Sanda Cherata * CONCORD - Software System for Concordances of Romanian Poetical Texts

2. The basic databases of CONCORD

These databases contain, in a structured form, the whole information concerning the treated author and his works. The information is easy to retrieve and to process and is structured in such a way as to allow various uses; it is meant to contain as much data as possible and to serve as basis for dictionaries of Romanian poets and their works.

The main databases used by CONCORD are the following:

1. The authors' database, with the following fields:

   Field	Field Name	Type	Width	Notes
   1	NUME_AUT	Character	20	Author's last name
   2	PREN_AUT	Character	20	Author's first name
   3	COD_AUT	Character	3	Author's code
   ** Total **			44

   Other information ( author's bio-bibliographic data) may be subsequently added, to be used by other applications; those listed here, however, are strictly needed by the CONCORD system.
   
   

2. The volumes databases These databases contain, for each author, the information concerning the volumes that his work comprises. The basic information is:

   Field	Field Name	Type	Width	Notes
   1	COD_AUT	Character	3	Author's code
   2	COD_VOL	Character	2	Code of the volume
   3	TITLU_VOL	Character	20	Name (title) of the volume
   ** Total **			26

   Other data referring to each volume may be added: date of first publishing, publisher, etc.
   
   

3. Databases of cycles and/or sub-cycles

   Field	Field Name	Type	Width	Notes
   1	COD_VOL	Character	3	Code of the volume
   2	COD_CIC	Character	3	Code of the cycle
   3	DEN_CIC	Character	50	Name of cycle
   4	COD_SBCIC	Character	3	Code of sub-cycle
   5	DEN_SBCIC	Character	50	Name of sub-cycle
   ** Total **			110

   
   
   

4. Databases for the author's poetical work

   Field	Field Name	Type	Width	Notes
   1	COD_AUT	Character	3	Author's code
   2	COD_VOL	Character	3	Code of the volume
   3	COD_CIC	Character	3	Code of the cycle
   4	COD_SBCIC	Character	3	Code of sub-cycle
   5	COD_POE	Character	5	Code of the poem
   6	E_T	Logical	1	True if the poem has a proper title
   7	TITLU_POE	Character	70	Title of the poem
   8	SBTIT_POE	Character	70	Sub-title of the poem
   9	DEDIC_POE	Memo	10	Text of the dedication
   10	MOTTO_POE	Memo	10	Text of the motto
   11	FIN_POE	Memo	10	Text of the final note
   12	POEM	Memo	10	Text of the poem
   ** Total **			199

In order to assist the user in inputing the data in these databases, the system supplies an interface that allows entering the data in an easy way, by means of dialog windows. The inputs are checked with respect to uniqueness of codes and access keys. At the user's request, the spelling-checking of the texts may be performed. The collation of the text, however, must be done by comparison with the original text (the reference edition).

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