MiDATABANK DOCUMENTS AND GUIDES
UPDATING RESOURCES MASTER LIST
Keeping your Resources Master List up-to-date
Ever since the first release of MiDatbank version 1, the intention has been to provide a facility
to enable the Sources Master List to be automatically updated from a core list maintained on
the MiDatabank web-site (www.midatabank.info). This would
MANAGING RESOURCES AT YOUR CENTRE
Managing MiDatabank resources at your centre comprises two steps:
- Keeping the master list up-to-date
- Updating the resources available at your centre
Step 1 - Keeping the master list up-to-date
ADDING A NEW MI CATEGORY
One of the main tenets behind the MiDatabank model is that there is the concept of database-wide settings (e.g. Master Lists), and also centre specific settings. In many cases, this distinction can be blurred because there is only one centre in the database. However, the distinction is necessary in order to enable a scalable system suitable for small organisations up to large multi-
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DEFINING A STANDARD SEARCH PATTERN
A SSP is simply a ranked list of sources (e.g. books and urls) that are suitable for answering a
particular category of enquiry. SSPs employ the collective title for a source rather than specific
editions of a source. For example, a SSP would use ‘BNF’ rather than ‘BNF September 2009
Number 58’.
Although MiDatabank has SSPs