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======CERL Thesaurus Help====== | ======CERL Thesaurus Help====== | ||
+ | ===== Searching ===== | ||
+ | {{thesaurus11.png? | ||
- | ==== Full text search | + | The records that match your search |
- | {{ : | + | |
- | Probably | + | |
- | As a default your search result will be grouped the types of entities it contains: Corporate Names, Imprint Names, Places and Persons. Each group will display | + | Click on a record to display the full information or click on the clipboard symbol to add that record |
- | You may click a heading in these list to access | + | |
- | Clicking | + | Clicking |
- | To bookmark a record, click the bookmark icon in the top right corner | + | 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 [[# |
+ | Right **Truncation** is possible by adding a question mark (**?**) to the search term. | ||
- | ==== Limiting and sorting | + | You may **sort** |
+ | You may always **return to your last search result set** by clicking //Search// in the navigation bar on the right. | ||
- | If your search yields too many hits, you can reduce the size of your resultset using one of the limiting options in the right column of the result screen. | + | ===Examples |
- | + | ==(Personal or Imprint names)== | |
- | The option " | + | **1.** Forms used as entry forms by one of the contributing libraries |
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- | {{ : | + | |
- | + | </ | |
- | The limit "by feature" | + | or |
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- | The search results are by default sorted alphabetically. If you want to consult them in chronological order, you may do so by clicking " | + | |
- | + | </ | |
- | ==== Using search keys ==== | + | \\ |
- | + | **2.** Variant | |
- | You may formulate more complex queries using the following search keys in the search box. A search key must always be followed | + | < |
- | + | 1 zagrabia = agram | |
- | Truncation is possible by adding an asterisk (*) to the search term. To search for phrases, put those in quotation marks ("). | + | </ |
- | + | or | |
- | |address|search within the address of an entity \\ '' | + | < |
- | |corporateName|search only within the names (headings and variants) of corporate entities \\ '' | + | 1 ribadeneira, petrus = ribadeneyra, |
- | |dedup|search for records marked for deduplication (see below) \\ '' | + | </ |
- | |external_id|search for IDs from external files \\ '' | + | ==(Personal names only)== |
- | |feature|search for records with certain features | + | **3.** A name form comprising non-sorting elements will be indexed [a] without |
- | |gender|search for persons | + | < |
- | |id|search for a CERL Thesaurus ID \\ '' | + | |
- | |imprintName|search only within | + | |
- | |last_changed|search for records last changed at a certain date or within a certain time period \\ '' | + | 1 von bergen, paulus |
- | |name|search only within name fields \\ '' | + | </ |
- | |note|search | + | **4.** Names containing additons |
- | |placeName|search only within | + | < |
- | |personalName|search only within | + | |
- | |record_flag|search for records bearing a specific marker \\ '' | + | 2 parker, matthew |
- | |related_to|search for records that link to the given record id. There is a number | + | </ |
- | |sign|search within the sign/ | + | **5.** Names that consist only of a single name form (i.e. the first name) and an addition |
- | |type|search for a certain record type \\ type:cnp| | + | < |
- | |year_end|search for entities whose activity or existence ended before, in or after a certain year \\ '' | + | >100 johannes |
- | |year_start|search for entities whose activity or existence started before, in or after a certain year \\ '' | + | 2 johannes damascenus |
- | + | 1 damascenus, johannes | |
- | a complete list of available search keys can be found here: [[indexing]] | + | </ |
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- | ==== Working with the Search History ==== | + | |
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- | The last 20 searches you have performed | + | |
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- | The search history is associated with the current session. If you don't do anything in the web interface for more than two hours, logout or if you clear your browser cookies, the session will be terminated and the search history will be no longer available. Data associated with terminated sessions is deleted from the server after 24 hours. | + | |
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- | ==== Browsing alphabetical indexes ==== | + | |
- | {{ : | + | |
- | You may search for names of places, corporate bodies, printers, persons and entities for which provenance information is available by using alphabetical browse lists. They are available from the item " | + | |
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- | Select an alphabetical browse list from the dropdown and type the first few characters of your search term into the field next to it and hit " | + | |
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- | The number at the left of each entry indicates | + | |
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help/thesaurus/searching.txt · Last modified: 2018/09/12 16:21 by jahnke