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 restauring sources, equipment and other artifacts in collections.

• Vinyl Records

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)

• 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)

Old content Help pages

see old Help pages