Authority Term Name Standard Field Schema

The fields below should be included as a group in all existing and proposed controlled vocabulary/authority schema. Schema may include additional name-related fields.

Schema

Information Group	Information Unit	Definition	Field Type	Field Repeatable	Group Repeatable
Term Group	Display name	Term that displays in search results / reports. May consist of a combination of several of the below fields	Text	No	Yes
	Term	The name of the term	Text	No
	Qualifier	Word or phrase used primarily to distinguish between homographs	Text	No
	Term type	An indication of the type of term to be used if the authority is intended to be compliant with standards for thesaurus construction.	Controlled list	No
	Status	A field noting the status of a term in a vocabulary, whether provisional or accepted.	Controlled list	No
	Language	An indication of the language of the term, particularly when the term is in a language other than the language of the catalog record	Controlled list	No
	Preferred for language	Flag indicating that the term is the preferred form for the term language	Checkbox	No
	Source	A reference to a bibliographic source or unpublished document that provides the warrant for a particular term.	Citation authority	No
	Source detail	Page number, volume, date accessed for Web sites, and any other information indicating where in the source the term was found	Text	No
	Source unique ID	Unique identifier assigned to the term by the source recorded in the Term Source field	Text	No
	Source note	Additional information about the source not indexed in other fields	Text	No