How to create topics

Introduction

The Archives Portal Europe has a 'tag cloud' with themes or topics on its homepage to enable end-users to access specific content on these topics very quickly. It is possible to connect finding aids to these topics.

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The basic workflow

The Content Checker, our demo environment, doesn't have any topics yet, so let's create one and attach finding aids to it.

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For connecting finding aids to topics you need to have a Source Guide which already links to finding aids on that specific topic. You can create a Source Guide in the Archives Portal Europe's Dashboard and it is the same functionality which also enables you to create a Holdings Guide. This instruction video shows how to create a Holdings Guide, so use that same principle when clicking on the "Creation of a Source guide"-link in the "Source guide"-view of the Content manager screen of the Dashboard:

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