Manitoba Visual Arts Network Archiving Project
Searching Indexed Web Pages for information

There are two ways to search for material in the Manitoba Visual Arts Network Archive.

1. You can search across the entire Manitoba Visual Arts Network Archive.
2. Or, you can search through the individual archive collections of member organizations, catalogue listings, etc.

Each method has its benefits.

• Searching the entire archive will enable you to locate information about an artist, idea, or activity from all of our archived sites in response to just a single query.
• However, searching the individual archives might turn up things which the first method will not.
  • With some of the archive collections you may be offered alternative categories specific to the collection. (The current Video Pool Catalgoue search makes available searches by year and running time.)
  • Searching individual archive collections will give you the choice of having your response returned to you as a set of links to the original archived html documents or having the data found excerpted from those documents and printed directly to your screen.
  • There is also a difference in how the searches are conducted:
    1. The search engine used when searching individual archives will search for any text you submit, e.g. it will find "ring" in "string".
    2. By contrast, the search tool used when searching the entire archive is somewhat more concept or semantically driven than the other search tool. If you search for artist", you may also turn up references to "artistic", and vice versa, i.e. a search for "artistic" may turn up references to "artist".