At 02:03 PM 10/29/98 -0800, myolles wrote:
> I have a few questions about the database default form for object
> type. Selecting the "Object" tab, one is presented with seven fields
> to fill in.
>
> CollectionID: I presume this is a local ID (not a project id).
>
Right. We are assuming that every object in your database will have a
unique CollectionID.
> OwnerName: There isn't enough space in the field for "The New York
> Public Library." Does an abbreviation suffice?
That should be fine. Just bear in mind that whatever you enter in that
field is what will be displayed to users inquiring as to who owns the
object in question.
>
> FindingAid: I presume this is a conventional title like "Inventory of
> the XYZ Papers" Or should it conform to a standard like the Uniform
> Public Identifier used in the EAD finding aid?
The FindingAid field should record a URL for accessing the Finding Aid
for this object. Ultimately, it should probably record something more
persistent (such as a URN or DOI), but since we don't have resolution
mechanisms for those in place, we'll make do with URLs for the moment.
> MarcRecord: Do we just skip this field if there is no Marc record for
> the finding aid? What about the Marc record for the collection?
For this project, the MarcRecord field should record a URL for the MARC
record for the collection. As I'm assuming we'll want this field
to point to the catalog of MARC records being created at UCB, you can
probably skip that field for the moment.
> In general, it is difficult to know exactly how to fill in these
> fields if we don't know where and in what format the data is going to
> appear or how it is going to be used.
We're working on documentation for the database, which will include
information on the database fields' relationship to elements within
the MOA2 XML documents. Hopefully, that will clear things up a bit.
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