Accessing Laurentius using SRU/SRW

This document describes how S:t Laurentius Digital manuscript library can be searched and navigated remotely using the search and retrieval protocol SRU

Note that there might be a differences between this search engine and many other, since this one focus on the content of the manuscripts. That is a search for prayer in Laurentius will provide pointers to the pages inside them that contain prayers. There will, however also be links to the prayer books in the collections.

As of writing this, there is only limited support for fielded search.

explain operation

searchRetrieve operation

version:
operation:
startRecord:
maximumRecords:
recordSchema:
query:

Example CQL queries

dc.creator=vergilius
dc.creator=vergilius or dc.creator=birgitta
dc.title="de consolatione philosophiae"
dc.creator=vergilius and dc.title=bucolica

To "harvest" all records, make the following search

mh or dep

Set maximumRecords to 1000 (in the form above), and they are all yours.

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