Terms

Main Page > User manual > UM-3 Add / edit content > UM-3.5 Edit taxonomies (terms)

Value lists in drop-down menus draw terms from taxonomies

Throughout ICA-AtoM, controlled vocabularies are used to generate drop-down menus. These provide value lists that restrict data entry in certain fields to certain values. ICA-AtoM typically stores these values as term records in the database, and assigns them to taxonomies.

• E.g. the type of entity field of an authority record can take only one of "corporate body, person, family." Each of these values is a term assigned to the actor entity types taxonomy.

ICA-AtoM ships with a fixed number of taxonomies containing default values (terms). Some terms are locked, i.e. cannot be edited or deleted, because they are used by the application's underlying code. Most terms, however, can be edited or deleted, and all taxonomies can be assigned new terms in addition to any locked values.

• Note that users (even administrators) cannot add new taxonomies; the number and names of taxonomies are fixed and can only be altered by developers working directly with the code.

Actions

UM-3.5.1 Add a new term to a taxonomy

UM-3.5.2 Edit an existing term in a taxonomy

UM-3.5.3 Delete an existing term from a taxonomy

Data entry

UM-3.5.4 Data entry: terms

Hierarchical taxonomies

UM-3.5.5 Hierarchical taxonomonomies

See also

UM-3.6 Exit edit mode (same for all record types).