https://www.rimmf.com/w/ 2026-05-21T09:11:57+00:00 https://www.rimmf.com/w/ https://www.rimmf.com/w/lib/tpl/dokubook/images/favicon.ico text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:addcaption&rev=1754422341&do=diff Add a Caption A caption is a grouping mechanism for elements (or vocabulary terms) that can help to explain the purpose of the elements that come under it. For example, 'Title of the Work', 'Form of the Work', and 'Date of the Work' are all attributes for identifying a Work, and so might be logically grouped under a caption named 'Attributes for identifying the work': text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:addcaptiondf&rev=1754422341&do=diff Add a Caption Quick Steps In a template: * Put your cursor on the element label that is directly below where you want your new caption to be inserted (go here instead, for instructions if the element is to be inserted at the end of the record/template) text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:addelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff Add an Element An element is the primary data container in a RIMMF record. You may create elements in template mode only; however, any element that you create in template mode is added to your options and will always be available later in the same context (ie. an element for a Work record will be available in other Work records, but not in Manifestation records, etc.) text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:addelementdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff Add Data to a Record or Template To add data to a record, simply click on the cell in the 'Text' column and enter the data for the corresponding element. If the text box for an element has a down arrow on it's right, then the data to be entered either must or should come from a vocabulary list: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:addelementend&rev=1754422341&do=diff Add an Element or Caption to the end of a Record or Template You have to do a special step to add an element or caption at the end of a record or template, because the typical step of pressing <Insert> to add an element will not apply. If you want to add something at the end of a record or template, put your cursor in the (parent) element above where you need a new one added, and either: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:addlinktorelatedentity&rev=1754422341&do=diff Link to a Related Entity Quick Steps In a record for an entity, if you determine that there is a need to link this entity data to data for another entity: * Find the appropriate relationship element, e.g.: * In a Work record, find the 'Expression of Work', or the 'Creator', or the 'Other Person, Family, or Corporate Body Associated with a Work', or the 'Related Work' element text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:addterms&rev=1754422341&do=diff Add a Term to a Vocabulary Quick steps: from within a record If you need to add a local term to an open vocabulary: * Click on the Text box for the element * Type the local term that you would like to use * Press <TAB> or <Enter> * Add a definition, if you can text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:addvocab&rev=1754422341&do=diff Add a Vocabulary to a Record or Template Add a Vocabulary: Quick Steps * Put your cursor on the 'Element label' that is directly below where you want your new vocabulary to be inserted (go here instead, if the vocabulary is to be inserted at the end of the record/template) text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:buildwem&rev=1754422341&do=diff Build WEM 'Build WEM' is designed to speed up the process of providing Work and Expression data for a resource, by copying Manifestation data to pre-assigned elements in Work and Expression records. For Build WEM to function, you must enter data in this prescribed order: start with your Manifestation data, then give any Item data, then provide Work data, then finish up with Expression data. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:changedatafolder&rev=1754422341&do=diff Change data folder Quick Steps Local Network * Go to Tools | Change data folder * Choose <Local network> * Click <OK>, after reading the explanation at least once * Find the folder of RIMMF data that you want to open * Click <OK> * RIMMF will create an Entity Index for the data in the folder; click <OK> text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:changedisplay&rev=1754422341&do=diff Change the Columns that Display Quick Steps While in a record or a template: 1. To view a hidden column in a display * Click the barred box at the top of the 'indicator column' in the top left corner of a record or template form * Click the check box of any column you would like to add to your display text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:changedisplays&rev=1754422341&do=diff Change displays You can change the look of your records or templates in a variety of ways. Some of these changes can be made part of your default display, others are only temporary. If you change the default displays for a template and then choose text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:copyelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff Copy an Element Quick Steps * Place your cursor on the row for the element you wish to copy, and press <F2> OR * With your cursor anywhere: * Right-click