We have created an online digital map tracing the travels of an Aboriginal activist Dexter Daniels. We have included what we thought were direct links in the online map to digitised ASIO records on the NAA site. However, the links takes the user to a page that requires the user to login as a guest and to then enter a search term. Is there some way we can circumvent this so that the user can be taken directly to the online record in the link? We are referencing all three volumes of this man’s ASIO file on the NAA site. They are:
- Item ID: 4025003
Series number: A6119
Title: Dexter DANIELS - Volume 1
- Item ID: 4025004
Series number: A611
Title: Dexter DANIELS - Volume 2
- Item ID: 30821342
Series number: A6119
Title: Dexter DANIELS - Volume 3
Both links take you to the item details for item #4025003:
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=4025003 (Edit: This format does not work properly anymore!)
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=4025003
Both links take you to the item #4025003 itself:
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4025003
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=ID&Number=4025003
Note: the AutoSearch formats are my personally preferred option, but all the above formats seem to work atm (There is no guarantee that the NAA won’t change things at some time)
I’m not the original poster, but neither of those link options work. I have this same problem. I can obviously access my search results just fine because I’m the one searching for it.
But if I want to share the item with someone and send them the link (the first one you posted) it will show session expired. The person can then click “search as a guest” but then they have to click the link again to have it actually load now.
There should be permanent direct links to each item, so that you can access it any time, and it isn’t connected to a session and thus shows as expired.
One of the 4 links does not work as required anymore, but the other 3 do so why your remark “neither of those link options work”? The AutoSearch versions seem to always work for me although in general the NAA site has been a bit of a hit and miss lately due to timeouts.
