Example pages of the database

Here you can see some typical pages of the cardboardmodel database. They should attend as samples for the different information, you can find in it. Some of the shown pages are only for members. If you interested in "becoming a member" then you should become one!
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	The welcome page of the database with all implemented functions. For not AGK members there is just the upper Area. Access to the card models you will get by the lists designer, publisher, categories, years, scale and so on or by the search function.
	In the first row you can see a excerpt from the list of German publisher (left), which have more than 10 models in the database, and from the "complete list of publisher from other countries" (right). Beneath that an excerpt from "Complete list of designer". If the publisher still exists, you can see his Homepage. publisher homepage. With you can see more information about the publisher or constructor and with you can change it. With you can search a cardboardmodel limited to the designer or publisher. The button leads you to a list of cardboard models . This one can use without registration.
	More lists which leads you to the cardboard models. Upper left list of categories, in which the models are graded. Different main categories have a different colour code. Aside of this list of year of publication did you know, that the first cardboard models are from the year of 1529? Discovered from members of the AGK at the German national museum in Nürnberg. Under it you see the list of Scales.For the display of the cardboard models you can change the scale area (on the top of the page). The button starts the limited search again and leads to a list of cardboradmodels. This one can use without registration.
	Here you see List of cardboard models for a publisher (for example: the publisher from Poland Maly Modelarz), designer, scale and so on. Every -button on the page publisher-, designer-, years-, scales- leads you here, also the results of the search were displayed. 20 cardbordmodels can shown per page, switching between the pages is posible. According to the code colers of the categories the cardboard models have different background colours . Without registration you can not go any further. For AGK members leads to cardboardmodel details. With you can change a cardboard entry And with you can add the cardboardmodel to your own collection. mark this model for a possible comparison and does a search of models which have a similar name.
	Here are some examples for cardboard models entries ("cardboard models characteristics"). Up to 60 different properties per model can enter in the database. Among different variation of titles, you can enter the designer the publisher, the publication year, information about the printing process, the scale and the packing. You can also enter information about the model to build, for example the dimension of the model, the number of parts or about the similarity with the original. All this details you will find in the big central box in the center of the page. Red or blue coloured names or terms are links to further information about the author or the publisher or leads to a list of all cardboard models of the publisher or the year of publication, and so on. The smaller box beneath that contains origin information to this entry and details about where the model can be find (which museum or collector owns the model). In the next box there are informations about the history of the entry. This means, when the entry was created or changed. If available there is a box with pictures right aside. If there more than one picture from the models, this pictures can shown as a slideshow. The entry left below is very incomplete, a good example for what is left to do.
	This page shows a part of Entry or change mask . Every entry has a special help function (left above, for example for the designer). Due to a clear structure in different key aspects, you don´t need to be a computer expert, to correct or complete entry´s or makes a new once. AGK members can correct or update all entry´s in the database. Such like a wiki all AGK members are invited to work at the database. Sounds intresting? Why you don´t become a member? How become a member.
Analog to the cardboardmodel details there is one for the designer (left picture) and for the publisher(right picture from the excerpt), displayed in the big box in the center of the picture. Below that, in the smaller box there are the history entry´s again, Pictures in the box right aside. More detailed information about this box you find in "Cardboard models entry´s". The wide box down below shows, which publisher, categories or publication year belongs to the model from this designer. With the you get to the corresponding list.
	An alternative way to get to a cardboardmodel page, is the Search function (look at the picture) for publisher or designer. At this page you can enter the complete or a define part of the name from the cardboardmodel you search. Then you must decide for a exact Search (the first 4 possibilities) or a unsharp search. At the exact search the entry can just be found if the name exists right as its written. At the unsharp search you will get also similar results, for example Eifelturm or Eifel-Turm. As result of the search you will get a list analog to the already shown list. You can also combine your searches cardboardmodel lists
	Here you can see the result of a publisher search. In this example an unsharp search for all publisher, which has the term, model in the name was started. The number in the first column is about the similarity.
	You can compare a maximum of 10 cardboard models from the cardboardmodel list or the detail view with the button you mark the model. Now you click right above on "Compare model" to start the comparison. The shown table with all the detail can be use to compare different editions of cardboard models. According to their main categories the title of die cardboard models are dyed. To change a incorrect or missing data you can use this button. . With the cardboardmodel entry will not be erased, only the display of the comparison.