on the indicator column to the far-left of the element that you wish to copy * Choose <Copy> text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:copytemplate&rev=1754422341&do=diff Copy a Template Copy a Template: Quick Steps * Choose 'File|Open|Template' * Select and open the appropriate Entity folder * Select and open the appropriate existing template * Save the existing template as a new file: choose 'File|Save As' * text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:copytemplaterf&rev=1754422341&do=diff Copy a Template Copy a Template: Quick Steps * Choose 'File|Open|Template' * Select and open the appropriate Entity folder * Select and open the template you want to copy * Save the existing template as a new file using 'File|Save As' * Give the new template an explanatory name, always beginning with the name of the Entity, e.g., Expression template.Audio text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:createnewexpdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create New Expression Data From a Work record: * Find the element for 'Expression of Work' * Right click on the 'RIMMF Identifier' text box * Choose “Create new Expression” * Choose an appropriate Expression template * Add Expression data text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:createnewitemdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create New Item Data From a Manifestation record: * Find the element for 'Exemplar of Manifestation' * Right click on the 'RIMMF Identifier' text box * Choose “Create new Item” * Choose an appropriate Item template * Enter Item data text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:createnewmanifdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create New Manifestation Data Beginning at the Manifestation Level * At the Main Menu * Choose File |New record for ... | Manifestation * Choose an appropriate Manifestation template * Add Manifestation data * Add all elements needed to: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:createnewpfcdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create New Person, Family, or Corporate Body Data From a Work, Expression, Manifestation, or Item (WEMI) record (as appropriate): * Right-click on the 'RIMMF Identifier' Text box for the Person, Family, or Corporate Body (PFC) relationship that you wish to establish text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:createnewworkdata&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create New Work Data Beginning at the Manifestation Level From a Manifestation record * Find the element for 'Expression Manifested' * Right click on the 'RIMMF Identifier' text box * Choose “Create new Work” * Choose an appropriate Work template text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:createvocab&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create a new Vocabulary In RIMMF, a vocabulary is a container for a list of terms. Once a vocabulary has been linked to an element, all of the terms in the vocabulary are available when editing a record. Quick Steps * Open the vocabulary editor text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:customizetemplate&rev=1754422341&do=diff Customize a Template The following topics describe the actions that can be used to customize a template * Add an Element ; Add a Caption ; Add a Vocabulary * Move an element/caption/vocabulary * Copy an element/caption/vocabulary * Create/Add subproperty of an element/caption/vocabulary * Delete an element/caption/vocabulary * Delete only Children of an element/caption/vocabulary * Add Data You can use customized templates to add constant data to records for a particular type … text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:deletechildren&rev=1754422341&do=diff Delete only Children Delete only Children of an element/caption/vocabulary: Quick steps * Right-click on the indicator column to the left of the element/caption/vocabulary (just called 'element' below, for short)that you want to delete * Choose <Delete only Children> text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:deleteelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff Delete an Element Quick Steps If you wish to delete an entire element from a record or a template: * Position your cursor anywhere in the row for the element that you wish to delete * Press function key <F11> This will delete the entire element and any subelements associated with it, along with any data. Be careful, there is no undo option in RIMMF. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:deletelink&rev=1754422341&do=diff Delete a Link Quick Steps To delete a link to another record: * Position your cursor anywhere in the Text box that contains the link, and: * Right-click and choose 'Remove link to this ...' * If you are sure, click <Yes> Do NOT use the other deletion options that are useful for deleting text: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:deletetextcontents&rev=1754422341&do=diff Delete the entire contents of a Text box If you wish to clear the contents of a Text box: * Position your cursor anywhere in the Text box you wish to clear * Press function key <F6> This will also clear a vocabulary term from a Text box. Be careful, there is no undo option in RIMMF. