Title: AGLS Jurisdiction Controlled Vocabulary
Creator: Andrew Wilson, National Archives of Australia
Creator: Nigel Ward
Date Issued: 2002-02-19
The AGLS Jurisdiction Scheme is a controlled vocabulary for names of administrative jurisdictions in Australia.
The AGLS metadata standard includes a number of elements which can provide information about jurisdictions which are associated with a resource in some way. These are Creator, Publisher, Contributor, Coverage, and Availability. Here we define AGLS Jurisdiction, a controlled list of terms for providing jurisdiction values in AGLS metadata records.
AGLS identifies a jurisdiction from the following list of Australian jurisdictions:
| [Commonwealth of] Australia (AU) | Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK) |
|---|---|
| Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) | The Australian Antarctic Territory plus the subantarctic territories of Heard and McDonald Islands |
| Australian Capital Territory (ACT) | Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909 (NSW) Seat Of Government Surrender Act 1915 (NSW) |
| Indian Ocean Territories (IOT) | Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island |
| New South Wales (NSW) | Constitution Act 1902 (NSW) |
| Norfolk Island (NI) | Norfolk Island Act 1979 (Cth) |
| Northern Territory (NT) | Northern Territory Acceptance Act 1910 (Cth) |
| Queensland (QLD) | Letters Patent erecting the Colony of Queensland 1859 (UK) Letters Patent altering the western boundary of Queensland 1862 (UK) Queensland Coast Islands Act 1879 (Qld) |
| South Australia (SA) | South Australian Act (Foundation Act) 1834 (UK) Letters Patent establishing the Province of South Australia 19 February 1836 (UK) |
| Tasmania (TAS) | Order In Council Separating Van Diemen's Land From New South Wales 1825 (UK) |
| Victoria (VIC) | General Instructions to the Superintendent of Port Phillip, 1839 |
| Western Australia (WA) | Letters Patent re Constitution 25 August 1890 (UK) |
| Other | Any other jurisdiction not named here |
NB: Geographical boundaries of the Australian jurisdictions are contained in the various Acts, Letters Patent, Orders, and Commissions listed above.
Encoding AGLS jurisdiction values is straightforward. Various syntaxes are available, including Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML). The XML examples in this document are indicative only and should not be taken as normative. At the time of writing, syntaxes for expressing AGLS in XML and RDF/XML are under review. Recommendations on encoding AGLS metadata in XML and RDF will be made in the future.
NB. The XML namespace URIs used in the XML example below are fictitious.
<meta name="DC.Coverage.jurisdiction" scheme="AglsJuri" content="Western Australia"> <meta name="DC.Coverage.jurisdiction" scheme="AglsJuri" content="Australia"> <meta name="DC.Creator" scheme="AglsAgent" content="corporateName=National Archives of Australia; jurisdiction=Commonwealth of Australia">
Note: there is no mechanism in HTML for indicating that some values within an encoding scheme emanate from another scheme.
<agls:agls-record xmlns:dc="http://dublincore.org/elements/1.1/" xmlns:agls="http://www.agls.gov.au/agls/1.2" xmlns:AglsAgent="http://agls.gov.au/agent/1.0" xmlns:AglsJuri="http://agls.gov.au/jurisdiction/1.0"> <dc:creator> <AglsAgent:corporateName>National Archives of Australia</AglsAgent:corporateName> <AglsAgent:jurisdiction>AglsJuri:Commonwealth of Australia </AglsAgent:jurisdiction> </dc:creator> </agls:agls-record>