Marty Harris aka TEXT QUERY SYSTEM Marty Harris Mgr TRD

Marty Harris aka is a system designed to provide web-browser access to text resources as web pages on web sites, or from within relational databases with web access. aka consists of “PERL” based tools which connect various types of web accessible data sources to a simple Boolean search user interface. Aka can be used to search un- indexed web pages, web sites with existing search systems, or structured or unstructured text hosted on Getty servers. aka was developed by using a combination of Sybase, public domain, and Getty TRD, developed software. THE aka SYSTEM

Marty Harris aka’s components consist of: A Web page harvesting system –Public Domain A Text Indexing system –Public Domain PERL data source binding code –Getty Developed A Vocabulary Searching system –Getty Developed binding code with Sybase database repository aka’s User Interface components –Getty Developed THE aka SYSTEM

Marty Harris aka is hosted on a set of Sun Microsystems computers These consist of: A Web Server A Text search server A Vocabulary search server Several Web page harvesting machines aka uses several software systems : SYBASE relational DB System WAIS Text Retrieval Software Harvest spidering system THE aka SYSTEM

Marty Harris The WEB Text Search Engine Interface Unified Interface Page Index Database Page Harvester Web Sites Interface Web Sites with Search Engine Internal Getty and Other Outside Databases Hosted at the Getty Web harvesting services Database hosting search services Web search engine integration

Marty Harris Multiple Collections Text Searching Field Vocabulary Search Option THE aka INTERFACE

Marty Harris aka was designed to support general user access to a broad range of web-based information repositories. The system models generally supported by the aka system are: –Text-based boolean searching access to HTML pages hosted on unindexed remote web sites. Aka uses the Harvest spidering system to index remote sites automatically and provide a locally hosted searchable index. –Text-based boolean searching access to Getty hosted, formatted text records. If requested by information providers, TRD/Getty has taken formatted text records provided by partners and has hosted free text searching functionality on Getty servers. –Text-based boolean searching access to HTML pages hosted on indexed remote web sites which provide their own text searching interface. If requested by project partners, TRD/Getty has created custom PERL code which links the aka system to the partners existing text searching interface. THE aka MODEL

Marty Harris Users can type a single or multi-word phrase into the aka search field and search all of the indexed text within the aka text databases aka retrieves each of the matching records and displays them to the user. A user can at any time during a text search use the AAT, ULAN, or TGN vocabularies to filter, expand or limit the query and modify the results. Aka SEARCH PROCESS

Marty Harris The aka model is currently being used to support several GII projects: aka provides external searching access to four GII research databases currently online within the GII website. aka provides searching access to the public GII Faces of Los Angeles and the American Strategy projects. aka IMPLEMENTATIONS

Marty Harris The Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) Getty Education Institute ArtsEdNet Web Site Getty Museum Collections Management System Getty Research Institute Integrated Catalog, IRIS GII Index of Cultural Heritage Web Sites GRI Photo Study Collection - Antiquities GRI Photo Study Collection - Illuminated Manuscripts GRI Photo Study Collection - Max Hutzel Collection International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) Provenance Index Sale Catalogues Provenance Index Sale Contents The American Film Institute OnLine The Autry Museum of Western Heritage CSU Northridge: Special Collections and Archives Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Art Imagebase Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione IIstituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione II L.A. Library: People, Places and Events in Southern California L.A. Library: Historic Photographs of Southern California Lycos Image Index Museum of Tolerance: Photos of Children UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History USC Ethnic Studies Collection Alta Vista aka provides internal searching access to 26 GII research, and partner databases and two general search resource databases. aka IMPLEMENTATIONS

Marty Harris Multiple Collections Text Searching Field Vocabulary Search Option THE aka “AMERICAN STRATEGY “ INTERFACE

Marty Harris Multiple Collections Text Searching Field Vocabulary Search Option THE aka “FACES of LA“ INTERFACE