HOW TO SEARCH
Step 1: Select your preferred language by clicking the "globe" icon (top right corner, next to the "i" icon/shortcut).
Step 2: Choose your search options according to the instructions below.
Home Page Resources
NOTE: Whenever you need to return to the home page, click the FIDENE logo (top left corner of the page).
1.1 Selecting predefined information categories under "Browse" (left side of the page):
Archival Description: Provides units of documentary description, primarily fonds or collections, with information used to identify, manage, locate, and explain archival documents, their production context, and the archival system. It also displays other types of holdings, such as museum collections, if records exist.
Authority Record: Provides names and identities of corporate bodies, persons, or families named in an access point related to an archival description unit.
Archival Institution: Provides records of custodial institutions responsible for preservation and dissemination. On this platform, the Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana (MADP) is displayed.
Functions: Provides records of functions of corporate bodies associated with the production and maintenance of the archives/fonds represented in the descriptions. It also displays subdivisions like sub-functions, operational procedures, activities, tasks, or transactions.
Subjects: Provides terms/keywords registered in archival descriptions (Controlled Vocabulary).
Places: Provides spatial location information registered in archival descriptions.
Digital Object: (A digital object consists of a file composed of a medium that records logical encodings of its bits, with content, a unique identifier, and associated metadata). Provides digital files stored on the platform, which are related to archival descriptions. These can be generated by reproduction (digital representative or copy of an analog document) or be born-digital files (formats created in a digital environment, such as original digital camera photos or computer-generated text documents).
1.2 "Popular this week": By clicking on one of the titles displayed in the list of most accessed/consulted records (left side, below "Browse").
1.3 Selecting a documentary set (fonds or collection): Through the Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana under "Archival Institution."
1.4 Searching within a documentary set: After selecting a set below the MADP icon, go to the "Holdings" tab on the left, select the "Quick Search" tab, and type a keyword in the text box.
SIMPLE SEARCH TOOL
Accessible from the home page via the text box and the "Browse" option (top left corner, next to the institutional logo).
2.1 Text box: Type the keyword of interest or the document registration code.
2.2 "Browse" option: Select one of the predefined categories: Archival Description, Authority Record, Archival Institution, Functions, Subjects, Places, or Digital Object.
ADVANCED SEARCH TOOL
Accessible via the "magnifying glass" icon next to the search box and "Browse" option.
3.1 Facet list and Results list: The facet list (left side) shows expandable fields that act as filters. Selecting them restricts the records shown in the results list (center of the page).
3.2 Advanced search options (above results): Allows for specific and complex searches using multiple fields, search arguments, Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), and filters. Select your options and click "Search." To start over, click "Reset."
QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
If you have questions on how to search or wish to contribute with suggestions, please email us at: madppesquisa@unijui.edu.br