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Entries in IATE have a series of fields that are either mandatory or optional.
MANDATORY FIELDS
Mandatory fields are marked with a red asterisk * in front of the field label in the IATE user interface. You need to fill in these fields to be able to create an entry. They include the:
- Source language
- Target language
- Term
- Term reference
- Term type
- Reliability
- Domain
- Owner (automatically populated)
 Lookups are allowed as term type if there is at least one non-lookup term for the same language. |
OPTIONAL FIELDS
Optional fields can be added or removed at any time. You do not need to fill in any of these fields to be able to create an entry. These fields can be found at Term Level (TL), Language Level (LL), and Language-Independent Level (LIL). They include:
Term level (TL)
- Evaluation
- Part of speech
- Gender
- Number
- Note
- Note reference
- Term in context
- Context reference – mandatory if a context is included
- Language usage
- Language usage reference
- Regional usage
- Regional usage reference
- Management (*)
- Collections
- Customer
- Customer note
- Pre-IATE (*)
- Confidentiality (*)
- Protection (*)
- Protection strategy (*)
- Protection level (*)
Language level (LL)
- Definition
- Definition reference – mandatory if a definition is included
- Note
- Note reference
- Related material (*)
- Management (*)
- Collections
- Attachments
- Attachments note
- Pre-IATE (*)
- Confidentiality (*)
- Protection (*)
- Protection strategy (*)
- Protection level (*)
- Cascade protection (*)
Language-independent level (LIL)
- Primarity
- Origin
- Origin note
- Lifecycle
- Management (*)
- Note
- Note reference
- Cross-references: ID and relation type
- Collections
- Attachments
- Attachment note
- Confidentiality (*)
- Entry status (*)
- Protection (*)
- Protection strategy (*)
- Protection level (*)
- Cascade protection (*)
| The fields marked with a black asterisk (*) in the above lists are not visible to external users. |