The public catalogue
Every institution has a public catalogue at its own address. It shows what the institution has published, and nothing else: no draft, no value kept back, no file the rights or an embargo hold back.
Its home
The home page of the catalogue opens with the institution's own introduction and how much it has published, then a search, its collections with pictures, every top-level collection and every repository. An institution can replace this with a landing page of its own design; the catalogue's own home is then at ?catalogue=1. See Landing pages.
A record's page
Each published unit of description has a page with:
- its description, area by area, in the visitor's language where there is one;
- where it sits in its hierarchy, with the units above and inside it;
- its creators and other access points, each linking to its own page;
- its digital copies, in the viewer that suits each;
- Cite as, the record ready to cite in the common styles;
- Ask for access where some of its files are kept back;
- links to the same record as linked data and in IIIF.
Authority records, repositories, places, activities and rules have pages of their own, each listing what it is related to.
The graph
Every page links to the entity's graph: the entity and what it is related to, one step out or two. See Records in Contexts in the Workspace.
Withdrawn records
A record that is withdrawn is not simply gone. Its address answers that it has been withdrawn, with when and why, and where it was merged into another or replaced, a link to that one. Anyone who cited it can still find out what happened to it.
For the visitor
- The clipboard gathers records while browsing, to save as a set or export.
- The cart holds reproductions asked for, where the institution sells them.
- Help, at the foot of every page, opens the Help Center.
- The language menu switches between the languages the institution offers.
Open data
The foot of every page links to the open interfaces: the OpenRiC API and OAI-PMH. See Open data and harvesting.