ANSI/NISO Z39.102-2017

8 ANSI/NISO Z39.102-2017 STS (Version 1.0) • 8.2 Attributes

8.2.35 @date-type Type of Date

Event in the lifecycle of a standard that this date is marking, for example, the date the standards document was published. These values are not standard lifecycle events, such as amended.

In elements <date> and <release-date>, this attribute may be used if the element is used.
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters. Names a date referring to a single instance of a specific published edition of a standard (single publication of a dated designation). In other words, this names a date in the lifecycle of this standard rather than a type of standard from the standards lifecycle (such as Addenda).
In element <meta-date>, this attribute may be used if the element is used.
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters. Names, for example, a lifecycle stage that should not be expressed with <release-date> or a circumstance that is unique to a particular standards organization, for example, Date of Issuance for ASME or Date of ratification for CEN-CENELEC. There are no suggested values for this attribute. Best Practice for new documents is to use this @date-type attribute instead of the ISO-specific @type attribute to record this date-typing information.
In element <pub-date>, this attribute may be used if the element is used.
Value Meaning
Text, numbers, or special characters. The meaning and values for @date-type for this element were taken directly from JATS and are more appropriate to journal articles than to standards. Best Practice for NISO STS is to use the element <release-date> to indicate publication dates.