country

Country

An abbreviation or code that names a country. This is information that can be used to identify a country that granted a patent or to provide a machine-comparable form of the name of a country as an addition to the content of the <country> element.

Remarks

Best Practice: Although this attribute is optional and open to any value, for best practice, the country code should be provided whenever it is known, and the ISO 3166-1 2-letter alphabetic codes should be used, for example:
US
United States
GB
United Kingdom
CA
Canada
The complete list is available from ISO, in HTML, text-file, and XML-file versions at the following location: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search and choose the county code button.
On the element <country>, archives and publishers can use this attribute to regularize the input for searching without altering the element content, for example, placing a country code in the attribute when the <country> element content is fully spelled out or uses a non-standard country abbreviation.

Used on Elements: <country>, <funding-source>, <patent>

ValueMeaning
Text, numbers, or special charactersAn abbreviation for a country, typically using the ISO 3166-1 two-letter alphabetic codes, for example, “US” for the United States of America.
Restriction@country is an optional attribute; there is no default.

Example 

    ...
<award-group id="arda-511"  award-type="contract">
<funding-source country="US">ARDA ACQUAINT</funding-source>
<principal-award-recipient>Berkeley</principal-award-recipient>
</award-group>
...

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d3

Version of April 2015

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