3.3.1 Complications / Simplifications at the Part Level

Part has more complications than the other levels; is it because this very level is the one that contains the information most specific to medieval and renaissance manuscript books?  After all, call number and provenance (at the Manuscript level), and author and title (at the Text level), and even Image with its locating information and caption are not unknown in the realm of the printed book.

In recognition, however, of the complexity of data entry at this level, and in anticipation of combining the information from many institutions, DS-Access provides a number of tools in the form of list or drop-down boxes (you can't or shouldn't need to change them), verification lists (you can see what you've called something in previous records), and automatic expansion to computer-readable forms (from roman to arabic numerals).