NORTH/SOUTH DIRECTION - Humanities
- Field label
- NORTH/SOUTH DIRECTION
- Field mnemonic
- NSD
- Field name
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- North/South Direction
- Direction nord ou sud
- Field definition
- This field contains the north or south direction from the east/west baseline for the North/South Minimum and North/South Maximum Measurement fields.
- 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 "north" or "south" without abbreviation.
- Cataloguers rules
- See also, North/South Minimum Measurement (NSMN), North/South Maximum Measurement (NSMX) and North/South Units (NSU).
- Data type
- alpha-numeric string
- Examples
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- south
- north
- nord
- sud
- Discipline
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- Archaeology
- Source
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- Archaeology (Specimens) Task Force
- Field label (French)
- DIRECTION NORD OU SUD
- Field mnemonic (French)
- DNS
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