Thesaurus Management Documentation

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Quick Start

Browsing Thesaurus

1. Go to the Thesaurus main page.

2. Click on the desired dictionary (e.g., Provenance).

   

3. Navigate to the record of interest (e.g., R'as al-Basit).

   

   Note

   At this point, you can inspect relations between available items.

4. Inspect a record of interest by clicking on the internal blue identifier of a subject.

   

5. After clicking, Thesaurus opens the site associated with the selected record.

   

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Editing Contents

1. Browse Thesaurus to find the desired subject.

2. Click on the "edit" button with pencil icon.

   Login before editing

   Editing contents requires prior logging in. Further instructions here.

   

3. Modify contents and click "save" after completing the change.

   

4. Wait for changes to be saved which is indicated by the reappearance of the "edit" button.

   

   Modifiable elements and non-modifiable elements

   You can modify:

   • Descriptive Label
   • Item Description
   • Aliases/alternative names

   • Labels, Descriptions and Aliases in different languages

     (available: English (EN), Polish (PL), Greek (EL), German (DE), French (FR))

   • Properties of an Item:

     • To modify content of existing property use second ""edit" button with pencil icon.
     • To add new property, select "add statements" with plus icon, choose desired property.

   You cannot modify:

   • Item Identifier (Q followed by a number).

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Adding New Content

1. Selecting the Target Dictionary

   On the "Main page" in the "Dictionaries" section, there are New [dictionary name] links for creating a new item for each dictionary.

2. Login and Tool Authorization

   The tool requires authorization, which is initiated via the "Log in to save!" button in the top right corner of the form.

   Note

   You will be redirected to the Mare Nostrum Wiki login page, and then to the OAuth page, where authorization is granted by clicking the "Allow" button at the bottom of the message.

   Note

   OAuth authorization requires prior login.

3. Filling in Data

   • Labels (required) – the name of the item being added in English

   • Also known as – alternative names for the item

   • Descriptions – a short description of the item to distinguish it from others

   • Subclass of/Part of – the parent element for the item being added

4. Saving

   Once filled out correctly, the "Create new item" button will appear at the bottom of the page. This initiates saving the item to the database.

   During the save process, a "Creating item..." message will be displayed. Upon successful creation, the "Last items created" section will appear at the bottom of the page with a link to the newly added item.

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Downloading Content

1. Browse Thesaurus to find items of interest.

2. Select the checkboxes next to them.

   Note

   To select all values, check the parent item.

   

3. Move to the top of the page and click "Download selected as Arches format".

   Note

   As a result, a wikidata_export.rdf file will be downloaded. You can import it to Arches.

   

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Elements of the Item page