The dates included in this element are fundamental to the description of a record. All other dates which pertain to the management, use and preservation of records are covered under elements 15. For implementation purposes, this element may be subsumed under element 15. The date and time at which a record is sent or received by a corporate entity, such as an agency, in the course of its business. To enable a search to be restricted to before, after or between particular dates of creation.
Creation is a fundamental date in the life of a record.
Obligation Mandatory Conditions Shall be used in conjunction with element 1. For a single item, this sub-element shall contain a single date. For aggregations of records, this sub-element shall contain a date range. System-generated Schemes ISO 8601 Standard for Date Encoding. The act of creation applies not only to an item, but also to the logical aggregations file and series.