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There are two different kinds of HTML pages in the Blake Archive: static pages that are written in HTML and served when a browser requests the page, and a second kind created by generating an HTML page from an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) file and a set of instructions for creating the HTML page.
You encounter the first, ordinary kind in our "top-level" pages (such as the Archive home page, project updates, and this help document). But when you view one of Blake's works, for example, one of Blake's illuminated books, you are viewing HTML pages that are being created from the XML source documents and a set of instructions for creating those page.
The instructions for creating the page in which you view one of Blake's works are managed by an XML publishing system called eXist, which combines the XML file with instructions written in XML query language (xQuery) and instructions written in eXtensible Stylesheet Language: Transformations (XSLT) in order to "publish" the file for viewing in the browser. Erdman's The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake is also published through eXist. The bibliographies, collection lists, and articles are also XML pages, but they are published using XML and XSLT without without xQuery or the eXist database.
For Blake's works and Erdman, eXist also handles the Archive's indexing and search functions.
These help instructions apply to the published works portions of the Archive, not the static HTML pages or the bibliographies, collection lists, or articles.
Some users may be interested to know that all XML documents on the Blake Archive conform to a set of requirements that are codified in a Document Type Definition (DTD). The two DTDs for Blake Archive are known as the Blake Object Description (BOD) and the Blake Archive Description (BAD). Other documents (Erdman, bibliographies and collection lists, articles) conform to a simplified Text Encoding Initiative DTD (TEI-Lite), but static HTML pages do not conform to a DTD.
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Let us assume that you have arrived at the William Blake Archive and selected "Works in the Archive" from the main table of contents page. Up to this point, all navigation has taken place in ordinary Web pages; upon selecting "Works in the Archive," you arrive at the DynaWeb portion of the site. From here you may proceed to the index of all of the Archive's illuminated books or non-illuminated materials (also known as a "Collection" index), and then from there to individual indexes for each of the various works in illuminated printing or non-illuminated media (e.g., engravings, water color drawings and paintings, etc.) in the Archive (also known as the "Work" indexes).
The Work indexes provide links to individual copies of the work in the Archive, as well as a brief prose introduction and a list of all extant copies.Note that there are five icons displayed across the bottom of the Work index (and that these same five icons are available on many of the Archive's DynaWeb pages). The icons are:
Home: Returns you to the Archive's main table of contents page. 
Navigator: Invokes the Archive's Navigator feature (described below). 
Search: Brings you to the Archive's main search page, where you can initiate searches for either text or images (described below). 
Java/Non-Java: Toggles back and before between the Archive's Java and non-Java modes (described below). 
Help: Displays this help document. In addition, two other links are offered from the Work index: the link at top left returns you to the collection index, while the "Bibliography for the Work" link, at top right, connects you to the Archive's Specific Bibliographies for the work at hand.
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Collection Index
At the top left of the table of contents page for the copy (such as The Book of Thel, copy F) is a link to the Collection index. ("Collection" is a special DynaWeb term, not to be confused with, say, art "collection" in the more usual sense.) For The Book of Thel, copy F the Collection index is identified as the "Illuminated Book Index." The Illuminated Book Index contains listings for all works classified as illuminated books in the Archive. Similarly, non-illuminated works are contained in the "Non-Illuminated Materials Index."
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Work Index
At the top right of the table of contents page for the copy (such as The Book of Thel, copy F) is a link to the Work index. ("Work," in our terminology, refers to the title given to the collected copies of an illuminated book or other artifact.) For The Book of Thel, copy F the Work index is identified as the "THEL Index." The THEL Index contains listings for all electronic editions of individual copies of The Book of Thel in the Archive.
Each individual listing in the Work index page (there are four in the case of The Book of Thel, one for each copy published by the Archive) includes the following information: the full title of the work, the copy designation, the printing date for the particular copy, and the name of the institution that owns the particular copy of the work.
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Copy Index
The copy index presents a list of the plates that make up a particular copy of a work. Each plate is numbered in several ways, first by its position in the particular copy, and then by its position in the printed editions of Bentley, Erdman, and Keynes: thus "The Book of Thel, copy F, plate 1 (Bentley 1, Erdman i, Keynes i)." Each line of plate numbers is a link that will take you to the main view of that plate.
For ease of navigation, when necessary (as in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Innocence and Experience, for example), the Copy index also lists titles of individual plates. Thus, in Songs of Innocence and Experience, copy Z, the listing for plate 42 includes the title of the poem, "The Tyger."
