00:00 Workshop Introduction
1:26 Introduction to GEMMS 2.0
8:35 Search Demonstrations: Browse Options
10:30 GEMMS Full text search & Manuscript search by material features
12:25 Sermon search: faceting options & associated people/gender
15:05 Person search & Manuscript search by date
19:00 Sermon search by preaching and composition dates, preaching occasions & primary language
23:15 Downloading search results & Sermon search with multiple fields
25:35 Sermon search for print witnesses
29:30 Live Searches: Sermon search for digitized copies
32:00 Report search: by gender, date, Bible texts
35:30 Questions and audience suggested searches
This interactive workshop introduces GEMMS 2.0 and demonstrates its features. GEMMS, the Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons, is an open-access, group-sourced, bibliographic database of manuscript sermons from the British Isles and North America between 1530 and 1715. GEMMS allows users to identify relevant manuscript sermons from multiple repositories quickly and easily, which was virtually impossible before. The database includes records for not only sermons and manuscripts, but also for Bible books, and related people and places.
Our new interface has enhanced GEMMS’s search capabilities, enabling users to search any field in the database. GEMMS 2.0 also has improved the ability for users to refine their searches and allow for faceted searching of some fields (gemms.usask.ca). For the first time, users will be able to search for sermons with manuscript witnesses, print editions, or digital copies. Users also will be able to more easily search for preachers of a particular denomination and sermons preached in a specified language. Users will be able to quickly refine searches by a variety of criteria, including sermon types, occasions, languages and genres. One of the other new features is the new interface allows users to submit and add their own metadata and enhance existing records by submitting keywords, corrections, and additions.
Presented by Jennifer Farooq, Anne James and Jeanne Shami
18 сен 2024
