Help:Main

Major updates

• 31/7/2023 - we are working on / importing / checking the manual for users. Feel free to give some feedback.
• 30/7/2023 - The manuafacturer type of information has been moved as a subclass under an new type of information Business. This gives us the possibility to use different types of businesses like "architectoral firms", "publishers", "rental companies", ...
• 27/7/2023 - we added a new feature: Themes that can be used by researchers or people working on an article or paper to bring all their information together.

Update archive - Minor updates

Introduction for readers

• Introduction
• Structure
• Finding your way

Information for content creators

An important message before you start:

Don’t read this manual 

Most chapters are meant for reference when you are working. But it is good to read the pages about the Structure and Finding your way. If you want to add and edit information, if you want to contribute, it is good to read the pages below and make yourself familiar with the structures of the pages.

• Adding and editing information
• Uploading documents, audio, video, ...
• Adding and editing wikipages
• Preparing Bulk import
• Editor tools

Pages based on type of information

• Building (In progress)
• Business (Checked)
• Collection (Checked)
• Document (To Do)
• Equipment (Checked)
• Event (Checked)
• Geographic area (Checked)
• Method (In progress)
• Organisation (Checked)
• Performance (Checked)
• Person (Checked
• Source (Checked)
• Term (Checked)
• Time frame (Checked)

Standardised pages

These are pages that need specific information for the good functioning of the system.

Language pages

Value lists

Overview pages

• Field pages

• Person overview page

Projects

This page contains a lot of "things to do" about developping content. It is meant for content creators that get out of inspiration ;-)

To Do Content

Collection pages

These pages contain information about documenting, safeguarding and restoring sources, equipment and other artefacts in collections.

• Collection policies
  • https://www.ne-mo.org/news/article/nemo/toolkit-on-ethical-transfer-reuse-and-disposal-of-museum-collections.html

• Documenting
  • Invulboek objecten een handboek met beschrijvingsregels voor het documenteren van erfgoedobjecten in een collectiebeheersysteem.
  • CEST standaarden bij het creëren, beheren en toegankelijk maken van digitale erfgoedcollecties
  • GETTY Art & Architecture Thesaurus® Online

• • 3D Scanning
  • recording livingheritage

• • Geomapping
    • https://maps.nls.uk/

• • Visualising
    • https://www.visualthesaurus.com

• Cleaning and safeguarding
  • Vinyl Records
  • Media Preservation (from Museum of Obsolate media) including a method to define risk on Obsolescence Ratings and Media Stability Ratings.

Developer pages

These pages are meant for the team that maintains the structure, makes mass inports, etc.

• Item properties for developpers
• property pages
• maintenance procedures
• Tools
• Interoperability (In progress)
• Taxonomies and standardised language

• usefull queries (To Do)
• service properties (To Do)
• obsolate properties (To Do)

Projects

These pages contain short and long time projects to improve the quality or the richness of the database.

• To do
• Issues to solve (You can add here issues you encounter in the database)

Previous versions

File:Manual CanonBase v3.pdf

Old content Help pages

see old Help pages