The Copyright Table

Copyright Table

I proposed this table for two reasons:

• To facilitate bibliographic citation of e Sword resources;

• To provide a way to easily determine the copyright status of a resource;

This table is automatically created by BeST 2.0. Other utility programs may also create it.

This table is not part of the official specification; Inclusion of this table is optional;

All of this data can be included in the Description field of the Details Table; Only user created e Sword resources currently contain this table; BeST is the only tool that currently generates this table; Both Text2DAO and TheWORDpad Editor enable one to read, or edit this table, if it is present in the resource. e Sword Resourcer is the only tool that currently reads/utilizes this table;

By definition, the following record numbers are reserved:

• Record 0: The tool that created the resource;

• Record 1: The first edition hard copy;

• Record 2: The edition that was used as the source text;

• Record 3: Electronic text copyright information;

• Record 4: e Sword module copyright information;

• Record 5 and higher: Changes to the module;

In practice, those specifications are not always strictly adhered to. :(

In the following database, fields are rows, not columns¹.

Field Name	Contents	What	Description	Type
ID	1	Record Number	Internal Tracking number	Autonumber
Author	Jonathon Blake	Display name of the author	Name of the author/editor/transcriber of the material.	Text
Title	The e Sword Utility Program FAQ	Display title of the material.	Title of the material.	Text
Place	Seattle WA	Display place of publication.	Place of publication. For material that originally appeared on the Internet, the URL is to be listed.	Text
Publisher	Author	Display name of publisher.	Name of the publisher	Text
Year	2005 2006	Display year of publication	Year of publication	Text
Edition	0.0.68.0	Edition that the module is of	Edition or Version information.	Text
Copyright	Creative Commons Deed Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 2.0	Display Copyright Status or License	License or Copyright status of the format.	Memo
Notes	Send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA requesting a copy of the legal code.	Notes about the text/edition/format	Notes related to the resource. Examples include: Terms of the license, Copy of the permission to distribute, Changes made in the resource;	Memo

Table 3: Copyright

1There are too many fields to have them all displayed in one row.