Assisted searching

The CERL Thesaurus functions as a tool for assisted searching in the HPB Database and the CERL Portal.

Users need not enter all variant forms of names as separate search terms, but may retrieve all variant forms from the CERL Thesaurus, and automatically apply all variant forms as search terms in the HPB Database or the CERL Portal.
Assisted Searching on Imprint Places (via RLG’s Eureka on the Web display) was implemented to great acclaim in Autumn 2001.
After migration of the HPB Database (scheduled for September 2007), the facility wil also be made available in OCLC's FirstSearch environment.



In the CERL Portal, Assisted Searching on both Personal Names and Imprint Names has already been implemented.

CERL is happy to offer other projects and/or organisations the use of the CERL Thesaurus to help with searching in databases or portals they have developed. To aid such an implementation, CERL has recently developed an SRU interface. Organisations, libraries or projects that wish to use the CERL Thesaurus should contact the CERL Secretariat.