Constructed Title

What are Constructed Titles?

The title of each resource, whether top level or container, is constructed automatically from a concatenation of the fields entered in Heurist using a concatenation mask defined by the system adminstrators.

For example: books end up with a constructed title that consists of: 1. the title entered, 2. authors/editors, 3. year, that is suitably punctuated.

Constructed titles do not replace the reference title entered.  Constructed titles are used to provide a more informative title in search results.

For example: "Analytical Archaeology, Clarke, D.L. 1978" appears rather than just "Analytical Archaeology" in the search results list. 

Constructed titles are not used for bibliographic output, which goes back to the original title entered. Constructed titles can also be edited, but they will revert to a new constructed title if the bibliographic record is edited.  If you consider that the constructed titles generated are not appropriate, let us know.  It is easy to change the the constructed title if we agree with your view.