Indexing of the CERL Thesaurus

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Available Search Fields

The CERL Thesaurus comes with a complex index that allows for sophisticated searches. The following search fields are available:

field all words Anaylzer Type Fields Description
active_in no standard string/id 515$3
with $0 'actv','resd','teac','schl','stud' or 'trad'
id of a place of activity of an entity
active_in:cnl00028786
address yes standard string 515$a$d$e$r search within the address of an entity
address:“Kerk-straat”
based_in no standard string/id 515$3
with $0 'dioc'
id of the place a diocese or parish is based in
based_in:cnl00014398
born_in no standard string/id 515$3
with $0 'brth'
id of the place a person was born in
born_in:cnl00008322
child_of no standard string/id 500$3
with $0 'ex:hasParent'
id of a person who is a parent to another person
collaborator_of no standard string/id 500$3,510$3
with $0 'ex:hasCollaborator'
id of a person or printer who has worked together with another person or printer
corporateName yes standard string 212$a$b$e$r, 412$a$b$e$r name (heading or variant) of a corporate entity (word)
corporateName:university
corporateName.orig no none string 212$a$b$e$r, 412$a$b$e$r name (heading or variant) of a corporate entity (phrase)
dedup no standard string/code 001c/p0-2
with 831#1 present in the record
type of a record that is marked for deduplication
dedup:cnl
died_in no standard string/id 515$3
with $0 'deat'
id of a place where a person died
duplicate_of no standard string/id 831#1$a id of a record that could be a duplicate of another record
external_id yes standard string 801$b$c ID from an external file
external_id:gnd or external_id:(gnd 1029934118)
feature no standard string/code 956, 516 a certain feature/chunk of information of a record
prdv Printers' Devices
prov Provenance Information
imag Image
feature:prdv
gender no standard string/code 120$a a person's or printer's gender (code)
a female
b male
u unknown
gender:a
has_member no standard string/id 512$3
with $0 'ex:isMemberOf'
id of a corporate body that has members
id yes standard string/id 001, 035$z CERL Thesaurus ID
id:cnc00006222
imprintName yes standard string 210$a$b$e$r, 410$f$a$b$e$r a name of a printer/bookseller etc. (heading or variant) (word)
imprintName:sermartelli
imprintName.orig no none string 210$a$b$e$r, 410$f$a$b$e$r a name of a printer/bookseller etc. (heading or variant) (phrase)
last_changed no standard date 999$a$b
only the last occurrence of 999
date a record has last been changed
last_changed:[2017-12-01 TO * ] all records changed at or after Dec, 1st 2017
lived_in no standard string/id 515$3
with $0 'resd'
id of a place where a person lived
location no standard geopoint 123$d$f Geographic coordinates of a place
name yes standard string 200/210/212/215$a$b$e$r, 400/410/412/415$f$a$b$e$r name of an entity (word). This index is a combination of personalName, imprintName, corporateName and placeName
name:hamburg
name.orig no none string 200/210/212/215$a$b$e$r, 400/410/412/415$f$a$b$e$r name of an entity (phrase). This index is a combination of personalName.orig, imprintName.orig, corporateName.orig and placeName.orig
name_display_line yes standard string 200/210/212/215$a$b$e$r
only the first occurrence
name of an entity (word). This index field is used primarily for display, not search
name_display_line.orig yes none string 200/210/212/215$a$b$e$r
only the first occurrence
name of an entity (phrase). This index field is used primarily for display, not search
note yes standard string 300$a,350$a,356$a a general note, activity note or geographic note
note:printer
parent_of no standard string/id 500$3
with $0 'ex:hasChild'
id of a person that is the child of another person
placeName yes standard string 215$a$e$r, 415$a$e$r name (heading or variant) of a place (word)
placeName:hamburg
placeName.orig no none string 215$a$e$r, 415$a$e$r name (heading or variant) of a place (phrase)
personalName yes standard string 200$a$b$e$r, 400$f$a$b$e$r name (heading or variant) of a person (word)
personalName:aristoteles
personalName.orig no none string 200$a$b$e$r, 400$f$a$b$e$r name (heading or variant) of a person (phrase)
personalName:aristoteles
predecessor_of no standard string/id 500/510/512$3 id of the entity that is the successor of another entity
record_flag no standard string 830$6 a specific record marker
record_flag:ba18
related_to no standard string/id 500/510/512/515$3 id of a record related to another record (backlinks)
related_to:cnl00032270
school_in no standard string/id 515$3
with $0 'schl'
id of a place where a person visited a school
sign yes standard string 516$a$n description of a sign/marks/device etc
sign:tortuga
spouse_of no standard string/id 500$3
with $0 'ex:hasSpouse'
id of a person that has been married to another person
studied_in no standard string/id 515$3
with $0 'stud'
id of a place where a person visited a university
subordinate_to no standard string/id 512$3
with $0 'ex:hasSuperiorHierarchicalLevel'
id of a corporate entity that has a sub division
successor_of no standard string/id 500/510/512$3
with $0 'ex:hasPredecessor'
id of an entity that is a predecessor to another entity
superior_to no standard string/id 512$3
with $0 'ex:hasSubordinateHierarchicalLevel'
id of a corporate entity that is a sub-division of another corporate entity
tought_in no standard string/id 515$3
with $0 'teac'
id of a place where a person was teaching (e.g. at a school or university)
traded_in no standard string/id 515$3
with $0 'trad'
id of a place where another entity conducted business
type no standard string/code 001c/p0-2 record type
type:cnp
visited no standard string/id 515$3
with $0 'vist'
id of a place a person has visited
year_end yes standard date 340$x search for entities whose activity or existence ended before, in or after a certain year
year_end:>1800
year_end:<1500
year_start yes standard date 340$x search for entities whose activity or existence started before, in or after a certain year
year_start:[1530 TO 1560]

In addition to these searchable fields, the index contains the followin fields, which cannot be searched, but are used to generate the result set display:

additional_display_lineadditional information on the entity
name_display_linename of the entity

Query Syntax

Search fields of the type string (except those ending in .orig) are word indexed, case-insensitive and diacritics are replaced by the base character. They can be searched by just typing the search term after the search key's name, separated by a colon:

The fields named .orig contain the original field's content as a phrase, case-sensitive, diacritics are not replaced:

Search fields of the type date allow for range searches:

Search terms can be combined by using the Boolean Operators AND, OR and NOT. Please note that these must always be written in upper case.

Truncation/Wildcards can be used as well. Please that using wildcards will slow down the response time remarkably.

A more detailed description of the query syntax can be found here: https://www.cheatography.com/jelle/cheat-sheets/elasticsearch-query-string-syntax/

Searching Relationships

A number of the search keys listed above allow to retrace the relationship between the entities described in the CERL Thesaurus. It is assumed that one part of the relationship is known, e.g. a person or a place and using this person's or place's id, we can retrieve the records that link back to it.

For example: Knowing the ID for the place “Tübingen”, we can retrieve persons who went to university here: studied_in:cnl00014526