AMICO Technology Committee

AMICO Structured Text Records
Character Sets, Tags and Delimiters
for Contribution to AMICO This version dated January 21, 1998

This specification applies to all structured text records contributed to The AMICO Library, both catalog records describing works of art, and metadata records describing related image, multimedia, or document files.

1.0    File Format

Data file must be in the ASCII text format.

2.0    Character Set

The character set must be ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 Standard.

3.0    Field Tags and Delimiters

Each field should be preceeded by its three character tag. The field delimiter (}~) should occur at the end of a field

Repeating groups of fields should be preceded by the group tag, followed directly by the field delimiter }~

Each field within a group should be preceded by a tag and followed by the field delimiter.

4.0    Record Delimiter

The record delimiter (|) should occur at the end of a record

5.0    Fields with No Data

Fields, other than group fields, with no data may be omitted from the record.

Last modified on  October 10, 2001