An explanation of factors
contained in the cited resource or publicly available information that the
producing organization assesses may affect the quality or reliability of the
information in the specific cited resource. Factors may include, but are not
necessarily limited to, completeness, precision or technical quality, context,
or age/currency of the information. In the case of human sources, this
explanation may include information that describes the level of access, past
reporting record, or potential biases (e.g., political, personal, professional,
or religious affiliations). If applicable, data associated with this concept
should be classification marked and appropriate rules for displaying the marking
or for influencing the value or display of the Citation Security Mark should
be
followed.
This attribute is only a placeholder so that all the ISM attributes are not shown
in the schemaGuide for every element. If you refer to the documentation of the
attribute group it will say what attributes should be here.
Source
<xsd:element name="SourceDescriptor" type="src:SourceDescriptorType"><xsd:annotation><xsd:documentation xml:lang="en"><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ism:ownerProducer="USA" ism:classification="U">An explanation of factors contained in the cited resource or publicly available information that the producing organization assesses may affect the quality or reliability of the information in the specific cited resource. Factors may include, but are not necessarily limited to, completeness, precision or technical quality, context, or age/currency of the information. In the case of human sources, this explanation may include information that describes the level of access, past reporting record, or potential biases (e.g., political, personal, professional, or religious affiliations). If applicable, data associated with this concept should be classification marked and appropriate rules for displaying the marking or for influencing the value or display of the Citation Security Mark should be followed.</p></xsd:documentation></xsd:annotation></xsd:element>
Schema location
SRC-XML.xsd Copy and paste this link to your file browser, clicking the link MAY open in the browser. Opening in an XML aware editor is best.
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