Help:Editor tools

Help index

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The list below are tools that proved usefull and valid when working on content of the Canonbase.

Wiki markup cheat sheet

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet the basic codes for editing a wikipage.

References

• https://www.wikidata.org the main wikidata platform

Terminology

• https://www.oed.com The historical English Oxford dictionary

ISBN

• https://isbnsearch.org looking up books based on their ISBN or keywords

Books

• https://web.archive.org/ contains milions of (scanned) books with proper referencing. You can download in different formats or link to a viewer.
• https://worldcat.org/ to search information about books

Newspapers and magazines

• https://news.google.com/newspapers
• https://www.worldradiohistory.com a big collection of radio and audio magazines

Manuals

• https://www.manualslib.com a large collection of manuals, including technical theatre manuals.
• https://lightspares.com a large collection of manuals, spec sheets, blow-up drawings, ... from a spare parts sales company.
• https://www.hifiengine.com sound equipment manuals
• https://www.opweb.de/ sound equipment and measuring tools
• https://archives.doctsf.com/documents/ sound equipment

Websites

• https://web.archive.org/ The wayback machine gives you the opportunity to look at an existing or disapeared website and go back in time to see sprevious versions of the site and recover old material. (You can add the tool also to your browser.)

Visual information

• https://balat.kikirpa.be (Belgium)
• https://onb.digital/ (Austria)
• https://www.europeana.eu

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (Wiki commons, a large collection of open source pictures and videos)

Media types

• https://obsoletemedia.org/ (all kind of Audio, video en data media.)

Audio

• https://www.soundsofchanges.eu/sound/1920s-stage-wind-machine/ (sounds)

Patents

• https://patents.google.com a Google search engine for patents
• https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/ free access to over 140 million patent documents
• https://data.inpi.fr French patent database connected to le Bulletin officiel de la propriété industrielle

Telephone numbers

• Berlin
  • Die Berliner Telefonbücher von 1881 bis 1902 https://historische-telefonbuecher.de/
  • Telephone Directories Berlin | Names | 1908-1953 https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/cms/145/
  • Telephone Directories Berlin West | Namen | 1954-1991 https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/cms/146/

Queries

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata SPARQL_tutorial a tutorial for SPARQL queries
• https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/ SPARQL tutorial from the W3 consortium