Contact email: digitalia@phil.muni.cz
Updated: 23 Jul 2024
Prepared by Illyria Brejchová
Basic information about the Herbaria manuscripta platform is available on the database website in the About section.
Herbaria manuscripta is realised using Islandora Open-Source Digital Asset Management and is part of the Digitalia MUNI ARTS infrastructure. It’s basic technical documentation can be found in a separate document.
Individual records are stored as Drupal Nodes and grouped by type into Content Types. URIs of the individual objects: https://www.herbaria.phil.muni.cz/en/node/[id] and taxonomy terms: https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/en/taxonomy/term/[id].
GitHub repository for configuration files
GitHub repository for platform-specific modifications to the Digitalia theme
An overview of the content of Herbaria can be found in the Help section.
Metadata
Herbaria stores metadata in Drupal Fields. Each record type has a defined list of corresponding Fields. When exporting metadata in the Dublin Core (DC) schema, some of these fields are mapped to DC schema elements.
| Content type | Label | Machine name | Field type | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manuscript | Bibliography | field_bibliography | Data field | |
| Dating | field_dating | Text (plain) | ||
| Dating Interval | field_dating_interval | Entity reference | ||
| Created after | field_created_after | Number (integer) | earliest estimate | |
| Created before | field_created_before | Number (integer) | latest estimate | |
| Institution | field_institution | Entity reference | ||
| Known as | field_known_as | Text (plain) | common name of manuscript | |
| Link | field_link | Link | link to digitalization | |
| Note | field_note | Text (formatted, long) | ||
| Private note | field_private_note | Text (plain, long) | ||
| Provenance | field_provenance | Text (plain) | ||
| Scribe | field_scribe | Text (plain) | ||
| Institution | City | field_city | Entity reference | |
| Country | field_country | Entity reference | ||
| Link | field_link | Link | ||
| Mother institution | field_member_of | Entity reference | for linking subinstitutions to mother institutions | |
| Model | field_model | Entity reference | ||
| Text in Manuscript | Bibliography | field_bibliography | Data field | |
| Explicit | field_explicit | Text (plain, long) | ||
| Foliation | field_foliation | Text (plain) | ||
| Incipit | field_incipit | Text (plain, long) | ||
| Manuscript | field_manuscript | Entity reference | ||
| Note | field_note | Text (formatted, long) | ||
| Private note | field_private_note | Text (plain, long) | ||
| Type | field_type | Entity reference | ||
| Unified Title | field_work | Entity reference | ||
| Herbal entry | Effects | field_effects | Entity reference | |
| Bibliography | field_bibliography | Data field | ||
| Foliation | field_foliation | Text (plain) | ||
| Herbal | field_herbal | Entity reference | ||
| Modern identifications of the simple medicine | field_botanical_identification | Data Field | ||
| Note | field_note | Text (formatted, long) | ||
| Private note | field_private_note | Text (plain, long) | ||
| Order of entry | field_order_of_entry | Number (integer) | ||
| Transcription of herbal entry | field_work | Text (formatted, long) | ||
| Glosses | field_gloses | Data Field | ||
| Note | field_note | Text (formatted, long) | ||
| Private note | field_private_note | Text (plain, long) | ||
| User | Link | field_link | Link | |
| Expertise | field_expertise | Text (plain) | ||
| User | field_user | Entity reference | Link to user account | |
| Bibliographic citation | Citation | field_citation | Text (formatted, long) |
| Taxonomy term | Label | Machine name | Field type | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certainty Scale | ||||
| City | Authority Link | field_authority_link | Authority Link. | |
| Country | Authority Sources | field_authority_link | Authority Link | |
| Datation | ||||
| Effects | ||||
| Genre | Authority Sources | field_authority_link | Authority Link | |
| Herbal entry type | ||||
| Language | Authority Sources | field_authority_link | Authority Link | of text in manuscript |
| Modern Name of Simple Medicine | Bibliography | field_bibliography | Data field | |
| Type | field_herbal_entry_type | Entity reference | ||
| Links | field_authority_link | Authority Link | Links to databases with more information about this simple medicine | |
| Effects | field_effects | Entity reference | ||
| Common Czech Name | field_common_czech_name | Text (plain) | ||
| Common English Name | field_common_english_name | Text (plain) | ||
| Type of recording | Transcription or transliteration | |||
| Unified Title of Text | Bibliography | field_bibliography | Data field | |
| Language | field_text_language | Entity reference |
The Modern identifications of the simple medicine Data Field groups four fields:
The Bibliography Data Field groups two fields:
The Glosses Data Field groups three fields:
CSV
Herbals: https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/en/export/herbals.csv
Titles: https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/en/export/titles.csv
Herbal entries: https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/en/export/herbal_entries.csv
Modern names of simple medicines: https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/export/modern-medicines.csv
Medieval names for simple medicines: https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/export/medieval-medicaments.csv
REST API
All nodes and terms can be accessed via REST export (GET). The data is labeled with machine names the semantics of which was described in the chapter on metadata. A number of formats are available - json, csv, xml.
