Dyabola Archäologische Bibliographie Realkatalog (DAI) Searching by site or place name Bibliotheken...

DyabolaArchäologische Bibliographie

Realkatalog (DAI)

Searching by site or place name

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Dyabola: searching by site or place name

- In this demo we search the Archäologische Bibliographie (aktualisierte Version des Realkatalogs). The Zugangsverzeichnis des Deutschen Archäologischen Institutes Madrid works on the same principle

- This demo uses the English version

The simple way

Troje

7 hits

And you do not find any language variants : Troy, Trojans, etc.

Search again

This way you find all words containing trojein the title or author field

This example yields many irrelevant titles

Troy

301 hits containing troy in words from the title or author

If necessary perform another search with troj

The advanced way

Click the + next to

topography

Click the + next to countries - regions - sites

Scroll down to Turkey

Type Tro with a capital letter

Tro

In principle, the spelling is that of the country where the town or site is

(Köln, Venezia, Den Haag, etc.)

Troia = Troje

254 publications

on Troy

This result contains relevant titles

in all languages

TIP: if it is hard to find the correct place name, try to find a relevant title and look under

the tab subjects

SummaryThe simple way via Search

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

The advanced way via Browse Tree of Subject Headings• Select Topography; countries - regions - sites;

then country• Type (part of) the name of the place or site• Note: use the place or site name as used by

Dyabola• The titles found this way are relevant,

irrespective of the language of the article