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Individual Work Pages

Page template & field schema — Fear Project

Work Page — Field Summary
Bibliographic Info
Title
Publisher
City, State
Date(s)
Editions
Description
Summary 1–2 sentence summary
Digital Access
Editions Links to authoritative editions
Classification
Category 1+ of 3 controlled terms
Navigation
Alphabetical Index Complete list
Cross-referenced

Overview

Each Individual Work Page documents a single publication — a book, article, periodical, or other published work — mentioned or referenced within the Fear Project. Every page is built from five core components, described below.

1. Bibliographic Info

Title The full title of the work as published.
Publisher The publishing house, periodical, or issuing body.
City, State Place of publication.
Date(s) Original publication date, and dates of subsequent printings if relevant.
Editions Distinct editions of the work, where applicable (first edition, revised edition, etc.).

2. Description

A concise 1–2 sentence summary giving readers enough context to understand what the work is and why it appears in the project.

3. Digital Access

Links to authoritative digital editions of the work — scholarly archives, library digital collections, or other reliable full-text sources.

4. Category

Every work is tagged with one or more of the following controlled terms:

  • Twain
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source

5. Alphabetical Index

Two companion indexes support navigation across all work pages:

Complete List
All works mentioned, listed alphabetically from A to Z, linking out to their individual page.
Cross-Referenced Index
The same list of works, cross-referenced by category and by the people, places, and corporate bodies associated with them.

Special Note — Dual-Role Publishers: Some publishers are themselves organizations with their own institutional history and should be documented in both places. A periodical such as the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, or a magazine like The Atlantic, can appear as a Work (the publication itself, cataloged under Bibliographic Info) and as a Corporate Body (the publishing organization, cataloged under Individual Corporate Bodies Pages, typically under the Publishing/Media type). When this occurs, the two pages should be cross-linked bidirectionally so that a reader can move from the publication to the publisher and back.


Individual Work Pages template — Fear Project data source. Category vocabulary: 3 terms.