For nodes:
https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/node/export?_format=json
https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/node/export?_format=csv
https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/node/export?_format=xml
It is also possible to filter the data using the id (nid) or content type (type). For example:
https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/node/export?_format=json&nid=465
Herbals: https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/node/export?_format=json&type=work_in_manuscript
Codes for filtering by content type:
| Content type | Code |
|---|---|
| Manuscript | manuscript |
| Institution | instituce |
| Text in Manuscript | work_in_manuscript |
| Herbal entry | herbal_entry |
| User | user |
| Bibliographic citation | bibliographic_citation |
For taxonomy terms:
Filtering examples (by taxonomy term id (tid) and vocabulary id (vid)):
https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/term/export?_format=json&tid=90
Modern names of simple medicines: https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/term/export?_format=json&vid=botanical_name
Titles: https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/term/export?_format=json&vid=work
Codes for filtering by taxonomy term vocabulary:
| Taxonomy | Code |
|---|---|
| City | geo_location |
| Certainty Scale | certainty |
| Country | country |
| Datation | datation |
| Effects | effects |
| Herbal entry type | herbal_entry_type |
| Language | language |
| Modern Name of Simple Medicine | botanical_name |
| Type of recording | type_of_recording |
| Type of text | genre |
| Unified Title of Text | work |
Dublin Core OAI-PMH
OAI-PMH is the main way in which data from Herbaria manuscripta is contributed to aggregating platforms, such as LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ. Since the data in Herbaria manuscripta is highly specialized and not all of it would make sense outside of this platform’s context, only the central content type of the platform - that is the texts within manuscripts (the copies of herbals) - is shared via OAI-PMH. However, metadata from related content types (manuscripts, herbal entries) are also reflected in the Dublin Core records.
Endpoint: https://herbaria.phil.muni.cz/oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
The mapping is realized using the Metatag module and tokens, the available Drupal tokens have been expanded by the Digitalia Token module
| Dublin Core Element | Herbaria manuscripta field relative to ‘Text in Manuscript’ |
|---|---|
| title | [node:field_work] ([node:field_manuscript]) |
| subject | medieval medicine, herbs, [digitalia_muni:field_herbal:herbal_entry:title] |
| description | This text is part of the manuscript [digitalia_muni:field_manuscript:manuscript:title], [node:field_foliation]. It starts with the incipit: “[node:field_incipit]” and ends with the explicit: “[node:field_explicit]”. [node:field_note] |
| publisher | |
| date | [digitalia_muni:field_manuscript:manuscript:field_dating_interval] |
| type | [node:field_type] |
| format | text |
| language | [node:text_language] |
| identifier | [node:url:absolute] |
| relation | [digitalia_muni:field_manuscript:manuscript:field_link:uri] |
| rights | |
| coverage | Central Europe, Middle Ages |
Basic information about browsing and searching options can be found in the Help section of the database website.
The index for full text search on the platform contains the pages of all content types.
Content editor - can create, edit, and delete all content relevant to the Herbaria manusripta platform. Changes are saved as revisions.
Contributor - can add modern identifications to herbal entries and edit the Moden Names of Simple Medicines taxonomy.
The Herbaria manuscripta dataset authored and created by Masaryk University, can be used in accordance with the Creative Commons license terms: Creative Commons BY 4.0.