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:elementaddsubprop&rev=1754422341&do=diff Create/Add Element Sub-property Create/Add Element Sub-property: Quick steps * Right-click on the indicator column to the left of the element/caption/vocabulary (just called 'element' below, for short) for which you wish to add a sub-element * Choose <Create/Add subproperty> text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:entercopyright&rev=1754422341&do=diff Enter a copyright or phonogram copyright symbol To enter a copyright or phonogram symbol as part of the data in a record, position your cursor appropriately, and either use the Edit menu or Function keys, as shown below * <Shift><F1> enters the 'copyright' symbol text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:enterdiacritics&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to enter diacritics * Position the cursor where you would like to insert a diacritic. * Go to: <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm> * Find the appropriate page for the character you want, e.g., search “inverted question mark” * Go to 'Encodings' section and 'How to type in Microsoft Windows' text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:followlink&rev=1754422341&do=diff Go to a Linked Entity Record In a record for an entity, you can follow links to data about related entities in three different ways: * Right click on the data in the 'RIMMF Identifier' text box for the appropriate relationship element * Click on the appropriate text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:linktorecord&rev=1754422341&do=diff Link to another Entity record How to link to another entity record: Quick Steps In the record to which you wish to add a link to a related record: * Right-click on the appropriate RIMMF Identifier (RID) text box * -Hover over “Link to” to choose an existing record you can link to; or text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:linktorules&rev=1754422341&do=diff Link to RDA Instructions You must, of course have a subscription to the RDA Toolkit, in order for these links to work. If the RDA Rule column is not showing: * follow the instructions at how to Change the Columns that Display to show that column If the RDA Rule column is showing: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:linkvocab&rev=1754422341&do=diff Link a Vocabulary to an Element To link a vocabulary to an element--so that the vocabulary's Terms are available when the associated element is edited in RIMMF--follow these steps: * Close the Vocabulary editor if it is open * Open the Element Editor text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:moveelement&rev=1754422341&do=diff Move an Element Quick Steps * Click on the indicator column to the far-left of the element, and move the cursor slightly to bring up the curved arrow * Move the curved arrow to a new position for the element, and release Detailed Steps You may find that you need/want to move an element to another position in a record or a template. This is a very simple process: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:outputxml&rev=1754422341&do=diff Output record as XML The first version of RIMMF by default saves records in a custom text format. However, it is also possible to save your records in XML format. To do this, go to the 'Tools|Setup' menu and select the 'Record file-type' option: text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:searchandretrieve&rev=1754422341&do=diff Search for Data Outside RIMMF Quick Steps Search You can search for data outside RIMMF from anywhere in RIMMF (while you are in a record, in a template, or at the main menu): * Press <F3> * Type your search term in the Terms box * Choose your Search Source text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:selectvocabterm&rev=1754422341&do=diff Choose data from a vocabulary list Quick Steps If a data element has a vocabulary list, you can use a term from the list by: * clicking on the Text box for the element and either: * choosing a term from the list: * clicking on the down arrow to the right of the text box text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:sharerecords&rev=1754422341&do=diff Share records created in RIMMF Until such time as we implement a nice web interface to RIMMF records, the following steps may be used to share your records with other users. 1. Email RIMMF records are simple text files, so you can attach them individually to an email message, or you can place them in a shared folder on your local network. text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:sidebar&rev=1754422341&do=diff How to do stuff in RIMMF How to: * Add a Caption * Add an Element * Add an Element at the end of a Record * Add a Link to a Related Entity * Add a Term to a Vocabulary * Add a Term from a vocabulary to a Record * Add Data to a Record * Change to a different folder of RIMMF records * Change Displays * Change Displays: Columns * Change RIMMF Identifier prefixes in a file * Choose Data from a Vocabulary List * Copy an Element * Copy a Template * Create/Add a Subprope… text/html 2025-08-05T19:32:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rimmf.com/w/doku.php?id=r3w:rimmf2:howto:wemilinks&rev=1754422341&do=diff WEMI Links RIMMF provides buttons at the bottom of resource entity records to help you to move from one record to another within a set of records that apply to the resource. These buttons are called 'WEMI Links'. They only work to take you 'up' to other records in the WEMI tree, not down.