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User Guide

This is the user's guide for the MHK system. It contains information on how to use the MHK system as is intended for users that will be using MHK for their own research.

Other than the User's Guide there are the Installation Guide, which explains how to install MHK in different systems, the Administrator Guide that explains how to manage and configure a MHK instalation and the Developer's Guide with information on the internal architecture of MHK for programmers who which to modify the MHK source code or to add new features.

1. Introduction

• 1.1. What is MHK
• 1.2. How to get MHK
• 1.3. Knowing more

2. Understanding MHK: overview and basic concepts

2.1. Overview: from sources to databases the MHk approach

• 2.1.1. The problem
• 2.1.2. The solution: the dual model
• 2.1.3. The source translator
• 2.1.4. The database interface
• 2.1.5. Record linking
• 2.1.6. Workflow overview

2.2. Data modelling

• 2.2.1. The source oriented model
• 2.2.2. The entity oriented model
• 2.2.2.1. The person oriented model
• 2.2.2.2. The geoentities model

2.3. Source modelling

• 2.3.1. The Kleio notation for historical sources
• 2.3.2. Basic concepts of Kleio: Groups, elements and aspects
• 2.3.3. Kleio in MHK: sources, acts and roles
• 2.3.4. Mapping from sources to relation tables

2.4. Record linking

• 2.4.1. Overview of the record linking process
• 2.4.2. The generation phase
• 2.4.3. The test phase
• 2.4.4. The clustering phase
• 2.4.5. Statistical information used for record linking
• 2.4.6. Normalization of attributes and values

3. Using MHK

3.1. Starting, stopping and managing users

• 3.1.1. Starting and stopping MHK
• 3.1.2. Logging in MHK
• 3.1.3. User configuration
• 3.1.4. Adding new users
• 3.1.5. Creating the user database
• 3.1.6. Removing users from MHK

3.2. Dealing with sources

• 3.2.1. Browsing sources
• 3.2.2. Translating sources
• 3.2.3. Files produced by the translation process
• 3.2.4. Correcting transcription errors
• 3.2.5. Importing translated sources
• 3.2.6. Changing and re-importing sources
• 3.2.7. Removing sources

3.3. Navigating and searching the database

• 3.3.1. How information is displayed
• 3.3.2. Basic navigation
• 3.3.X. Searching with SQL

3.3. Families and Genealogies

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