Property Templates: Types of fields and options for each
To set up a template, you fill in template metdata and configure Property Templates. You'll need one Property Template for every field you want in the form that will be created from this template.
After you open a blank template by clicking the New template button the Resource Templates tab, your blank template has one Property Template. A template must have at least one Property Template configured. In other words, a cataloging form in Sinopia will have at least one field.
To add additional Property Templates to your Template (which you're going to have to do if you want your form to have more than one field!), click +Add another.
Below are instructions for configuring each Property Template.
- Enter the property URI. The property URI you enter here will end up as the property of the RDF statement created by this field when the template is used for cataloging. So if you enter
http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/copyrightDatehere, and the cataloger fills in this field with2000, the resulting RDF statement will be<> http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/copyrightDate "2000" .where <> is the URI Sinopia will mint for the "thing" that is cataloged. - Sinopia does enforce that the value you enter here is a URI, but Sinopia doesn't enforce that it has to be a valid property for the Class you entered in the template metadata. You can use any property from any ontology. (In fact, Sinopia does not check that it's actually a property at all, just that it's a URI.)
- Important limitation! You cannot have create more than one field in a template with the same property URI. A cataloger can repeat a field you set up--this is explained below, but you can only set up one field with a particular property. (See this page if you want to know more.) Sinopia does not enforce this limitation when you save your template, but the cataloger will get this error message when trying to use a template with more than one field with the same property URI:
