Citations with complex paths

By History-Hunter on Mon, 01/30/2023 - 09:05

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The recent posting of QuickLesson 25 was somewhat helpful, but my situation appears to be a bit more complex. Perhaps that is just my perception...

The method of accessing an image in the État Civil records of the Archives of Paris involves using the search-engine to access to the start of a set of browsable images (eg. the start of a portion of an imaged film), then one must browse the images to locate the item-of-interest.

This results in two questions:

When the route from a "landing" web address to an image requires a database query, are the search terms explicitly identified as such within the citation? I haven't seen any really good examples of them being explicitly stated, so I would assume that it is implicit that one will extract that information from the balance of the citation. Is this correct? [I've assumed the answer to be, yes, in what follows.]

Usually; the image number belongs in that portion of the citation that addresses locating the image, not with information located on the image itself (Adhesion principle???). For French archival records, I've previously found a simple website-format worked best, so I've tried to use it as my default. So; my best guess is that an example Paris Archives citation ought to look something like the following. However; the the image number still feels out-of-place. How can I stay with the simple website format and incorporate the search terms and image number?

[Please excuse some of the peculiar wording. I've just translated this from my notes, which are in French.]

France, "Actes de naissance (1860-1924), mariage (1860-1947) et décès (1860-1986)", database with browsable images, Archives de Paris (https://archives.paris.fr/s/4/etat-civil-actes/? : downloaded 29 January 2023), image 24, births in the 13th arrondissement, for the year 1919, act 3007, drawn up 6 September 1919, for Garnier (Raymond Lucien Armand), born 4 September 1919; cites archival reference "13N 426" [Civil Register, Births, Paris 13, 2 August 1919 to 30 September 1919], Paris 19 (Buttes-Chaumont), Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Submitted byEEon Mon, 01/30/2023 - 14:28

H-H, you write:

When the route from a "landing" web address to an image requires a database query, are the search terms explicitly identified as such within the citation? I haven't seen any really good examples of them being explicitly stated,

EE' Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Citation, at 2.33 Citation Layers, uses its one example to demonstrate the use of search terms. Another example is at 2.70, example 4.

Your handling of issues in the citation above works fine. You don't explicitly say the words "search terms" but when we use your link to arrive at the on-screen form, it is easy pick out the needed search terms from your citation, to get us to the exact page.

 

Thank you for your feedback.

I managed to find the two examples you mentioned. I'm not surprised I didn't see them before, because those appear to be the only examples of search terms in the entire book and occur in within sections on somewhat unrelated topics.

I still felt uncomfortable about the seemly illogical structure of the image location portion of my suggested citation. I really wanted to adopt a method that followed the standard trail-of-breadcrumbs syntax to the greatest extent possible.

Would something like the following be reasonable for searches involving multiple parameters. For the subject archive, the structure is sufficiently regular as to facilitate cutting, pasting and editing to create other citations.

France, "Actes de naissance (1860-1924), mariage (1860-1947) et décès (1860-1986)", database with browsable images, Archives de Paris (https://archives.paris.fr/s/4/etat-civil-actes/? : downloaded 29 January 2023) > Rechercher (search terms: "Naissances" [Type de document] + "13" [Arrondissement] + "1919" [Année] + "06/09/1919" [Date de l'acte] + "3007" [Numéro de l'acte]) > Visualiser les images > image 24, Garnier (Raymond Lucien Armand), born 4 September 1919; citing archival reference "13N 426" [Civil Register, Births, Paris 13, 2 August 1919 to 30 September 1919], Paris 19 (Buttes-Chaumont), Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Notes:

  1. I reordered the elements to follow the order in which they are used to locate the image. This places the image number at the end, as one might expect.
  2. I've used the standard ">" syntax for elements that allow one to reach the image and commas for the balance. The parenthesized search terms that follow "Rechercher" are treated as a single element in that trail-of-breadcrumbs.
  3. Due to the way the records are organized and as all the parameters are specified, there will only ever be one result. This means that there is no doubt as to which hyperlinked "eye" symbol to use.
  4. "Visualiser les images" is the text that is displayed when one hovers over the hyperlinked symbol that looks like an eye.