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The EPISODES Platform document repository

The IS-EPOS document Repository

is a database of documents, such as peer-reviewed papers, books, theses, technical reports etc, associated with the data, technological/production processes, methodologies and Episodes included in the

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EPISODES web platform.

You are welcome to propose new publications that could be included in the Document Repository - see the last section for instruction how to do this.


Navigating to Document Repository

There are 3 different ways to access the IS-EPOS document EPISODES Platform documents Repository:

  • From the IS-EPOS EPISODES web platform home page, by clicking on the 'Documents' tag, as shown in the left frame of Figure 1 (indicated by a red boxfield). The User has now entered the Home Page of the IS-EPOS document repositoryEPISODES Platform documents.
  • From any of the AH Episodes, by clicking on the 'See more information in Document Repository' at the bottom of the 'Data' section, as indicated in the red box filed in the right frame of Figure 1. The User has now entered the selected Episode's  document repository base (see the 'AH Episodes ' chapter).
  • From any of the Applications provided by the platform, by clicking on the link below 'ReferencesREFERENCES' field, in the Applications Application's description pages (See "see the 'Test User Guide Application" ' chapter). The User has now entered the selected Applications Application's document repository base (see "User Guides for IS-EPOS Applications" Chapterthe Applications chapter).

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Figure 1. Access to the Documents Repository on IS-EPOS EPISODES Platform.
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Document Repository main view

Figure 2 demonstrates how the Document Repository web page looks like within the IS-EPOS platformEPISODES Platform. The 'About' page is shown in Figure 2, containing contact information and useful links, that can be accessed by clicking on the text in blue fonts, found into the green boxes in Figure 2. The choices provided to the User, (tabs in red boxes, indicated by the numbers in Figure 2) are the following:

1) Leads to search repository options (quick and advanced)

2) Leads to 'Browse' page. Items can be browsed by 3)
  1. 'Search Repository' allows for quick (text) search or advanced search based on different parameters (further described in Document search subsection)
  2. 'Browse Repository' provides an alternative search tool, that allows for searching within specific categories of items e.g. Episode, Year, Subject, Creators, Applications references or material acknowledging the
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  1. Information on how-to-cite
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  1. Links to other EPISODES Platform documents including terminology files, data policy documents, this User Guide etc.
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Figure 2. Document Repository web page within the IS-EPOS platform.

The main pages of the Repository are now described in detail.

  •  Home Page: The Home page of IS-EPOS documents, provides some choices to the User:
  • Browse Repository: This page provides an alternative Search tool, which provides specific categories of items (Figure 3). Can also be accessed by 'Browse' tag in the Main page, as shown in Figure 2 (Field 4). Detailed description of this page is given right below.
  • Search Repository: Grants access to the Advanced Search engine. The User may type in the search field at the top of the page for a quick search. Figures 4 and

    EPISODES Platform.

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    Document search

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    Advanced document search

    Figure 4 and Figure 5 show some of the fields that the User may complete for getting access to the items he/she wishes. There are comprehensive instructions of how to fill the fields. These information can be shown/hidden after switch the small blue button at the right of each field from "?" to "-" and vice versa (Figure

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    3.1). The User may also select between "All of" Any of" the inserted terms, by clicking on the small arrow at the left of the filling space. The User can also select terms from specific lists as shown in Figure

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    3.2. He/she may tick box(es) shown in the red frames of Figure

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    3.2, corresponding to the terms written next to those boxes. Additional filtering can be applied by clicking on the arrows shown in the green frames of Figure

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    3.2. Instructions for completing the required fields is always provided after clicking on the question mark tab (blue "?" symbol), at the right hand side of each tab. After all input data have been set, the user may either click on the "Search" button to commit searching , or on the "Reset the form" button to clear all the selected fields (these two buttons are located both at the top and bottom of the screen, e.g. at the top of Figure

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    3.1).

      
  • About this Repository: Leads to a page providing general and contact information about the repository.
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    Figure 3. Available categories to browse the repository by.

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    Figure 41. Advanced search interface - upper part in Documents the Document Repository.


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    Figure 53.2. Advanced search interface- lower part in Documents Repository.

