Understanding Heurist 2026 Vsn 7
End-user manual for the Heurist academic knowledge management platform. 2026 (version 7).
PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS and is still being actively developed.
Ch 01: Overview
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Ch 02: Getting started with Heurist
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Ch 03: Basic structuring concepts
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Ch 04: Data entry
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Ch 05: Modifying record structure & connections
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Ch 06 : Populating the database (import, lookup & synchronisation)
Ch 06: Populating the database
1 Populate menu 1.1 Introduction The [Populate] menu gets data into the database. You can create ...
Ch 06a: Importing and matching references (worked example)
Ian Johnson, updated 29 May 2026 Background This section gives a worked example of importing two ...
Ch 06b: IIIF Manifests, Canvases and Annotations
This guide describes the IIIF features provided by Heurist for creating, importing, viewing, edit...
Ch 06c: Omeka-S to Heurist
Omeka S is a configurable database (there is an older version Omeka Classic). It is much more com...
Ch 07: Using the database (find, filter & view
[Explore] is the workhorse function that allows you to make use of the data recorded in a databas...
Ch 08 : Result sets, manipulation, custom reports and visualisation
Ch 8: Result Views and Export
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8a: Getting started with custom reports
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8b: Custom reports - Advanced functions
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8c : Mapping & Visualisation
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8d: Summary : Mapping and visualisation
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8e: Using IIIF - manifests, canvases and annotations
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8a bis: Custom reports OLD VERSION
Custom Reports are optional but they allow you to customize data display in powerful ways. By def...
Ch 09: Publishing, websites, URLS, PIDs and archiving
09a: Publishing websites and database archiving
The Publish menu The Publish menu delivers easily edited CMS websites embedded directly within th...
09b: Domains, URLs, PIDs and custom website templates
Integrating a website or individual pages with your existing domain Heurist can generate a comple...
Ch 10: Adminstration of databases
Admin menu Functions for creating and managing a database, export and archiving. Database Open – ...
Ch 11: Basic server management
This chapter outlines some useful procedures for managing Heurist servers, including the servers ...
Ch 07a : Recoding and verification
Introduction In this chapter we will look at ways that data in the database can be verified for c...