Search
Please note that ICA-AtoM is no longer actively supported by Artefactual Systems.
Visit https://www.accesstomemory.org for information about AtoM, the currently supported version.
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Basic search
Use the Search box to find records in ICA-AtoM that contain text matching any keyword or phase. The Search box is available on every screen for every user.
1. Enter search text in the Search box.
2. Click the Search button.
3. ICA-AtoM searches all fields in all archival descripitons and returns matches on a Search results screen (list). This shows:
- The number of descriptions found.
- For each match, the description title and the first three lines of the "Scope and content" field.
4. Click a title to view the full description (routes you to the record's View screen).
Limitations:
- You can only search archival descriptions; you cannot currently search authority records, archival institutions, or terms.
- You cannot save the search results.
- There is no Advanced search screen. But see below for advanced search techniques that can be used in the basic Search box.
Future releases of ICA-AtoM (post-1.0) will address these limitations.
Advanced search
ICA-AtoM uses the Zend framework's implementation of the the Lucene search engine. This provides a number of options for advanced searching from within the Search box.
- You can broaden your search by entering more than one word; ICA-AtoM will return any record that contains text matching any one of the words; it does not require the record to contain all of the words (e.g. entering city hall will return any description that includes the word "city" or the word "hall" anywhere in any field).
- Use double quotation marks ("") around text to search on phrases (e.g. entering "city hall" will return only descriptions that include the words "city hall" together in that order in any field.
Last revised: 3 June 2008 (ICA-AtoM v0.6)