Items within OCHRE are typically organized within Categories of data and arranged in meaningful hierarchical groupings. In some cases the organizing hierarchy has a containment structure that represents the strict nesting of items within other items; for example, an archaeological excavation context within the Locations & objects category. In other cases the hierarchy is just a convenient organizational structure for organizing, say, images within folders in the Resources category.

Inserting items

• The first insert button, the insert-within button (highlighted above), inserts a New item within the context of the currently selected item, and at the end of any existing sub-items.
• The next two insert buttons insert new sibling items either directly above or directly below (respectively) the currently selected item. This is useful for inserting a limited number of items near their sibling items in a long list of sub-items.
• The insert button with an asterisk is the insert-N button which will insert a specified number of new items following the currently selected items. This is useful if you have a lot of items that are similar and you want to make a number of similar copies of them. For example, you may have entered a coin, and now you have 7 more just like it. You can enter these extra 7 quickly by using the insert-N button and requesting 7 copies.

Refreshing items

OCHRE tries to retain in memory items that it has fetched from the online database in order to minimize traffic to and from the database. But sometimes you will want a fresh copy of an item. Simply click the Refresh button (circled here in blue) to force a fresh copy of the item to be fetched from the database.