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ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING
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ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING
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Heurist is designed as a collaborative database containing - in a single database - a wide variety of items, from bibliographic records to internet bookmarks or photographs; from geological samples and museum artefacts to historical events or university courses.
The use of a collaborative database allows people to share information. So, rather than each person reentering similar information in their personal databases, colleagues can share an overlapping set of records in a single database, and can communicate with one another around those records through shared text, discussion and notifications.
Also, by putting all these different types of research material in a single database, they can be linked together so, for example, historical events can reference the books and articles which describe them (and vice versa), but also the people involved, other events, places or objects in museums.
The essential elements of Heurist which you need to understand are:
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A shared description of a real or notional entity, including fields (attributes), textual data, attached files and c See: Records, Record Types, Fields, Detail Types, Bibliographic Data, My Records, All Records, Search All Records |
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A personal bookmark attached to a record which 1. marks the record as of interest to you and 2. allows you to record private information about the record. See: Bookmarks, Search My Bookmarks |
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A connection between any two records in the database. See: Relationships, Relationship Type, Pointers and Relationships, Pointer Fields, Relationship Records, Relationship Type, Dates and Annotation |
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Groups of users who can own and restrict access to specific records for internal use of the group. See: Workgroup, Workgroup Tag, Collaboration, Workgroups, Workgroup Page, Heurist Workgroups, Colleague Groups, Workgroup Tagging, Editing Workgroup Tags, |