Vcat
Best Practices:
Country
Part
of the Locations hierarchy, Country is directly under Continent and above
StateRegion. The Country Table contains all the countries of the world extant at
the time of the writing of this document. It also contains a few general
regions that encompass multiple countries. Additions to the Country Table must
be approved by the Staff.
Note:
The Locations hierarchy may contain “unknown” as entries. These are used only
when you have a named entity smaller than a continent wherein you cannot
establish one or more parts of the hierarchy ABOVE it. No Location hierarchy should
end in “unknown.”
TGN
button:
Opens the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
World
FactBook: Opens
the CIA World FactBook Online
Go button: opens the specific
record for the source, if the Ref ID is filled out
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Field
Name |
Local
Usage |
Notes |
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Creation Date |
Auto-generated |
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|
Modification Date |
Auto-generated |
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|
Cataloger |
Pull-down menu |
Entries from the Cataloger
Table |
|
English Name |
Use
Title Case |
CCO requires the use of
English name forms |
|
Native Name |
Use
Title Case |
Or Preferred name in the
Getty authorities |
|
Nationality |
Use
Title Case |
|
|
Country Code |
Use
alphabetical code |
Two letter code
established by ISO 3166. A list can be found here. |
|
Continent ID |
Enter from Continent Table |
Primary key for the Continent
facet |
|
Country ID |
Auto-generated |
Primary key for the
Country facet |
|
Country Extent |
Pull-down menu |
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|
Term Source |
Pull-down menu |
Standard short list of
online Authorities |
|
Ref ID |
As source |
The identification given to
the authority record by the authority source |
|
Portal |
Auto-entered, editable |
Auto-fills with records
from the next tier down in the hierarchy (in this case Country.) The numbers
on the left are the primary keys for the records. |
Continue
to StateRegion