Here's something to start with, with my suggestions for field definitions in the Access database:
| Ben's categories | DublinCore field(s) | my notes |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Title | text field, up to 100 characters |
| Author / editor / transcriber | Creator | text field, up to 100 characters; may be delimited |
| Date of publication | Date | just year |
| Physical description | Format | text field, up to 100 characters |
| URL for Web resources | Relation | text field, up to 100 characters |
| Place of publication | Publisher | text field, up to 100 characters |
| Publisher | Publisher | |
| Synopsis/abstract | Description | memo field |
| Relationships | Description | memo field |
| Spatial coverage | Coverage | fields for lat and long, 5 significant digits |
| Temporal coverage | Coverage | fields for dates in various formats |
| Subject | Subject | multiple text fields, 100 characters each |
| Contributor | text field, up to 100 characters | |
| Type | text field, up to 100 characters | |
| Identifier | text field, up to 100 characters --might be Annie call number, etc. | |
| Source | text field, up to 100 characters --might be URL | |
| Language | text field, up to 25 characters (usually English) | |
| Rights | text field, up to 100 characters (copyright, etc.) |