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.) |