diff --git a/simplestore/etc/static/css/simplestore-style.css b/simplestore/etc/static/css/simplestore-style.css
index 6568dc6208..2caa65df5e 100755
--- a/simplestore/etc/static/css/simplestore-style.css
+++ b/simplestore/etc/static/css/simplestore-style.css
@@ -298,3 +298,22 @@ a.description:hover span {
     border:10px solid #666;
     background-color:#666; color:#fff
 }
+
+.plus, .minus {
+  width:30px;
+  height:30px;
+  overflow:hidden;
+}
+
+.plus {
+  background: url(/img/plus.png);
+}
+
+.minus {
+  background: url(/img/minus.png);
+}
+
+.add_field {
+  float:left;
+  width:240px;
+}
diff --git a/simplestore/etc/static/img/minus.png b/simplestore/etc/static/img/minus.png
new file mode 100644
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diff --git a/simplestore/etc/static/img/plus.png b/simplestore/etc/static/img/plus.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..267ea64b53
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diff --git a/simplestore/etc/templates/simplestore-addmeta-table.html b/simplestore/etc/templates/simplestore-addmeta-table.html
index d2753e7a43..53de3a18a0 100755
--- a/simplestore/etc/templates/simplestore-addmeta-table.html
+++ b/simplestore/etc/templates/simplestore-addmeta-table.html
@@ -104,3 +104,39 @@
     });
 });
 </script>
+
+<script type="text/javascript">
+ var rowNum = 0;
+
+ $('form .plus').click(function(){
+      rowNum ++;
+      var name = $(this).attr('name');
+      var placeholder = $(this).attr('data-placeholder');
+      var cardinality = $(this).attr('data-cardinality');
+        
+      var row = '<div id="rowNum'+rowNum+'">'
+      row += '<input class="add_field" id="inputRowNum'+rowNum+'" type="text" name="'+name+'" placeholder="'+placeholder+'">';
+      row += '<div class="minus" data-name="'+name+'" data-cardinality="'+cardinality+'" data-row="'+rowNum+'"></div>';
+      row += '</div>';
+      $('#'+name+"_div").append(row);
+        
+      var rowCount = $('#'+name+"_div > div").length;
+      if (cardinality <= rowCount){
+          $("#"+name+"_add").css("visibility", "hidden");
+      }
+ });
+ 
+ $('form').on('click', '.minus', function() {
+     var row = $(this).attr('data-row');
+     var name = $(this).attr('data-name');
+     var cardinality = $(this).attr('data-cardinality');     
+
+     $('#rowNum'+row).remove();
+
+     var rowCount = $('#'+name+"_div > div").length;
+     if (cardinality > rowCount){
+         $("#"+name+"_add").css("visibility", "visible");
+     } 
+ });
+ 
+</script>
diff --git a/simplestore/lib/simplestore_marc_handler.py b/simplestore/lib/simplestore_marc_handler.py
index a8e56337f6..636169adc9 100644
--- a/simplestore/lib/simplestore_marc_handler.py
+++ b/simplestore/lib/simplestore_marc_handler.py
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ def add_basic_fields(rec, form, email):
         if form['title']:
             record_add_field(rec, '245', subfields=[('a', remove_html_markup(form['title']))])
 
-        if form['creator']:
-            for kw in form['creator'].split(';'):
-                if kw and not kw.isspace():
-                    record_add_field(rec, '100', subfields=[('a', remove_html_markup(kw.strip()))])
+        if form['creator']:        
+            fields = form.getlist('creator')
+            for f in fields:
+                if f and not f.isspace():
+                    record_add_field(rec, '100', subfields=[('a', remove_html_markup(f.strip()))])
+            
 
         if form['domain']:
             record_add_field(rec, '980', subfields=[('a', remove_html_markup(form['domain']))])
@@ -67,16 +69,18 @@ def add_basic_fields(rec, form, email):
             record_add_field(rec, '540', subfields=[('a', remove_html_markup(form['licence']))])
         record_add_field(rec, '520', subfields=[('a', remove_html_markup(form['description']))])
 
-        if form['keywords']:
-            for kw in form['keywords'].split(','):
+        if form['tags']:
+            for kw in form['tags'].split(','):
                 if kw and not kw.isspace():
                     record_add_field(rec, '653',
                                  ind1='1',
                                  subfields=[('a', remove_html_markup(kw.strip()))])
 
         if form['contributors']:
-            for kw in form['contributors'].split(';'):
-                record_add_field(rec, '700', subfields=[('a', remove_html_markup(kw.strip()))])
+            fields = form.getlist('contributors')
+            for f in fields:
+                if f and not f.isspace():
+                    record_add_field(rec, '700', subfields=[('a', remove_html_markup(f.strip()))])
 
         record_add_field(rec, '546', subfields=[('a', remove_html_markup(form['language']))])
 
@@ -164,11 +168,14 @@ def add_domain_fields(rec, form):
 
     for fs in meta.fieldsets:
         if fs.name != 'Generic':  # TODO: this is brittle; get from somewhere
-            for k in (fs.optional_fields + fs.basic_fields):
+            for k in (fs.optional_fields + fs.basic_fields):                
                 if form[k]:
-                    record_add_field(rec, '690',
-                                     subfields=[('a', k), ('b', form[k])])
-
+                    fields = form.getlist(k)
+                    for f in fields:
+                        if f and not f.isspace():
+                            record_add_field(rec, '690',
+                                     subfields=[('a', k), ('b', f)])
+ 
 
 def add_epic_pid(rec, recid, checksum):
     """ Adds EPIC PID to the record. If registration fails, can
diff --git a/simplestore/lib/simplestore_model/HTML5ModelConverter.py b/simplestore/lib/simplestore_model/HTML5ModelConverter.py
index e7e2687f00..9355d12a70 100644
--- a/simplestore/lib/simplestore_model/HTML5ModelConverter.py
+++ b/simplestore/lib/simplestore_model/HTML5ModelConverter.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ def __call__(self, field, **kwargs):
         html.append('</select>')
         html.append('<input type=text style="display: none" {0} {1} >'
             .format(html_params(name=field.name+"_input"),
-                    html_params(id=field.name+"_input")))
+                    html_params(id=field.name+"_input")))                          
         return HTMLString(''.join(html))
 
