Page Comparison

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Simple Fields

Complex Fields

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Level 1

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Extends

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Comment

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Example

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Since

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no specialisation

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Contains as value a list of metadata fields

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Browses

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MultiItemField

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Contains as value a list of simple fields. 

• The string value of sub fields are trimmed and empty values are ignored

• The sub fields have no order

• The sub fields can be duplicate on their key, but their value must differ (case insensitive)

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Authors

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ListField

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MultiItemField

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• ListField is a specialised MultiItemField where all sub fields must have the same (predefined) key

• This allows for representing the value as a list

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Keywords

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MapField

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MultiItemField

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• MapField is a specialized MultiItemField where all sub fields have a unique key.

• This allows for representing the value as a (hash) map

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Browses.Browse

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PositionField

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MapField

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• PositionField is a specialised MapField with following sub fields

  • Location is a GeoCoordinateField

  • Address contains the formatted address line

  • Country (optional)

  • Area (optional)

  • SubArea (optional)

  • Postal (optional)

  • Locality (optional)

  • SubLocality (optional)

  • Street (optional)

• The system automatically fills out Location or Address if one of the two is missing

• See the field Position as example in Metadata 21.2

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Position

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21.2

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OrderedMultiItemField

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ComplexField

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Contains as value a list of simple fields. 

• The string value of sub fields are trimmed and empty values are ignored

• The sub fields have a strict order

• The sub fields can be duplicate on their key, but their value must differ (case sensitive)

• When adding a sub field which already exists it will moved to the end of the list

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Profiles

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21.2

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ComplexListField

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ComplexField

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Contains as value a list of complex fields

• All sub fields must have the same (predefined) key

• Each sub field must have a distinct value

• When adding a sub field which already exists it will moved to the end of the list

• This allows for representing the value as a list

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LimitedCategories

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21.3

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ThesaurusField

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MapField

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Contains a single concept from a thesaurus. See Thesaurus Field for more information.

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Category child of

LimitedCategories

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Complex Fields