Julkaistukentät

Julkaistukentät is a term used in library and information science to refer to the set of metadata fields that describe a publication within bibliographic records and digital repositories. The exact usage of the term varies, and in practice Finnish libraries and cataloging contexts may prefer forms such as julkaisutkentät or julkaisukentät. The concept describes the information elements that support identification, discovery, access, and linking of published works.

The main purpose of julkaistukentät is to provide essential bibliographic information about a publication. These fields enable users to search effectively, verify details, and retrieve the correct item in catalogs, databases, and repositories. They also support interoperability between systems by standardizing how publication information is described.

Typical fields associated with julkaistukentät include title, creators (authors or editors), publication year, place of publication, publisher, edition, volume and issue for serials, language, ISBN/ISSN/DOI, page count, format, series, and description or abstract. Additional elements commonly found are subjects or keywords, classification or genre, rights or access status, and the electronic location or URL for online items. Depending on the metadata schema, other fields such as dates related to publication, file formats, or related works may also be used.

Standards such as Dublin Core, MARC, and MODS guide the structure and subfields of julkaistukentät. Dublin Core, for example, provides core elements like Title, Creator, Date, Publisher, Language, Description, Subject, Type, Identifier, and Source, while MARC and MODS offer more granular and library-specific tagging. In Finnish contexts, julkaistukentät are often mapped to these international standards while being presented with Finnish labels in catalogs and repositories.

Note that the term is not universally standardized; professionals typically refer to bibliographic metadata fields or to the applicable schema, using localized terminology in addition to international standards.