Custom Fields

The Overview Tab displays the History Factory catalog data within the “Custom Fields” section of the view. 

The cataloged data from the archivist team include:

• Title: A name given to the asset.
• Creator: An entity primarily responsible for making the asset. A Creator can be a person, an organization, or a service.
• Description: A free-text account of the asset. This element provides information that cannot be accommodated in any of the defined fields of description.  It includes but isn’t limited to information on sources of descriptive information, title variations, statements of responsibility, signatures and inscriptions, attributions and conjectures, editions, and dates.
• Format: The physical medium of the asset.
• Location: A pointer to whether the asset exists, whether that’s to a file system or to a shelf, drawer or other container at a storage facility.
• Resource Type: The nature or genre of the asset.
• Restricted: Information about who can access the asset based on privacy, security, or other policies [an indication of the security status of the asset].
• Subject: A topic of the asset.
• Year Start: Date of creation of the asset; or, if the assets in the unit being described span a period of time, the earliest date of the assets.
• Year End: Date of creation of the asset; or, if the assets in the unit being described span a period of time, the latest date of the assets.