European Pagan Memory Day

Recapitulation of discussion matters

• Object of the database, receivers of database
• Block structure
• Common language of the database and exceptions for blocks or fields
• Software to be used
• Block 1--
• Data about the dedicatee deity or about the original temple?
• Should we include the current block 4--
• Fields in the block
• Form of the name of the deity: language to be used and concordance tables
• Expression to be used when dedicatee deities are not known
• Block 2-- location of sacred site
• Fields in the block
• Hierarchical order of elements
• Language to be used and concordance tables for most translated names
• Maps to identify wider divisions
• Block 3-- reused part
• Fields in the block and division of element 300 in subfields
• Controlled vocabulary for words to be used, in the database's common language
• Concordance tables and translation of words; possible illustrations
• How to indicate centuries
• Block 4-- original temple dating
• Should we keep this block or modify the block 1--?
• Block 5-- christian church reusing the sacred site
• Fields in the block
• Form of the name of the church and opportunity of a double form; concordance tables
• Block 6-- notes
• What notes could be interesting?
• Should we keep this block or divide it into different fields in different blocks?
• If we keep the block, should we have one only element or create more than one for different kind of notes?
• Block 7-- photographs
• Fields in the block
• Adding a block 8-- about the sources and eventually its division in fields
• Ways and methods to discuss the standard
• Ways to integrate databases and to create the searchable version