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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
Commenced: 12 Jan 2024 Documentation rédigée le 07/11/2025 par Barbara Bonazzi mise à jour le 03/03/2026 par Barbara Bonazzi relu le 09/03/2025 par Maxine Original authors: Ian Johnson, Maël Le Noc (2023 - 2025), Michael Falk (2021-2022), Vincent Sheehan (2016...
Ch 02: Getting started with Heurist
Documentation rédigée le 07/11/2025 par Barbara Bonazzi, mise à jour le 03/03/2026 par Barbara Bonazzi, relecture le 26/03/2026 par Bruno Morandière 1. Steps to using Heurist The following is a typical workflow for a new user managing their own database: 1.1 R...
Ch 03: Basic structuring concepts
Documentation rédigée le 07/11/2025 par Barbara Bonazzi, mise à jour le 03/03/2026 par Barbara Bonazzi 1. Structuring your Database The Design menu serves to configure the structure of the database to accept your data. New databases are pre-populated with a ra...
Ch 04: Data entry
Documentation rédigée le XX/XX/XXXX par Y mise à jour le 25/06/2026 par Oanez Hélary When you create or edit a record it opens automatically in data entry mode. It is a form where the fields to fill are specific to each entity type and the values given to the ...
Ch 05: Modifying record structure & connections
Documentation rédigée le xxx par Guillaume Porte One of the most powerful features of Heurist is the ability to modify record structures at any time without rebuilding the database or reprogramming the interface, and to do this while you are in the middle of d...
Ch 06: Populating the database
1 Populate menu 1.1 Introduction The [Populate] menu gets data into the database. You can create individual records via a form, upload data files such as a CSV file from a spreadsheet or an XML file from another database, synchronise with the Zotero bibliograp...
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 database. The core function of Explore is filtering the database to isolate a subset of the database to which some sort of listing, analysis, visualisation or export will...
8e: Using IIIF - manifests, canvases and annotations
Note : This chapter supplement is in the Heurist gitHub /documentation/IIIF folder at 28 June 2026, but this version will becoem the authoritative source. Additonal documentation has been written since 28th June. This guide describes the IIIF features provided...
8a: Getting started with custom reports
Documentation rédigée le 06/11/2025 par Shannon Bruderer mise à jour le 05/12/2025 par Shannon Bruderer What is a Custom Report ? : A Custom Report is a template that structures your database records into various output formats such as HTML (for web display), ...
8d: Summary : Mapping and visualisation
Summary automatically generated on 11/25/2025 using the gpt-oss:120b model from the servers of Onyxia (INSEE) based on the complete document of the chapter. 1️⃣ Spatio‑temporal Map tab Action 1 Click [Explore] . 2 Run a search or use a [Saved Filter] to retri...
09a: Publishing websites and database archiving
The Publish menu The Publish menu delivers easily edited CMS websites embedded directly within the database, as well as individual web pages which can be embedded in other sites. It also provides an archiving function which enables the download of a complete, ...
Ch 10: Adminstration of databases
Admin menu Functions for creating and managing a database, export and archiving. Database Open – browse databases on the server and select a database to open New – create a new database with a default set of useful structure and optional test data Clone – make...
Ch 11: Basic server management
This chapter outlines some useful procedures for managing Heurist servers, including the servers managed by the Heurist development team / Heurist Network. General observations Heurist is designed to run on any Linux server Emergency Unix commands These comman...
Ch 06a: Importing and matching references (worked example)
Ian Johnson, updated 29 May 2026 Background This section gives a worked example of importing two sets of references (Primary and Secondary) for inscriptions from a spreadsheet derived from Zotero data. The example comes from the IDENK project (Idenk.net) based...
Ch 06b: IIIF Manifests, Canvases and Annotations
This guide describes the IIIF features provided by Heurist for creating, importing, viewing, editing and exporting IIIF Manifests, Canvases and Web Annotations. Heurist supports two main workflows: Use Heurist as an annotation layer over existing IIIF Manifest...
Ch 06c: Omeka-S to Heurist
Omeka S is a configurable database (there is an older version Omeka Classic). It is much more complex to set up and much more limited, although it does have some functions in the semantic web area which we don't yet address and extensive tech documentation, ha...