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| ===== Searching ===== | ===== Searching ===== |
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| ===== Available Search Fields ===== | {{thesaurus11.png?200x100 }}To search for a name or title in the CERL Thesaurus, enter a search term into the search box and select the segments of the database you wish to search by ticking the boxes below the search box. You may search in more than one segment at a time. Searchable are name forms (in any word order), record identifiers (CT identifiers and other identifiers) as well as words and codes from the activity and geographic notes fields. |
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| | The records that match your search terms are grouped according the database segments they belong to. I.e. when searching for //paris//, the capital of France will appear in the places section while Geneviève <de Paris> will appear in the persons section. |
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| The CERL Thesaurus comes with a complex index that allows for sophisticated searches. The following search fields are available: | Click on a record to display the full information or click on the clipboard symbol to add that record to your [[#clipboard|clipboard]] in order to consult it at a later point in time or download it. |
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| ^ field ^ Fields ^ Description ^ | Clicking **More Search Options** opens an extended form from which you may select even more categories to search in. (You may close this form by clicking "Fewer Search Options".) |
| | active_in | 515$3 \\ with $0 'actv','resd','teac','schl','stud' or 'trad' | id of a place of activity of an entity \\ ''active_in:cnl00028786'' | | |
| | address | 515$a$d$e$r | search within the address of an entity \\ ''address:"Kerk-straat"'' | | |
| | based_in | 515$3 \\ with $0 'dioc' | id of the place a diocese or parish is based in \\ ''based_in:cnl00014398'' | | |
| | born_in | 515$3 \\ with $0 'brth' | id of the place a person was born in \\ ''born_in:cnl00008322'' | | |
| | child_of | 500$3 \\ with $0 'ex:hasParent' | id of a person who is a parent to another person | | |
| | collaborator_of | 500$3,510$3 \\ with $0 'ex:hasCollaborator' | id of a person or printer who has worked together with another person or printer | | |
| | corporateName | 212$a$b$e$r, 412$a$b$e$r | name (heading or variant) of a corporate entity (word) \\ ''corporateName:university'' | | |
| | corporateName.orig | 212$a$b$e$r, 412$a$b$e$r | name (heading or variant) of a corporate entity (phrase) | | |
| | dedup | 001c/p0-2 \\ with 831#1 present in the record | type of a record that is marked for deduplication \\ ''dedup:cnl'' | | |
| | died_in | 515$3 \\ with $0 'deat' | id of a place where a person died | | |
| | duplicate_of | 831#1$a | id of a record that could be a duplicate of another record | | |
| | external_id | 801$b$c | ID from an external file \\ ''external_id:gnd'' or ''external_id:(gnd 1029934118)'' | | |
| | feature | 956, 516 | a certain feature/chunk of information of a record \\ ''prdv'' Printers' Devices \\ ''prov'' Provnance Information \\ ''imag'' Image \\ feature:prdv | | |
| | gender | 120$a | a person's or printer's gender (code) \\ ''a'' female \\ ''b'' male \\ ''u'' unknown \\ ''gender:a'' | | |
| | has_member | 512$3 \\ with $0 'ex:isMemberOf' | id of a corporate body that has members | | |
| | id | 001, 035$z | CERL Thesaurus ID \\ ''id:cnc00006222'' | | |
| | imprintName | 210$a$b$e$r, 410$f$a$b$e$r | a name of a printer/bookseller etc. (heading or variant) (word) \\ ''imprintName:sermartelli'' | | |
| | imprintName.orig | 210$a$b$e$r, 410$f$a$b$e$r | a name of a printer/bookseller etc. (heading or variant) (phrase) | | |
| | last_changed | 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 | 515$3 \\ with $0 'resd' | id of a place where a person lived | | |
| | location | 123$d$f | Geographic coordinates of a place | | |
| | name | 200/210/212/215$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 | 200/210/212/215$a$b$e$r, 400/410/412/415$f$a$b$e$r | name of an entity (phrase). This index is a combination of personalName.orig, imprintName.orig, corporateName.orig and placeName.orig | | |
| | note | 300$a,350$a,356$a | a general note, activity note or geographic note \\ ''note:printer'' | | |
| | parent_of | 500$3 \\ with $0 'ex:hasChild' | id of a person that is the child of another person | | |
| | placeName | 215$a$e$r, 415$a$e$r | name (heading or variant) of a place (word) \\ ''placeName:hamburg'' | | |
| | placeName.orig | 215$a$e$r, 415$a$e$r | name (heading or variant) of a place (phrase) | | |
| | personalName | 200$a$b$e$r, 400$f$a$b$e$r | name (heading or variant) of a person (word) \\ personalName:aristoteles | | |
| | personalName.orig | 200$a$b$e$r, 400$f$a$b$e$r | name (heading or variant) of a person (phrase) \\ personalName:aristoteles | | |
| | predecessor_of | 500/510/512$3 | id of the entity that is the successor of another entity | | |
| | record_flag | 830$6 | a specific record marker \\ ''record_flag:ba18'' | | |
| | related_to | 500/510/512/515$3 | id of a record related to another record (backlinks) \\ ''related_to:cnl00032270'' | | |
| | school_in | 515$3 \\ with $0 'schl' | id of a place where a person visited a school | | |
| | sign | 516$a$n | description of a sign/marks/device etc \\ ''sign:tortuga'' | | |
| | spouse_of | 500$3 \\ with $0 'ex:hasSpouse' | id of a person that has been married to another person | | |
| | studied_in | 515$3 \\ with $0 'stud' | id of a place where a person visited a university | | |
| | subordinate_to | 512$3 \\ with $0 'ex:hasSuperiorHierarchicalLevel' | id of a corporate entity that has a sub division | | |
