Alexandria Digital Library
'97-'98
Login
- Register to use the system
- Choose a username and password to access ADL
Map
- Pan and zoom a 2D world map to locate area(s) of interest
- Define query region by clicking and dragging, or choose footprints
- Remove defined search region by clicking bounding box perimeter
- Zoom in/out view area 2x with each click on the map
Search: Collections
- Set query parameters corresponding to "search buckets"
- Search Buckets include: Location, Type Is, Available As, Freetext, Originator, Identifier, and Date
- "Catalog" searches the online and offline items held by the UCSB Map and Imagery Library
- "Gazetteer" searches 6,000,000 place name records
Search: Query Parameters
- Display user-selected query region(s) on the Map
- Choose matching operations such as date, type, originator, ID
- Limit the formats of items to be returned
Workspace
- Manipulate query results
- Re-sort by any of the columns of information
- Save workspace to disk and restore in a later session
Metadata Browser
- Display metadata about citation, abstract & terms, holding format, access information, spatial information, and other details of creation
- Write currently displayed metadata to local drive or email it
- Print metadata
- Retrieve parent record if available
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