Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

November 22, 2016

Egyptological Museum Search

Filed under: History,Museums,Searching — Patrick Durusau @ 5:06 pm

Egyptological Museum Search

From the post:

The Egyptological museum search is a PHP tool aimed to facilitate locating the descriptions and images of ancient Egyptian objects in online catalogues of major museums. Online catalogues (ranging from selections of highlights to complete digital inventories) are now offered by almost all major museums holding ancient Egyptian items and have become indispensable in research work. Yet the variety of web interfaces and of search rules may overstrain any person performing many searches in different online catalogues.

Egyptological museum search was made to provide a single search point for finding objects by their inventory numbers in major collections of Egyptian antiquities that have online catalogues. It tries to convert user input into search queries recognised by museums’ websites. (Thus, for example, stela Geneva D 50 is searched as “D 0050,” statue Vienna ÄS 5046 is searched as “AE_INV_5046,” and coffin Turin Suppl. 5217 is searched as “S. 05217.”) The following online catalogues are supported:

The search interface uses a short list of aliases for museums.

Once you see/use the interface proper, here, I hope you are interested in volunteering to improve it.

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