The web application Cultural Heritage of the Andalusian Public Universities offers two types of search: by movable heritage or by immovable heritage.
SEARCH MOVABLE HERITAGE
You can enter all or part of the name of the property you are looking for in the field "
Name". The results will display all the registers containing the entry, which may be formed by one or more terms.
Select a province to find the properties located in the province in question, you can also select a municipality.
The fields "
University" and "
Property" are linked up, so when you select a University in particular, the field "
Property" displays the items related to that University.
In the field "
Typology" you can select one or more values. Click "plus (+)" and you will be able to select the desired terms of searching in the emerging window. You can also select these terms through searching the Andalusian Historic Heritage Thesaurus.
You can find the properties dated between two dates of your election through the field "
Chronology".
To search for a single year, fill the first field with the desired year and leave the other one blank.
Click "
Historical periods" if you want to select one or more different historical periods. You can also select these terms through searching the Andalusian Historic Heritage Thesaurus.
You can find the properties related to a school in particular through the field "
Schools". You can also select all the options.
The field "
Iconography" lets you choose one or more options. Click "plus (+)" and you will be able to select the search terms of your election through querying the Andalusian Historic Heritage Thesaurus in the emerging window.
The field "
Author" works in the same way as the field "
Iconography".
The fields "
Materials" and "
Techniques" let you choose one or more options. Click "plus (+)" and you will be able to select the desired search terms through querying the Andalusian Historic Heritage Thesaurus in the emerging window.
SEARCH IMMOVABLE HERITAGE
You can write all or part of the name of the property you are looking for in the field "
Name". The results will display all the registers containing the written entry, which may be formed by one or more terms.
Select a province to find the properties located in the province in question, you can also select a municipality.
You can also search through the field "
University", this will display the list of universities which have properties within the database.
THESAURUS SEARCH
You can search the desired term in two ways: indexed search, writing the first characters of the term in the field "
Search" (in this way the results will be displayed in the window to the left of the screen, with the number of properties included in that term between brackets).
To make a direct selection in the thesaurus tree click "
See the Thesaurus".
If you have selected any term in the left part of the screen and you click "See the Thesaurus" at the same time, the Thesaurus view will focus on the selected term, provided that it's not at the beginning of the list. You can browse the Thesaurus tree, select as many terms as you need clicking over them, and click "Add" in order to add them to the central pane.
You can browse the Thesaurus tree, select as many terms as you need clicking over them, and click "Add" in order to add them to the central pane.
Finally you must click "Send" to add the selected terms to the main searching form (in order to be selected they must be in the central part of the screen).
If you want to clear any of the terms in the central window proceed as this: select the desired term and right after that click "Clear".
The "Generic searching" is checked by default, so the search will include the selected terms as well as all their derived ones.
If you uncheck the generic searching, only the selected terms will be included in the search, but not their derived ones.
ADVANCED SEARCH
The advanced search includes all the fields in the database: name, province, municipality, property, university, typology, historical period, chronology, schools, iconography, author, materials and techniques.
In the same field you can select many items through boolean operators.
Example: The user will be able to search properties that belong to more than one province or to different typologies, and so on.
The searching strategy might be enriched also, combining different fields.
In case you select a field included in the Thesaurus, the "See the Thesaurus" button will appear, so you can select the desired terms in an emerging window.
SEARCH RESULTS
The search results page displays the properties selected with the previously entered search criteria. The list displays the results in different pages, with a maximum of 10 elements per page. You can browse through pages using the navigation controls (previous, following, first and last page) located on the upper right of the screen.
The name, province, municipality and university of each property are displayed, along a thumbnail photo identifying it. If you click over this image you can see a larger version of it.
You can access a more detailed information of each property clicking over its name.
You can select some properties checking the checkbox located near the name and subsequently consult them clicking the "See marked" button. If you click the "See all" button you can access the detailed view of all the properties in the list.
You can also obtain a summarized list of all the properties in PDF format which you can download and save locally or print from your computer. To obtain this list you must click the "Export list" button. The resulting list will contain all the properties, whether they are marked or not.
PROPERTY REPORT
The property report displays complete and detailed information of the selected property. In particular, you will obtain relevant information about the identification, description, analysis and documentation, along different images identifying the property.
You can browse through different selected properties on the search result page using the following, previous, first and last buttons, located on the upper part of the page.
On the property report page you can download a PDF format version, containing the most relevant information of the selected property. In order to obtain this file you must click the "Report" button located on the upper part of the page.
You can also browse the movable properties related to the selected immovable property and vice versa.