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Copy/Work Information
The title of the work functions as a link that will display detailed information about the individual copy of an illuminated or non-illuminated work--its bibliographical characteristics, location, and provenance (see below). The institution or individual that presently owns that copy of the work is also indicated here.
The same title link also lists the printing date for the particular copy of the work.
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Electronic Edition Information
This link takes you to front matter for the electronic edition of this copy of this work. The front matter includes credits, technical specifications, and a statement of editorial responsibility.
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Preview Mode
Preview Mode offers electronic editions of works lacking only two features, thus allowing the Archive to publish a greater number of high-quality images in the shortest span of time. Like the standard presentation of Blake's works in the Archive, works in Preview Mode will be in full and accurate color, with enlargements, and with searchable transcriptions of any texts, including even the briefest of inscriptions.
All works in Preview Mode will bear a clear indication that they are indeed in "Preview," both in all relevant tables of contents and on the basic Object View pages:
- For tables of contents, the title of the work will be followed by "[preview]" (in either blue or red).
- On object view pages, each object title will be followed by "[preview]."
When viewing a Preview object, features such as ImageSizer and textual transcription views will be available, as they are in the full editions of all works in the Archive. The only functions that will not be available in Preview Mode are image search and Inote. Thus, works in Preview will not offer descriptions of visual motifs, nor will those visual motifs be searchable.
As we add many works in Preview, we will gradually shift them toward fully functional displays that will make image search and Inote available.
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Object View
The basic browsing interface to Blake's works in the Blake Archive is designed around the individual physical item or "object," such as a single plate, painting, or drawing. This "Object View Page" has as its main element an inline image of the object, with a variety of options presented using buttons, links, and pull-down menus.
Object View (in background) with Enlargement window open at top left and Transcription window at right. Selecting certain options in the Blake Archive will open a new browser window (if a window is not already available) or use an available window for the new page if such a window is open. This makes it easier for you to compare transcriptions and images (in parallel windows) and to view enlargements alongside the inline images or transcriptions. Note, however, that additional windows may appear directly on top of or directly underneath existing windows--so occasionally you may need to drag a window out of the way to see what's behind it.
Bear in mind that, because some links are targeted to these additional windows, it may seem that nothing is happening when you click on a navigational element within the main window: in this situation, you should check for additional browser windows, which may be minimized or iconized on your desktop or taskbar: this is where your results are likely to be found.
[Remember that you can always tell what windows are open by looking at the icons (on the taskbar at the bottom of your screen in Windows 95, for instance); clicking on one of those icons will bring its window to the top. You should also be aware that windows can be manipulated in various ways: they can be moved from one place to another on your screen, and their sizes can be quickly and easily changed. When dealing with multiple windows, you will want to know how to make basic changes. In most operating systems, you can move a window by clicking and, by holding the mouse button down, "grabbing" the bar that runs across the top of it as you drag the window where you want it. You can change the dimensions of a window similarly, by clicking and grabbing the edges or corners of the window and then (again holding the mouse button down) changing the dimensions of the window as needed. (For more detailed instructions, see the Help documentation for your operating system.) A little experimentation will make you comfortable with these simple operations, and your use of the Blake Archive will be far more satisfactory, because it is designed to take advantage of multiple windows.]
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Previous | Next
These links, at the tops of some pages, take you forward or backward in a sequence of related objects, such as the plates of an illuminated book or a series of drawings.
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Copy/Work Information
This page provides detailed information about the individual copy of an illuminated book or non-illuminated work--its characteristics, location, and provenance. Copy information is linked from the title and copy designation for each work at the Object View level (just above the inline image); information about the present location and owner of the work is also available by clicking the © symbol at the bottom left of each inline image; and, on the Java version of the site, by pushing the "Info" button on the ImageSizer control panel (see below).Table of Contents , or to exit Help, simply reselect your other browser window.
Text and Image Options
Your Web browser will open a new window when you pull down any of the following choices from the menu labelled "Text & Image Options": Image Enlargement, Illustration Description, Textual Transcription, Object & Textual Notes. Don't forget that if you minimize (or iconize) the window, the output will still be directed to it. If you close the window and then click on another link targeted to the Text window (copy information, transcriptions, or illustration information), a new copy of the window will open.
