Contents
- Introduction
- Credits
- Using this Manual
Getting Started (PDF 204KB)
- Preparing to describe your Collections
- What is a Collection?
- What is a Collection Description?
- Example of a Description of a Physical Collection
- Example of a Description of a Digital Collection
- Why are Collection Descriptions Important?
- What you will need
-
The Collection Description Services
(PDF 100KB)
- About Cornucopia and MICHAEL
- Becoming a Registered User
- Logging on
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Before you begin (PDF 57KB)
- Order of creating records
- Free text descriptions
-
Your Institution
(PDF 72KB)
- Your institution
- Address details
-
Cornucopia - describing Physical Collections
(PDF 64KB)
- Step 1 - Deciding between Basic or Full Descriptions
- Step 2 - Collection Title Screen
- Step 3 - Main Collection Description Form
- Step 4 - Completing your record
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MICHAEL - Digital collections, Services and Projects
(PDF 200KB)
- Describing Digital Collections
- Step 1 - Identification and Description
- Step 2 - Subject Indexing
- Step 3 - Illustrations
- Step 4 - Completing your record
- Describing Services and Products
- Step 1 - Identification and Description
- Step 2 - Access
- Step 3 - Access conditions and location
- Step 4 - Completing your record
- Describing Projects
- Step 1 - Project
- Step 2 - Completing your record
- Links between Records in MICHAEL
-
Validating and Publishing records
(PDF 40KB)
-
Updating your records
(PDF 25KB)
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Glossary
- Reference shelf
-
Institution Server Guide
(PDF 71KB)
- Functionality
- Searching for an existing record
- Search results listing
- Viewing institution details
- Editing an existing record
- Editing an existing institution address
- Creating a new institution record
- Creating a new address
- Relationships between records
- Marking an existing record for deletion
-
MICHAEL platform guide
(PDF 526KB)
- Logging in and logging out
- Homepage
- Workspace
- My queries (workspace)
- My shortcuts
- New records
- Search zone
- Browsing important folders
- Browsing within a folder
- Browsing from a record
- Record management tasks
- Publishing a record
- Creating a new folder and deleting folders
- Default folders in the MICHAEL database
- Creating and editing records
- Shortcuts to create a record
- Modifying an existing record
- Copying an existing record
- Standard widgets on the data input forms
- Navigating between pages
- Standard features of the data input forms
- Standard fields
- Text zones
- Lists
- Calendar
- Links or relations
- Record Summary page
- System metadata
- Concepts and terms
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