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Site Province (Site Data)

Field to be used with an authority listField used for archaeology collections (object data and site data)Société des musées québécois Info-Muse database field

Definition:

  • This field contains the name of the province where the site is located.

Observations:

  1. This field may also contain the name of a Canadian territory, an American state, a British county, a Swiss canton, a French department, a Japanese prefecture or any other equivalent of the term "province."
    Example

     Site CountryMexico
    Site Province Yucatan
  2. For better search results in your database, avoid a large variety of terms; draw up an authority list and add province names as necessary. See documentation tip No. 2 (in French only) for bibliographic references.
  3. This field is used in conjunction with the Site Country field.

Entry rules:

  1. Enter the full name of the province; do not use abbreviations.
    Example

    Site Province Quebec
     and not 
     Site ProvinceQc
  2. If the name of the site province has changed, first enter its current name, followed by a comma and a space, then the name that applied at the time the site was occupied.
    Example

     Site Country Canada
    Site ProvinceNunavut, Northwest Territories
  3. This field may not contain more than one entry.

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