Default templates

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The DCB ships with default screen layouts ("templates") for viewing and editing resource descriptions, authority records and organizations. These layouts are based on the the following descriptive standards:
 * Resource descriptions: Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1, Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) and Rules for Archival Description (RAD).
 * Authority records: International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (ISAAR), Second edition.
 * Organizations: International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings (ISDIAH), First edition.

Select default templates

 * 1) Go to Admin > Settings.
 * 2) Open the Default template information area.
 * 3) * The Name column shows the types of entities that are described in the DCB.
 * 4) * In the Value column, select for each type of entity the descriptive standard you want to use to describe it.
 * 5) * The drop-down menu shows only descriptive standards for which data entry/viewing templates are available.
 * 6) Click the Save button in the button block to save changes. When you return to viewing/editing information, the records will display in the templates you selected.