Configure Web Search Engines

In order to use ConceptChoir Web Search function, Web Search Engines must be defined first. To define web search enignes, you must first select Web Search Engine from ConceptChoir Manager Main Menu (Figure 1) to open the Web Search Engine Manager window as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 1. Select Web Search Engine from ConceptChoir Manager
 
 Figure 2. Web Search Engine Manager

To add an Web Search Engine, click the button to add a new set of Web Search Engine. Click the button to delete the engines. If there are more than one languages supported by this vocabulary, you will need to use the button to add a the Web Search Engine in another language and in similar fashion, button to remove the stage in the selected language.

Here is an example of how to add a customized Web Search Engine:

  1. Perform a web search with the engine to add: here we use Getty Museum Collection search engine as an example, see the Figure 3 for search results:

    Figure 3: Getty Museum Collection search results

     

  2. Click the sign to add a new set of search engine.

  3. In Site field, fill in "Getty Museum" or any other code that you want to identify it with.

  4. In your browser window, copy the address string till your search terms. In our case, the string will be "http://search.getty.edu:18765/museum/query.html?col=museum&nh=5&pw=100%25&lk=1&qt=".

  5. Paste the string you copied from previous step into the SEARCHURL field.

  6. For some search engines, there will be string after your search terms. In that case, you will need to copy the string AFTER your search terms and paste it into the SYNTAX field.

  7. If more languages are supported, repeat step 4 to 6 for all other languages.

  8. Once finished all editing, click OK button to save the new Web Search Engine and close the window.


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