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SITE LONGITUDE - Humanities
- Field label
- SITE LONGITUDE
- Field mnemonic
- ZLNG
- Field name
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- Site Longitude
- Longitude du site
- Field definition
- This field identifies the longitude at which the site is located.
- Heading
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE FIELDS
- Comments
- NOTE: This field has NOT been updated as part of the May 2010 Data Dictionary update. Priority for the Data Dictionary update was given to those fields that are required or strongly recommended for Artefacts Canada contribution. The Entry Rules for this field will be updated at a later date.
- Entry rules
- Enter the longitude or the start longitude in the format DDDMMSS space direction space "?" or "C", where the direction is written as "W" or "E" and where the "C" stands for circa and the "?" for uncertain or zero-filled data. Enter a range in longitude in the format DDDMMSS space direction semicolon space DDDMMSS space direction. The field should be zero-filled to seven digits for range searching. A semicolon and a space should separate multiple entries.
- Data type
- integer
- Examples
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- 1105000 W C
- 0905350 W ?
- 1100000 W
- 1105350 W
- 1105352 W
- 1105300 O
- 1105000 O C
- 0905350 O ?
- 1100000 O
- 1105350 O
- 1105352 O
- Discipline
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- Sites
- Source
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- Ethnology Task Force
- Field label (French)
- LONGITUDE DU SITE
- Field mnemonic (French)
- LONZ
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