granularity described in W3CDTF. Years before 0000 must be prefixed with a - sign, e.g., -0054 to indicate 55 BC.

Example

1<temporalCoverages>
2     <temporalCoverage>
3     <startDate format="ISO-8601">2004-03-02</startDate>
4     <endDate format="ISO-8601">2005-06-02</endDate>
5     </temporalCoverage>
6     <temporalCoverage>
7     <span>Paleocene</span>
8     </temporalCoverage>
9</temporalCoverages>