[DCRM-L] Fwd: Re: Genre Terms query: blank forms

[Susan Sundquist]

hi all,
I passed on some of the discussion regarding "blank forms" to the AAT folks here at the GRI.  Patricia Harpring asked me to post this reply to the list for her.

Susan Sundquist, Serials Cataloger
Research Library, Getty Research Institute


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>From Patricia Harpring, Managing Editor, Getty Vocabulary Program, pharpring at getty.edu 

The discussion of "blank forms" has been very interesting. We always appreciate feedback from the user community. Based on your comments, we've done additional research and have rewritten Scope Notes for a few terms, which surprisingly have not received comment since they were created in the 1980s. You will see the revised records online when we next refresh our Web data in early March. I hope the meaning and intended usage of these terms is now clearer. If anyone would like to become a contributor to the AAT, please write to vocab at getty.edu to receive a login for our online contribution form.

forms (documents)
SN: General term referring to formulary documents having an established arrangement of different parts and often a fixed order of words. Forms are used for acquiring particular information or for presenting particular information in a prescribed sequence and format. Forms may be handwritten, printed, typed, or online. Forms for acquiring information typically have titles for each type of data accompanied by blank spaces or lines, check boxes, pull-down lists, data entry fields, or other methods to prompt for the insertion of the requested information for each data type; they may also include instructions for how to fill out the form. Forms that present information do so in a standardized sequence and format, typically with a sequence of titles naming the types of data followed by the values of information related to that type of data.

blank forms
SN: Forms, which are formulary documents that arrange particular information in a prescribed sequence and format, that are created with blank spaces, lines, boxes, data entry fields, or other means to prompt users of the form to fill in the particular information. Blank forms may be handwritten, printed, typed, or online. When indexing, this term may be used for such forms, whether or not they have been filled in by a user of the form.

A new RT for blank forms
templates (documents)
SN: Master documents containing a standard or preset design, layout, format, and sometimes style, but lacking some or most content. Templates are intended to be used for creating content according to a prescribed and repeatable formula in electronic or paper media. Examples of the use of templates are to create form letters, pages in printed media, and HTML pages on a Web site.