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RR 2011/298
Artefacts Canada
Canadian Heritage Information Network
Gatineau, PQ
URL: www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/bd-dl/artefacts-eng.jsp
Last visited March 2011
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Keywords Artefacts, Canada, Electronic media
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121111156364
Artefacts Canada is a database of the holdings of a wide variety of Canadian heritage institutions (museums, historical societies and any other heritage body). As of March 2011, it contained close to four million object records and close to eight hundred thousand images from Canadian museums. Artefacts Canada accesses records for art objects and social history artefacts among others.
Artefacts Canada provides access to object records and images highlighting treasures from disciplines such as archaeology, decorative arts, fine arts, ethnology and history. Searching Artefacts Canada can be done very easily. Simply enter the search term or terms and click on the Search button. The default search is set to search any word and to list all results regardless of location. However, at this stage, the researcher can limit the search of All Words (which provides a better search results when entering more than one term) and/or to limit the results to a specific territory or province. This permits the researcher to tailor the results as needed. One can also limit results to only those records with images. Depending on the search being conducted, this last limiter proves to be very useful.
An advanced search option permits the researcher to further refine the search strategy. One can refine by limiting to such fields as What (accession number, name of object, classification, title, description, history of use, subject/image, cultural context);...