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    Both quick and 'Advanced Search' options (see Figure 2, Field 1 and previous subsection) return results as depicted in Figure 3.3. This contains  additional choices:

    • Field 1. The User may modify the present search or perform a new one by selecting 'Refine search' or 'New search', respectively.
    • Field 2. Select mode of sorting the results. The available options for setting the order of the results are available  after clicking on the small arrow, just before the 'Reorder' tab, and they are:  by year (ascending or descending), by author's name and by document title.
    • Field 3. The list of references can be exported in several different formats, selected from the small arrow just before 'Export' tab, such as ASCII, BibTeX, HTML, just to name a few.
    • Field 4. The results of the search are shown in the screen. Clicking on the blue text in Field 4, Figure 3.3, will lead to the screen similar with the one displayed in Figure 8.
    • Field 5. In the cases where the document is available, clicking on Field 5, will download a .pdf copy of the respective material. 
    Browse Page:
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    Figure 3.3. Search engine results after request for the keyword 'Groningen'.

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    The 'Browse'

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    option (Field 2, Figure 2) gives the user the opportunity to

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    perform a special searching in the repository, by selecting specific categories comprising several fields

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    .  Filtering of items can be done by year, subject, division or author. All of these filtering processes lead to identical searching tools as the one demonstrated right on for the 'subject' case (Figure 64.1). The main category selected here (subject) is further divided into sub-categories, corresponding to more specialised filters of grouping the repository items. The User may click in the links (blue fonts, Figure 64.1) in order to get access to each specific group. The number in the parenthesis indicates the amount of document available in each category.

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    Figure 64.1. Subject categorization of the items in the document repository.


    When selecting one of the given categories, the screen shown in in Figure 7 4.2 appears. First, the list of references can be exported in several different formats, selected from field 1, Figure 74.2, such as ASCII, BibTeX, HTML, just to name a few. The directory selected and its branches are displayed in field 2, Figure 74.2. The User may click in the links (blue text, Figure 64.1) in order to get access to each specific group. The number in the parenthesis indicates the amount of document available in each category. Field 3, Figure 74.2, shows the grouping mode of the items, i.e. 'Item Type', 'Creators' (e.g. authors), etc. In Field 4, Figure 74.2, the User may select among the different types of documents, appended after 'jump to'. The items are classified according to this order and the User can be immediately transferred to a specific category by clicking on one of the links in field 4, Figure 74.2. Finally the User may select any of the items provided to the list (below 'Articles', in Figure 74.2), by clicking on the link indicated by blue text (e.g. the one shown in Field 5, Figure 74.2).

    Access to the previous screen can be obtained after clicking on the "Up a level" tag, shown in the top left corner of Figure 74.2

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    Figure 74.2. Details of Subject Areas->Methodology->Method and processing category.

    Document summary

    Each document in the repository (either found with search or browsing by category) has its own summary page, as displayed in Figure 5Clicking on the blue text in Field 5, Figure 6, will lead to the screen displayed in Figure 8. The title, authors and information on the publication (Journal, issue, etc) is shown together with an abstract. The official DOI and URL are also available (shown in the red boxes, Figure 85), where the User may click in order to visit the official Journal website and download the selected article. Clicking on the links shown in the green panel of Figure 6, will lead the User to previous stages of the Repository Searching. 

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    Figure 85. Details of particular item stored in the Document Repository.

     Search Tool: For the 'Advanced Search' see 'Home Page' section ('Search Repository' paragraph) and Figures 4 and 5, in this chapter. This simple search tool is described here. It can be accessed by entering a term or terms in the empty field on the left side of 'Search' tab shown in the right top corner of Figure 2 (indicated as "Field 5"). Figure 9 demonstrates the Search engine results after request for the keyword "Groningen". The results has been found and shown (Field 4, Figure 9), along with some additional choices:

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    Figure 9. Search engine results after request for the keyword 'Groningen'.

    • Field 1. The User may modify the present search or perform a new one by selecting 'Refine search' or 'New search', respectively.
    • Field 2. Select mode of sorting the results. The available options for setting the order of the results are available  after clicking on the small arrow, just before the 'Reorder' tab, and they are:  by year (ascending or descending), by author's name and by document title.
    • Field 3. The list of references can be exported in several different formats, selected from the small arrow just before 'Export' tab, such as ASCII, BibTeX, HTML, just to name a few.
    • Field 4. The results of the search are shown in the screen. Clicking on the blue text in Field 4, Figure 9, will lead to the screen similar with the one displayed in Figure 8.
    • Field 5. In the cases where the document is available, clicking on field 5, will download a .pdf copy of the respective material.   
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    Proposing new publications

    If you know of any publication that might be related to any of the AH Episodes or Applications provided by the EPISODES Platform and that could be added to the Document Repository, please use the Platform's contact form to send us DOI or a link to the publication.

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