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Image Enlargement Window
This window appears when you select the "Image Enlargement" link in the navigational table below the inline image of the object in the main window. The enlargement window reproduces the inline image at a higher resolution: 300 dots per inch (dpi) for the enlargement as opposed to 100 dpi for the inline image.
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Illustration Information
This page contains descriptions, provided by the editors, of illustrations and their components. The descriptions are keyed to two simple grid-overlays, one that divides the object into quarters and a second for the entire object with no divisions (for further details, see the explanation of Inote, below).Table of Contents , or to exit Help, simply reselect your other browser window.
Textual Transcription
This page provides a diplomatic transcription of Blake's text, including capitalization and punctuation, line breaks, catchwords, and other textual features of the plate.
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Editors' Notes
This page displays editorial notes associated with the object represented in the main window. There are two types of notes in the Blake Archive: textual notes and object notes. Textual notes concern our editorial representation of Blake's text, and are generally associated with a specific line in the transcription. You can reach these notes by clicking on the "n" links in the textual transcriptions. Object notes apply to the material object as a whole. You can access these notes by clicking on the "[n]" at the top of the textual transcription. Not all transcriptions have notes.
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Comparison
Users of the Blake Archive can instantly compare the impression displayed in the current Object View Page with other impressions printed from the same copper plate (using Bentley numbers as a cross-reference). The default choice is to compare "All Copies": simply click the "Compare" button and your browser will open a new window displaying the other impressions (in chronological sequence) from left to right.
Note that the plate information displayed above each of these images is an active link. Selecting the link will load that impression in the main Object View window--with all of the standard Text and Image options available to you. The Comparison window thus becomes a powerful extension of the Archive's existing navigational structure, allowing you to use its images as the basis for lateral navigation of the Archive's collections.
The caption listed above the plate information for each image provides the following information: the full title of the work from which the image is drawn, the copy designation, the printing date for the particular copy, and the name of the institution that owns the particular copy of the work.
The images displayed in the Comparison window are offered at a single consistent size, and not a size relative to their actual proportions, as is the case in the Object View window.
Sometimes you may wish to select only some impressions for comparison, either for purposes of placing them side by side in the Comparison window (without intervening images) or simply to conserve bandwidth. The impression currently displayed in the Object View Page will always be included in the Comparison window. To select additional images for inclusion, you may hold down the CTRL (Control) key and click on one or more of the copies listed; then click the Compare button to open the Comparison window. You may also hold down the SHIFT key, click first on one copy, and then a second copy--all copies listed in between the two you've selected will be displayed for comparison once you click the Compare button to open the Comparison window. (While the CTRL and SHIFT options may sound awkward, just a few moments of experimentation should clarify their function.)
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Indexes
The pull-down menu labelled "Indexes" on the right-hand side of the browser allows you to return to any of the Archive's previous indexes: of Plates, of Copies, or of Works.
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Left and Right Arrows
The left and right arrows (beneath the "Text & Image Options" and "Indexes" menus, respectively) may be used to move forward or backward in the work's sequence of Object View pages. They behave identically to the Previous/Next links at the top of the screen.
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Navigator
The icon labelled "Navigator" will open a small subsidiary window displaying three menus, corresponding to the Collection Index, the Work Index, and the Copy Index. By selecting choices from each of these menus (and then clicking the corresponding "Go to" button) users can navigate from any Object View Page in the Archive to any other Object View Page, or to any of the aforementioned indexes. Some users may find it convenient simply to leave the Navigator open on their desktop and use it as their primary means of traversing the Archive's collections.
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Java | Non-Java
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At the bottom of all DynaWeb pages, beginning with the Index pages and including the Object View Pages and Search Results pages, you are offered an icon for the Java site (if you are using the non-Java site) or the Non-Java site (if you are using the Java site). Both sites draw on the same underlying materials, but they use two different style sheets to present it. The Java site includes special features: Inote, IATH's image-annotation program; the ability to make inline images larger or smaller at will, and the ability to keep a history of any text or image search. The non-Java site omits these features. We give you the choice between the Java and non-Java sites because not all browsers or operating systems can accommodate Java, and because sometimes, even if your setup is Java-capable, you may wish for reasons of speed or dependability to forego the Java features of the Blake Archive.
We recommend Netscape Navigator 3.01 or higher (or Internet Explorer's equivalent) as your point of entry for the Java portion of the Archive; note also that Java demands a 32-bit operating system such as Windows 95. Internet Explorer 6.x for Windows does not include Java support in its default installation, but you can manually install the necessary components. Click here for directions.
