Structure

This first phase of the project Argus appeared in autumn 2003 has four main sections: "Map", "Territories", "Search" and " change / add information ".

• The section called "Map" shows by using a picture the reality of the oral sung improvisation in the different territories of the world. Always respecting the territoriality, it is an easy way to compile information about the sung orality.
  
• The section "Territories" is formed by a list composed by different territories of the world. There is specified the number of persons, organisms, documents and performances of each one. Later, the numbers can turn into name lists joined to their files. This list will be determined by the information of the database.
  
• The option "Search" offers to those experts who look for some specific information the possibility to have direct access to the requested information. This information is distributed in eight groups: title of the document, name of the person (authors and persons), organism, territory, genre of the document, term of indexation, function and area. All these groups are related between them.
  
• " Change / add information ": this section allows the users to change or add any kind of information about performances, documents, organisms or persons. You can go from a section to another. That is to say, once you have introduced the information about an investigator, if you want to add some more information about the works he has realized, that is the system that will provide all the steps the user needs to do it.
  Allows correcting the information. In this case, the operator of the project (the Documentation Centre Xenpelar) will receive a short message with the proposed changes and it will be provided to the consultative commission. In all the cases in which there is proposed to alter or add any kind of information, it will be strictly necessary to obtain the assent of the consultative commission.