Getting started

This part of the MICHAEL platform documentation contains what an editor must know in order to create and manage content in a MICHAEL database, using the MICHAEL production module. This is not a complete reference manual, more information is or will be available in other parts of the MICHAEL Editor's Guide.

To begin with, it is essential to read about the concepts and terms used in this documentation and in the platform. Then you will find instructions to use the most important functionalities of the production module: connecting to a database, your personal homepage and browsing the content of the database, including information on default folders in a MICHAEL production module.

You will find next two documents explaining how to create or modify records in the database. The first one gives general instructions, the second one is about the fields common to many record types in the MICHAEL data model and database.

The last five documents give general information on the input form used for creating the five types of records in a MICHAEL database: digital collections, institutions, projects or programmes, products or services, and physical collections. These are not aimed at providing guidelines for creating good records in a MICHAEL database, they only explain how the forms are organized and if there are special instructions to use them.