Examples of corporate entities include names of associations, institutions, business firms, non-profit enterprises, governments, government agencies, projects, programs, religious bodies, churches, conferences, athletic contests, exhibitions, expeditions, fairs, and ships. Usually, secondary name parts are encoded in corpName sub-elements. The name of the list from which a controlled value is taken may be recorded using the auth attribute.
This element is modelled on an element in the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard.
<elementSpec ident="corpName" module="MEI.namesdates">
<desc>(corporate name) – Identifies an organization or group of people that acts as a single
entity.</desc>
<classes>
<memberOf key="att.common"/>
<memberOf key="att.bibl"/>
<memberOf key="att.edit"/>
<memberOf key="att.facsimile"/>
<memberOf key="att.lang"/>
<memberOf key="att.name"/>
<memberOf key="model.nameLike.agent"/>
</classes>
<content>
<rng:zeroOrMore>
<rng:choice>
<rng:text/>
<rng:ref name="model.textPhraseLike"/>
<rng:ref name="model.editLike"/>
<rng:ref name="model.transcriptionLike"/>
</rng:choice>
</rng:zeroOrMore>
</content>
<remarks>
<p>Examples of corporate entities include names of associations, institutions, business
firms,
non-profit enterprises, governments, government agencies, projects, programs, religious
bodies, churches, conferences, athletic contests, exhibitions, expeditions, fairs,
and
ships. Usually, secondary name parts are encoded in <gi scheme="MEI">corpName</gi>
sub-elements. The name of the list from which a controlled value is taken may be recorded
using the <att>auth</att> attribute.</p>
</remarks>
<remarks>
<p>This element is modelled on an element in the Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
standard.</p>
</remarks>
</elementSpec>