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Displaying Greek and Hebrew Fonts
Blake included brief phrases and fragments of phrases written in Hebrew and Greek characters in a few of his works. Depending upon your browser, you may be able to view Hebrew- and Greek-font transcriptions of these phrases in the archive's "textual transcription" windows.
For Netscape:
At present, Greek and Hebrew fonts cannot be displayed in Netscape. In Netscape, these fonts should appear as question marks ("???") in the "textual transcription" windows (one question mark per character). For full translations of the Greek and/or Hebrew in a given plate, please consult the textual notes for each individual phrase.
For Microsoft Internet Explorer, versions 5.0-5.5:
Hebrew and Greek fonts can be displayed in Internet Explorer. The following directions for displaying these fonts are based closely on the directions offered by Alan Wood's Unicode Resources. For more comprehensive instructions for displaying foreign alphabetical characters for Explorer, versions 3.02-5.5, please consult either Alan Wood's web site on Setting Up Windows Internet Explorer 5.5 for Multilingual and Unicode Support or Unicode's own page on Display Problems.
Setting Up Internet Explorer (versions 5.0-5.5) to Display Hebrew and Greek fonts: Some Basic Directions:
1. In the "Tools" menu (on the top menu bar), select "Internet Options...".
2. In the "Internet Options..." dialogue box, click the "Fonts..." button.
3. In the "Fonts..." dialogue box, select a "language script" (either Greek or Hebrew). Note that the "language scripts" listed are those that Internet Explorer can support, not just those fonts already installed on your computer (see directions for installing Greek and Hebrew fonts below).
4. In the "Fonts..." dialogue box, select a "Web Page Font" and a "Plain Text Font." These two fonts do not have to be identical.
5. Click "OK."
6. Restart your browser.
You should now be able to view Blake's Greek and Hebrew in the "Textual Transcription" windows. If not, it may be because your browser still needs to install these fonts. To obtain these fonts, you will have to download them from Microsoft.
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Clicking the "Search" icon at the bottom of the screen will take you the Archive's primary Search page. There are two basic types of searches available in the Blake Archive: text search and image search.
Image Searching
At the top of the Image search page, you must make an important choice:
- find objects which contain any of your search terms, or
- find only those objects which contain all of your search terms
The effect of this choice (all is the default) is to select the boolean operator that will govern the rest of your search terms:
- If you choose "objects which contain any of your search terms," then you are choosing to combine multiple search terms with OR as the boolean operator, so a search with eagle | vine selected will search for eagle [or] vine, and will return any object (such as a plate or a painting)--that contains either term.
- But if you choose "only those objects which contain all of your search terms," then you are choosing to combine multiple search terms with AND as the boolean operator, so a search with eagle | vine selected will search for eagle [and] vine, and will return only those objects (those plates or paintings, for instance) which contain all of the terms specified.
Image searches use a controlled vocabulary, represented in the image search form as an extensive table of terms, with checkboxes next to each term. For convenience, the terms are categorized under the headings "figure" (the largest category, with some subcategories), "animal," "vegetation," "object," and "structure," and you can jump to any one of these categories from the table at the top of the image search form.
At the end of each category of the long checklist there is a search button--clicking any of these buttons (there are several) will submit, at once, all search terms that have been chosen from any and all categories of the checklist.
Search results for image searches come in the form of a list of the plates that match search criteria, with a number next to each indicating the number of hits in that item ("item" such as a plate), with the total number of hits appearing at the top of the list. Note that when conducting "All" searches (using AND as your boolean operator) the number of hits returned is merely quantitative. Thus, if your "All" search is for eagle [and] vine, a single plate with both of these search terms would actually return "2" hits--one for each term--even though only one plate containing both terms may have been found.
Clicking on any item from this list takes you to a description of an illustration that matches your search criteria. Beneath that description there is an Inote button. Click on it and you will get a copy of the relevant image in Inote, zoomed to the area of the image that contains the component matching your search terms.
Note that the list of search results can also be expanded to display more specific records of illustration and component hits by clicking the blue triangle to the left of any search result, as shown here:
Please note: Image searching is not available for works in Preview Mode.
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Text Searching
Text searches may be governed by a "keyword," by the boolean operators "and" or "or," by a "phrase" (text string), or by the "proximity" of two terms. The default search option is a search by keyword. Text searching is not case sensitive; the difference between upper and lower case letters is ignored.
