• document based union finding aid

– integrated finding aids in the form of XML documents (EAD)

– Announcement in the complete HTML opinion within a linked structure

– cross search with the OpenSource indexer Lucene

• several interconnected levels

– holdings guide (upper level)

– inventories (lower level)

• results lead into the text of the finding aid (like in an e-book)

– with surrounding non-hits

– shown inside the structure

– with open choice to shift to the structural navigation at any time

• 4 combined search strategies

– full text search

– navigation inside the structures

– browsing through the text