 
@@ -202,6 +202,33 @@ def __init__(self, other="", **field_args):
         super(SelectFieldWithInput, self).__init__(**field_args)
 
 
+class AddFieldInput(Input):
+    input_type = "text"
+
+    def __call__(self, field, **kwargs):
+        kwargs.setdefault('id', field.id)
+        html = ['<div id="'+field.name+'_div">']
+        html.append('<div id="rowNum0">')
+        html.append('<input class="add_field" type="text" id="inputRowNum0" placeholder="{0}" {1}>'
+            .format(field.placeholder, self.html_params(name=field.name, **kwargs)))                             
+        html.append('<div class="plus" id="{2}_add" data-placeholder="{0}" data-cardinality="{1}" name="{2}"></div>'
+            .format(field.placeholder, field.cardinality, field.name))
+        html.append('</div>')                          
+        html.append('</div>')
+        return HTMLString(''.join(html))
+
+class AddField(StringField):
+    widget = AddFieldInput()
+    placeholder = ""
+    cardinality = "n"
+
+    def __init__(self, cardinality="n", placeholder="", **field_args):
+        self.field_args = field_args
+        self.placeholder = placeholder
+        self.cardinality = cardinality
+        super(AddField, self).__init__(**field_args)
+
+
 class HiddenInput(Input):
     input_type = "hidden"
 
@@ -269,6 +296,9 @@ def conv_String(self, field_args, **extra):
         if hidden:
             return hidden
 
+        if 'cardinality' in field_args:
+            return AddField(**field_args)
+
         if 'placeholder' in field_args:
             return PlaceholderStringField(**field_args)
 
diff --git a/simplestore/lib/simplestore_model/model.py b/simplestore/lib/simplestore_model/model.py
index 82d19823f9..e9f909d68a 100644
--- a/simplestore/lib/simplestore_model/model.py
+++ b/simplestore/lib/simplestore_model/model.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class SubmissionMetadata(db.Model):
 
     id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
     description = db.Column(db.Text(), nullable=False)
-    creator = db.Column(db.String(256))  # split on ;
+    creator = db.Column(db.String(256)) 
     title = db.Column(db.String(256), nullable=False)
     open_access = db.Column(db.Boolean(), default=True)
 
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ class SubmissionMetadata(db.Model):
     publisher = db.Column(db.String(128), default=publisher_default)
     publication_date = db.Column('publication_year', db.Date(),
                                  default=publication_date_now)
-    keywords = db.Column(db.String(256))  # split on ,
+    tags = db.Column(db.String(256))  # split on ,
 
     # optional
-    contributors = db.Column(db.String(256))  # split on ;
+    contributors = db.Column(db.String(256))
     #language = db.Column(db.Enum(*babel.core.LOCALE_ALIASES.keys()))
     language = db.Column(db.String(128), default=language_default)
     resource_type = db.Column(db.String(256))  # XXX should be extracted to a separate class
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class SubmissionMetadata(db.Model):
     version = db.Column(db.String(128))
 
     basic_fields = ['title', 'description', 'creator', 'open_access',
-                    'licence', 'publisher', 'publication_date','language', 'keywords']
+                    'licence', 'publisher', 'publication_date','language', 'tags']
     optional_fields = ['contributors', 'resource_type',
                        'alternate_identifier', 'version']
 
@@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ def __init__(self):
                            'Apache v2 or Commercial); if no licence applies ' +\
                            'leave this field blank.'
         }
-        self.field_args['keywords'] = {
+        self.field_args['tags'] = {
             'placeholder': "keyword1, keyword2, ...",
             'description':
-            'A comma separated list of keywords that ' +\
+            'A comma separated list of tags (keywords) that ' +\
             'characterize the content.'
         }
         self.field_args['open_access'] = {
@@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ def __init__(self):
             'will not be public, however the metadata will be.'
         }
         self.field_args['contributors'] = {
-            'placeholder': 'contributor 1; contributor 2; ...',
+            'placeholder': 'contributor',
+            'cardinality': 'n',
             'description':
             'A semicolon separated list of all other ' +\
             'contributors. Mention all ' +\
@@ -161,7 +162,8 @@ def __init__(self):
             'Any kind of other reference such as a URN, URI or an ISBN number.'
         }
         self.field_args['creator'] = {
-            'placeholder': 'author 1; author 2; ... ',
+            'placeholder': 'author',
+            'cardinality': 'n',
             'description': 
             'A semicolon separated list of authors of the resource.'
         }
@@ -244,4 +246,11 @@ def is_external_attr(n):
             args['field_args'][f['name']]['placeholder'] = f.get('placeholder')
         if 'value' in f:
             args['field_args'][f['name']]['value'] = f.get('value')
+        if 'choices' in f:
+            args['field_args'][f['name']]['choices'] = f.get('choices')
+        if 'other' in f:
+            args['field_args'][f['name']]['other'] = f.get('other')
+        if 'cardinality' in f:
+            args['field_args'][f['name']]['cardinality'] = f.get('cardinality')
+
     return type(clsname, (SubmissionMetadata,), args)