URBE MultiWeb Help

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URBE MultiWeb is a gateway to one or more URBE archives.

When searching URBE archives through the MultiWeb, you can access one or more archives at the same time. Archives can be choosen in the MultiWeb configuration page.

When searching with browse, you can display separated, merged or compressed results. See the section display of this page.

Note that UCC cannot be searched at the same time with other archives. The reason is the type of data that are collected in the UCC node: see the URBE archives section of the URBE description page for details.

Search modes

At now, MultiWeb allows you to retrieve records using these types of search:

• browse search
  • It is like searching a paper card catalog, for instance an author or a title card catalog where records are stored in alphabetic order and you access them starting from an entry point you choose.
    Normally you enter the first word of the title or the last name of the author you are looking for. These catalogs are also named authority files.
  • The result of this kind of search is a list of 20 entries of the authority file. Records associated with each entry can be displayed pressing the button.
  • At the bottom of the list, an input field with a preloaded value allows you to restart browsing from another value or to display next 20 records.
  • Every URBE archive allows searching on these authority files:
    • author
    • title
    • series
    • publishers.
  • The UCC archive doesn't have the publishers authority file.
• find search
  • This search mode allows to retrieve records on a word basis. The user enters some words and records containing these words will be displayed in a short format (92).
  • Only one URBE base at a time can be searched in find mode.
  • Searches that satisfie more than 200 hits will not display any record.
  • A detailed help is available.
• direct search
  • This search type allows you to retrieve a single record specifing its system number. You can choose among these display formats:
    • ISBD format (35)
    • full record in tabular format (01)
    • short form (92)
    • short form with location (94)

Display Modes

Authority files, i.e. the results of a browse search, can be displayed in various formats:

• separated
  • 5 entries for every archive are displayed;
  • at the bottom, an input filed allows you to "more or restart" from another value of the same authority file;
• merged
  • 20 entries from every archive are retrieved by the MultiWeb server, but only the first 20 are displayed after sorting and merging;
  • an input field allows you to "more or restart" from another value of the same authority file of the same archives;
• compressed
  • this option allows the display of a virtual union catalog of two or more archives;
  • 20 entries are displayed; if two or more entries have the same key for indexing, they are grouped into one entry;
  • this display mode is very similar to browse the UCC archive;
  • an input field allows you to "more or restart" from another value of the same authority file of the same archives.

Records from an authority files are displayed in a short format (92). You can press the button to expand every record in the ISBD format (35).

Records of UCC are displayed with links to the original records stored in the URBE archive they come from. If present, press the button to see the full record. If no link is present, this means that the URBE archive is not (yet) connected to the MultiWeb gateway.

A direct search displays a record in the format you choosed. From a record displayed in full format (01), you can switch to the ISBD format (35) and viceversa.