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title: Become a Digital Data Maestro with PastView
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# Become a Digital Data Maestro with PastView

Posted by [Marshall Parr](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/pastview/community/author/marshall-parr) on June 29, 2021 at 7:59 AM

Yesterday saw the first in our series of new educational webinars aimed at helping our PastView users get the most out of the many features available to them. As a recap, we have created an overview and another opportunity to catch the webinar, if you missed it the first time round.

This webinar focused on exploring how to assign the most important attribute data to online collections, for better collection management and more accurate and comprehensive search results. 

A look at Attributes taught us how to apply the right data to our items, to help drive comprehensive searches, while the provision of Attributes Sets showed us how to create the correct sub categories, applying grouped data to specific material types and standardising collection structures. We then looked at how these two features combine and act as the driving force behind your Site Search - and how this translates in terms of results.  

You can view a recording of the webinar here:

 

### Best Practice Tips for Assigning Data

Casper Smithson also shared with us some of his tried and tested top tips for best practice when it comes to assigning the right data. This can be summed up as follows:  

We hope you found this webinar helpful but appreciate that it was a bit of a whistle-stop tour, so you might now have some questions as a result. If so, feel free to [**get in touch**](https://pastview.townswebarchiving.com/contact/).

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