DyabolaArchäologische Bibliographie

Römisch-Germanischen

Kommission (RGK)

Searching by site or place name

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Dyabola: searching by site or place name

- In this demo we search the Sachkatalog der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission (RGK) Frankfurt. The Monographien der Bibliographie zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte Europas (RGK) work on the same principle

- This demo uses the English version

The simple wayTroje

20 hits

It finds all words containing troje

in the title or author field

Search again

With many irrelevant titles,and no language variants:

Troy, Trojan, etc.

Troy

141 hits with troy in the title or author field

If necessary perform another seach with

troj

Advanced: Expert Search (1)

Select Topography (Hierarchy)

Do not enter a search term

.

.

Tro

Enter the first letters of the place or site name.

Start with a capital letter.

In principle, the spelling is that of the

country where the town or site is

(Köln, Venezia, Den Haag, etc.)

A listing of titles on Troy

Note: at the bottom is a link to more titles

Advanced: Expert Search (2)

If you already know that Troia is the correct search term for Troy, enter it in the search

window

.

Troia

Then selectTopography (List)

and click start search

TIP : find a relevant title and look under the tab

Klassifikation which subject trees it has

been assigned

It tells you what name is used for a

place or site

SummaryThe simple way via search

• Searches only title and author fields• Language dependent• May give many irrelevant titles

The advanced way via expert search• Use Topography (List) to find a known site or place

name• Topography (Hierarchy) searches via continent /

region / country• Note: use the site or place name as used by

Dyabola • The titles found this way are relevant, irrespective

of the language of the article

TIP : Use search to find a relevant title and see under the tab Klassification which subject trees it has been assigned