Search Areas

There are five search areas to access to the records of the Pascal and Francis databases, corresponding each to a strategy implementing specific functionalities.

Simple Search
You can access to the Simple Search mode from the home page, through a simple input field.
The search is performed by entering words or characters, and applies at the same time on all metadata fields.
This simple search area is also available when displaying the results of a search, and also on the page displaying a detailed record.
See : Simple Search

Advanced Search
You can access to this mode from the main menu.
The search is here performed on selected metadata fields, with

• a simple input field for each desired metadata
• operators allowing to combine the criteria before starting search

See : Advanced Search

Expert Search
You can access to this mode from a link in the Advanced Search page.
The search is here performed by entering a query which will be directly sent to the search engine (Elasticsearch) which was used to index the bibliographic records of the collection, without any transformation.
In order to learn about the query language, see : Expert Search

Search by Classification
You can access to the Search by Classification mode from the main menu.
The strategy is based here on browsing in the classification plans of the bases, from the visualization of one or more classification codes, with their title and hierarchy.
From a given code, you can start a search to find all the records which have been enriched with this classification code.
See : Search by Classification

Search by Vocabulary
You can access to the Search by Vocabulary mode from the main menu.
The strategy is here, as a first step, to query vocabularies to select a term, view the detail of the associated concept, then to create a small search equation.
The equation can be augmented by the search of a second term, and so on.
As a second step, once this equation is entirely established, you can start a search on the documentary collection, possibly selecting the concerned metadata.
See : Search by Vocabulary