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Ch 8: Result Views and Export

Documentation written on 04/11/2025 by Sylvain Besson (MSH Lyon Saint-Étienne / CNRS)
Updating 25/06/2026 by Vincent Paillusson (HTL)

Ch 8: Result Views and Export

1. Record View

Explore → Filter → Record

The Record view shows all the elements of a recording. The differents fields and associated metadata and possibly relationship between recordings.

How to start:

  • To begin, click on [Explore]. ①
  • Perform a search or use a [Saved Filter] that returns the records you want to include in your report. ①
  • Select a record ②
  • Click on [Record] ③

Record view

Once on the [Record] view selected, the record’s metadatas appear. There is several informations:

  • Title ①: title of the record
  • Icon ②: record’s type icon
  • Record H-ID ②: Intern Heurist record ID
  • Media ⑤: Picture of the media

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Focus on medias

  • If a media exists in the record, a thumbnail is displayed
  • It is possible to display in [full screen] 19f1a1b3-59a6-4d68-9a93-8118c79c82e9.png ① or viewing it in popup 2af48b38-0885-4685-97b2-ede4e8407969.png ②
  • The media can also be displayed on [Mirador] (using Heurist’s automatic IIIF manifest) ③ or [OpenSeadragon] 78e932f2-d82a-4c69-9fba-c9efd90ae890.png viewer ④
  • You can [download] 60955b67-0421-4c06-b809-0dac5661efea.png it ! ⑤
  • By hovering over [description], a description appears if this field has been completed ⑥
  • Finally by going over [rights], the rights of the media appears if it was filled during the record creation ⑦

Media buttons

Click on [More…]

Cite as ① : The record can be cited in XML or HTML. The updating date of the record is shown as the lastest modification date.

Added ②: Creation date of the record

Updated ③: Last record update

Ownership ④: Communicate who owns the record and who can read it

Rating ⑤: You can rate each record from one to five

Tags ⑥: You can tag records to find them more easily


More button

2. List view

Explore → List View

[List view] allows essentialy to show the whole selected data in table format ③.

You can choose the field you need ①. You can also save the settings ②. It is also possible to export by simple copy/past (CSV with tab as separator), by excel format and PDF format ③.

list view fonctionnalities

🛟 Tip:

If you want to export data with more export formats, you may want to try the Export view described in the following section.



3. Export View

The Export view allows to export the request results under differents data formats:

CSV ①
XML ②
JSON ③
RDF ④
GeoJSON ⑤
KML ⑥
GEPHI ⑦
IIIF ⑧
HuNI ⑨


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CSV

When you click on [CSV], a pop-up is opening. With this pop-up, you can choose the fields you want to export and with wich settings.

First, you must choose the records you want to export ①. You can choose between the current result set and subset of only selected records.

After the records selection, you choose one of the two available export settings ② :
- a single joined file
- a file by record type (if multiple types are selected).

The main step of the export setting is to select the fields you want to export ③. You can choose to display them either by Alphabetic or by Form order.

You can export some metadata ④.

🛟 Tip:
The H-ID is often important to export because you will use it when you import/update data back into heurist.

You must choose the fields you want to export ⑤. It can be record pointer, relationship markers, constructed titles or all types of fields.

Finally, when ending the CSV export setting, you can change the field/column delimiter for the csv (for example: tab, semicolon,coma, etc.) and character used for quotemarking the textual content.

You can also save settings ⑦ by giving it a name in order to use it later.

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for other export types (meaning all formats but CSV), it is possible to choose between:

  • Export the records and theirs relationships (relationship of the type pointer or the relationships maker)
  • Export only the pointer relationships
  • Don’t follow the pointer relationships or the relationships makers
  • Follow all of relationship including inverse pointers (🚨warnings: it could export the entire database)

XML

“Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.” (source: Wikipedia)

ℹ️ To know:
There is no options for this export format.


JSON

“JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an open standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of name–value pairs and arrays (or other serializable values).” (source: Wikipedia)

You can tick if you wish to get concepts codes in yours exports.

RDF

“The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a method to describe and exchange graph data.” (source: Wikipedia)

In this format, you can specify the ‘Serialize as’ you want:

  • rdfxml
  • json
  • ntriples
  • turtle

You can also tick if you want to get record type label, term label, record title or file info.

GeoJSON

“GeoJSON is an open standard format designed for representing simple geographical features, along with their non-spatial attributes. It is based on the JSON format.” (source: Wikipedia)
You can select the export detail between:

  • No
  • Inline
  • Full

KML

“Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML notation for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers.” (source: Wikipedia)

ℹ️ To know:
There is no other options for this export format


GEPHI

For GEPHI export, you can choose to add additional fields to export ①. In the case you wish to select other fields, another pop-up opens and you can choose in the whole datebase (🚨warnings: all the fields doesn’t fit well with the fields already in the records selected). You can also export without adding other fields ②.

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🛟 Tip:
You can start by exporting only the first 1000 nodes. It could be usefull in order to check if the fields export are correct.


IIIF

“The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF, spoken as ‘triple-I-eff’) defines several application programming interfaces that provide a standardised method of describing and delivering images over the web, as well as “presentation based metadata”[1] (that is, structural metadata) about structured sequences of images” (source: Wikipedia)


ℹ️ To know:
There is no other options for this export format


HuNI

“HuNI (pronounced “honey”) brings together information about the people, works, events, organisations and places that form Australia and Canada’s past and present.” (source: huni.net)

ℹ️ To know:
There is no other options for this export format


📊 Export‑type quick‑reference table – Which format to choose?

Need

CSV

XML

RDF

JSON

GeoJSON

KML

Gephi

IIIF

HuNI

Spreadsheet

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Markup (tagging)


✅

✅

✅

✅

✅


✅

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Versatile (generic data)

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅


✅

Spatial (geographic)





✅

✅




Networks







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High‑resolution images








✅


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