How to type ?
Typing in upper case or lower case gives the same result.
The accents are ignored. Quiles is equivalent to Quilès.
Persons' name
They are written as :
surname, given name.
In the rwandan case, they are written :
rwandan_name, christian_name.
To query on authors, using the character * replaces any omitted characters.
For example :
Quilès gives no answer
Quilès* gives answers because it equals
Quilès, Paul
*Quentin* equals
Saint-Quentin, Grégoire (de)
Dates
They are written with eight digits in the form
yyyymmdd.
For example :
19940407 for April 7, 1994.
The date may be right-truncated. For example :
Begin date = 1994041,
End date = (nothing) selects dates between April 10, 1994 and April 19, 1994.
If
begin date and
end date are truncated they must have the same length.
For example
Begin date = 1990,
End date = 1994 selects
documents with
date between
19900000 and
19940000.
Dropdown menus
Typing the first characters of a word position in the list on a word which
begins with that characters.
Searching anywhere
Entering one or two words
word1 and
word2.
The truncation character '*' is not accepted here.
Documents with
word1 AND
word2 in any field are selected.
Searching on several fields
You can choose several conditions on specified fields.
These conditions are linked by a logical AND.
For example, if you choose :
Author = Quilès*,
Begin date = 1998
are selected all documents with author = Quilès,Paul AND date = 1998.
The more conditions are chosen the less documents are selected.
If you choose
Type = photo, you obtain a list of pictures.
Results of a query
In column
Doc at the left appear codes :
- D : Means that a file exists, generally of pdf type.
- C : The file is a geographic map of type pdf, jpeg or png.
- V : The file is a movie (Video).
- P : The file is a picture of type, gif, png or jpeg.
The column Doc gives access to the document.
The column Card gives access to the
index-card of the document (or author entry).
The column Date gives access to the
document and the index-card together.
