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Use this page to view grouped lists of Topics, using the pre-defined selections on the left-hand side or the search facility
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IRSE News - 2022 papers
IRSE News - 2023 papers
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VIEW TOPIC GROUPS FOR Knowledge Base:
(Click on NOT to select all topics not in a particular group)
01 IRSE Event (individual paper) NOT 
02 IRSE Presidential Prog. NOT 
03 IRSE Event NOT 
04 IRSE NEWS - all papers NOT 
05 Magazine or Journal NOT 
06 Research Paper/Report NOT 
07 Online Resource NOT 
08 IRSE ITC paper NOT 
09 Book NOT 
0A Video NOT 
0B Back To Basics Article NOT 
0C Non-IRSE Conference NOT 
10 Lineside signalling NOT 
11 Cab sig (inc. ETCS/CBTC) NOT 
12 Traffic Management NOT 
13 Signalling Principles NOT 
14 Interlockings NOT 
15 Train Location NOT 
16 Train Prot. Systems NOT 
17 Points NOT 
18 Level Crossings NOT 
19 Comms Systems NOT 
1A Asset mgmt systems NOT 
1B Informatics NOT 
1C Artificial Intelligence NOT 
20 Requirements (spec) NOT 
21 Design NOT 
22 Construction NOT 
23 V and V NOT 
24 Ops and Mtce NOT 
25 Safety and Security NOT 
26 RAM management NOT 
27 Life-cycle management NOT 
28 Project Management NOT 
29 Competence NOT 
2A Systems Engineering NOT 
2B Human Factors NOT 
Help with using the topic list facility:
  • To view all topics in alphabetical, originating date or date modified order, click on one of the links at the top of the panel on the left (topics will be displayed ten at a time).
  • If some or all of the topics are in a hierachy (ie. with parent-child relationships), then you also have options to display "top level topics" only (ie. topics that have no parents). The options (if available) are displayed as links in the panel on the left.
  • NOTE that the alphabetical and top level options will not be available if the numbers of topics in the database is 100 or more.
  • If some or all of the topics are in named Groups, then a list of the Topic Groups is displayed in the panel on the left. Click on any of them to display a list of the topics that are members of that Group.
  • You can search for topics that contain specific words (up to five) by typing them into the search box, each one separated by a space, and then clicking on the SUBMIT button. The list of topics returned will be those that contain ALL of the search words. The search is not case-sensitive.
  • To search for a specific phrase, place all the words in double quotation marks (eg. "test system" ). If one of your search criteria is a specific phrase (ie enclosed in inverted commas, eg. "test system") then all other search criteria must also be enclosed in their own inverted commas, whether single words or multiple.
  • If you start a word with curly brackets (eg {lighting ), then the search looks only for cases where that word is designated as a keyword in the main text of the topic OR is the first word of the name of a Group.
  • Thus you can use the search facility to find Topics which all belong to the same subset of Topic Groups. For instance, {03 {05 would find those Topics which are members of both groups 03 and 05.
  • If you place a minus sign (-) in front of any individual search word, the search results will exclude any topics that contain any of the search words that are prefaced by a minus sign. For instance, test -validate would find those Topics which contain the word "test" but not the word "validate".
  • If you place a vertical bar (|) in front of any individual search word, the search results will include any topics that contain either the word before the bar OR the word after the bar (instead of listing topics that contain both words). For instance, test |validate would find those Topics which contain the word "test" or the word "validate". You cannot have an OR search which also contains a "NOT" requirement (such as test |-validate), and it is not advisable to mix "AND" and "OR" criteria in the same search as the results may be unpredicatable.
  • You can also use English in place of "-" and "|", as follows: use AND between words/phrases where both/all words/phrases are to be searched for; use OR instead of | ; and use AND NOT (or simply NOT) instead of - . All these operators (AND, OR, NOT) must be in capital letters, not lower case. Do not use OR NOT.
  • You can create complex search conditions by clicking on the + sign to the left of the Topic Groups (which will add up to 3 Topic Groups to the "Search" box, then click on SUBMIT to perform a search for Topics that are members of all those groups.
  • You can search for word patterns by using the % character to separate each word. Thus foot%ball will find not only Topics containing "football", but also Topics containing the word "foot" followed later in the text by "ball". You can use this to find text in specific datafields. For instance, ==5%ball%==6 will find all Topics where "ball" appears in the 5th datafield.
  • By default the search will only be performed using the current Data Source (as displayed at the top of the page) You can switch data sources using the Data Source buttons to the left. To search across all Data Sources, precede your search word/phrase by an asterisk.