| | successor_of | 500/510/512$3 \\ with $0 'ex:hasPredecessor' | id of an entity that is a predecessor to another entity | | |
| | superior_to | 512$3 \\ with $0 'ex:hasSubordinateHierarchicalLevel' | id of a corporate entity that is a sub-division of another corporate entity | | |
| | tought_in | 515$3 \\ with $0 'teac' | id of a place where a person was teaching (e.g. at a school or university) | | |
| | traded_in | 515$3 \\ with $0 'trad' | id of a place where another entity conducted business | | |
| | type | 001c/p0-2 | record type \\ type:cnp | | |
| | visited | 515$3 \\ with $0 'vist' | id of a place a person has visited | | |
| | year_end | 340$x | search for entities whose activity or existence ended before, in or after a certain year \\ ''year_end:>1800'' \\ year_end:<1500 | | |
| | year_start | 340$x | search for entities whose activity or existence started before, in or after a certain year \\ ''year_start:[1530 TO 1560]'' | | |
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| | The use of **Boolean search operators** is not supported. If you enter more than one search term, the system will combine them by a logical //AND//. Phrase search is not supported either. For searching an exact name form, use the [[#browsing|index browse lists]]. |
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| ===== Query Syntax ===== | Right **Truncation** is possible by adding a question mark (**?**) to the search term. |
| 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: | |
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| * ''name:hamburg'' the term //hamburg// should appear in the //name:// field | You may **sort** your search results either alphabetically or chronologically. Please note that records without biographical dates will sort at the end of a set when chronological sorting is applied. |
| * ''personalName:(visser jacob)'' the terms //visser// and //jacob// should appear in the //personalName:// field in any order, regardless if adjacent or not | |
| * ''imprintName:"sermartelli e fratelli"'' the terms //sermartelli e fratelli// should appear in the //imprintName:// field in exactly this order | |
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| The fields named **.orig** contain the original field's content as a phrase, case-sensitive, diacritics are not replaced: | You may always **return to your last search result set** by clicking //Search// in the navigation bar on the right. |
| * ''imprintName.orig:"Bartolommeo Sermartelli e fratelli, Firenze"'' | |
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| Search fields of the type **date** allow for range searches: | ===Examples of searching for names=== |
| | ==(Personal or Imprint names)== |
| | **1.** Forms used as entry forms by one of the contributing libraries are indexed as they are, without any further additions etc. For example: |
| | <code> |
| | 1 budapest |
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| | or |
| | <code> |
| | 1 ribalta, francisco |
| | </code> |
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| | **2.** Variant or fictional name forms are followed by an equals sign and the first (in alphabetical order) heading form. For example: |
| | <code> |
| | 1 zagrabia = agram |
| | </code> |
| | or |
| | <code> |
| | 1 ribadeneira, petrus = ribadeneyra, pedro |
| | </code> |
| | ==(Personal names only)== |
| | **3.** A name form comprising non-sorting elements will be indexed [a] without the non-sorting elements, [b] with the non-sorting elements as a part of the first name and [c] with the non-sorting elements as a part of the last name. For example: |
| | <code> |
| | 1 bergen, paulus |
| | 1 bergen, paulus von |
| | 1 von bergen, paulus |
| | </code> |
| | **4.** Names containing additons (filing qualifiers) are indexed with the addition following the name and without. For example: |
| | <code> |
| | 1 parker, matthew archbishop of canterbury |
| | 2 parker, matthew |
| | </code> |
| | **5.** Names that consist only of a single name form (i.e. the first name) and an addition to the name or a filing qualifier will be indexed with and without the addition and - unless the addition contains a numeration of any kind - with the addition in the place of the last name. For example: |
| | <code> |
| | >100 johannes |
| | 2 johannes damascenus |
| | 1 damascenus, johannes |
| | </code> |
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| * ''last_changed:[2017-05-1 TO 2017-05-31]'' all records that have last been edited //in May 2017// | -> [[http://thesaurus.cerl.org|Back to the CERL Thesaurus web interface]] |
| * ''year_start:<1600'' all entities that were born or started their activity //before the year 1600//. | |
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| 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. | |
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| * ''year_start:<1600 AND feature:prdv'' all records where the activity/birth date is before 1600 and that contain descriptions of printers devices | |
| * ''name:sermartelli AND name:(bartolomeo OR michelangelo)'' all records where the name field contains //Sermartelli// and either //Bartolomeo// or //Michelangelo//. | |
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| **Truncation/Wildcards** can be used as well. Please that using wildcards will slow down the response time remarkably. | |
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| * ''?'' replaces exactly one character | |
| * ''*'' replaces any number or characters including zero | |
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| ===== 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. | |
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| For example: Knowing the ID for the place "Tübingen", we can retrieve persons who went to university here: ''studied_in:cnl00014526'' | |
