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TIPS FOR USING CORD
- Simple
Search
- Advance
Search
- Syntax
Query
Simple
Search
By keying in one or several keywords, e.g. Oral Traditions, all documents containing these words will be retrieved.
Advance
Search
You can
search across the following fields:
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Accession
Number |
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The catalogue number assigned to an interviewee for documentation purposes. |
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Project
Title |
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A list of Oral History project titles, e.g. "Pioneers of Singapore", "Oral Traditions", "Special Project", etc. |
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Interviewee |
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The name of interviewee, e.g. "ABDUL Rahman (Tunku )", " CHIA Boon Leong", "RATNAM", etc. |
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Synopsis |
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A detailed summary or outline of the Oral History interview. The symbol "*" denotes the draft synopsis. |
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Recording
Language / Dialect |
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A set of recording languages or dialects which the interviews are conducted, e.g. English, Chinese, Malay, Hokkien, Cantonese etc. |
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Transcript
Availability |
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The availability of the transcript, e.g. "Yes", "No" or "Partial". |
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Access |
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The access type of an record. e.g. "open" or "restricted". |
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Thesaurus |
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Thesaurus
off
The program will only search record with the same
word or words enter in the query field.
Thesaurus on
The program will search for record with related
words with that entered in the query field.
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- Oral
history interview
"Accession Number", "Interviewee",
"Reel No. / CD No.", "Access"
Syntax
Query
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Natural Language
A natural language query can be made up of a single word, a list of words, or a natural language question. For example, the query: "Singapore" will list all documents containing the word "Singapore".
However, the query: "where can I locate the Singapore River?" will list documents on locating the Singapore River first followed by all other documents on Singapore and river.
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Phrase Searching
By keying in words within double quotes, documents containing those words in that specific order will be displayed. For example, the query: "Singapore Chinese" only lists documents with the phrase "Singapore Chinese". Documents with "Singapore" and "Chinese" that are apart will not be shown.
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Fielded Search
In the Advanced Search page, a search can be restricted to documents containing a specific word or phrase in a particular field. For example, entering the query "Chinese Dialect Groups" in the Project Title field, will retrieve records from this title.
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Boolean Operators: and (&&); or (||); not
The Boolean operators, and, or and not, are used to narrow or expand a search.
Note: Boolean operators must be entered in LOWERCASE letters.
- and (&&)
The and operator is useful in restricting a search. For instance, when searching for documents containing information on Chinatown, a query such as "Singapore and Chinese" only finds those documents containing both the words "Singapore" and "Chinese". An alternative syntax for this query is "Singapore && Chinese".
- or (||)
The or operator joins two different phrases of a Boolean search together for example "Singapore or Chinese" finds all documents containing either the word "Singapore" or "Chinese" (or both). An alternative syntax for this query is "Singapore || Chinese".
- not
The not operator is used to reject documents that contains the specified word. The query "Singapore not Chinese" lists all documents with the word "Singapore", but without the word "Chinese".
- (...)
The ( ) operator is useful in narrowing a search. For example. "(Singapore or China) and Chinese" finds all documents containing either the word "Singapore Chinese" or "China Chinese" or both.
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