In the default "keyword" search, the Archive will search for instances of the word you enter in the Text Search window. For the most reliable results, it is best to enter only a single word when performing a keyword search.
The Archive also allows you to search more than a single word at once. If, for example, you enter
cat is rat in the Text Search window, you may choose among four kinds of results:
Boolean operator "or": cat or is or rat Boolean operator "and": cat and is and rat Phrase: "cat is rat" Proximity: (please see explanation below) For an explanation of the difference between "and" and "or" searches, see the beginning of the section on image searches, above.
A "proximity" search allows you to search for two words within a certain distance (designated by you) of each other. "Proximity" searches require a very specific syntax. Here is the template for how to perform these searches:
keyword #1 within # words of keyword #2
Here is an example:
heaven within 10 words of hell
This search asks the Archive to find all the instances where the two keywords "heaven" and "hell" appear within ten words of each other. You can expand the scope of your search by increasing the number of words within which both of your keywords must fall. However, because a proximity-search "hit" will highlight only the first of your two keywords, you may find it impractical to increase the range of your search too much. For example, a proximity search for "heaven within 500 words of hell" may yield a greater number of hits, but it may be difficult to locate the second (because un-highlighted) of your two keywords.
Please note that boolean operator searches do not search across more than one line of text in the Archive's transcriptions. Thus, a boolean operator "and" search for "cat is rat" would yield no hits if the individual words "cat" and "is" and "rat" were not on the same line of text.
One the other hand, if necessary, "phrase" searches (like "proximity" searches) can search over more than one line of text in the Archive's transcriptions.
The Search Type pull-down menu allows you to select the body of materials you wish to search. A Transcription search will search the Archive's diplomatic transcriptions of the alphanumeric content of Blake's objects. An Illustration Description search will search the prose commentary on Blake's images authored by the Archive's editors. A Work Title search will allow you to find works in the Archive by entering their title, or a known fragment of their title. Note that we have endeavored to compensate for differences in spelling and usage between Blake's titles and modern conventions. For example, you could find impressions of Blake's famous "Tyger Tyger, burning bright" by entering either "The Tyger" or "The Tiger" (or "Tyger" or "Tiger"). Likewise, you could access the Archive's copies of Songs of Innocence and of Experience by entering either that full title or just a fragment (though entering only the fragment "Songs" would also find the Archive's separately printed copies of Songs of Innocence).
None of the Archive's searches is case-sensitive.
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Wildcard Searches
The Blake Archive allows you to perform "wildcard" searches when you are conducting a Text Search. A "wildcard" is a placeholder for a letter or letters in an individual word. It allows you to enter incomplete words in the Text Search window. When you use a wildcard, the Archive searches for all the words that would complete the incomplete word you entered. You can use wildcards in any of the five kinds of searches offered by the Archive.
The Archive provides two wildcard characters: * and ?.
The ? wildcard is a placeholder for a single character in a word. For example, if you entered hea? in the Text Search window, search results would include heal, heat, and hear. Note that a Text Search will not leave a ? wildcard empty. Thus, the search entry cat? would yield cats, for example, but not cat. You can use more than one ? wildcard in a single search word.
The * wildcard is a placeholder for any set of 0 or more characters, up to the end of a word. If, for example, you entered heav* in the Text search window, among your matching results would be heaven, heavens, heavenly, heave, heavd, and heavily. In general, it is best not to use the * wildcard at the beginning of a search entry. However, you can use the * wildcard in the middle of a word. Thus, the search entry t*r would yield results including their, Tyger, and tear.
Please note as well that neither wildcard can substitute for an entire word.
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Clear Search
When you initiate either a text or an image search in the Blake Archive, DynaWeb will keep track of your search criteria as you move through subsequent levels of the site. So, for example, if you've done a text search on "eagle" and then you ask to go to the index, the index you'll get will be an index of plates that match the search term "eagle," not an index of all the plates in the book. In order to make it possible to reset to the default view of the material, we have put a "clear search" option in the navigational table that appears (after a search is performed) at the top of the main search page, the text window, and the search results pages.Table of Contents , or to exit Help, simply reselect your other browser window.
| Inote in Main Window: Inote is open to the right (note grid overlay), with panner at top left and annotation window at bottom left. |
Inote is Java software developed at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia; it requires a 32-bit operating system (such as Windows 95) to run. Inote is not an image-editing program: its purpose is to provide a way to annotate images. It does this by superimposing multiple clear overlays on top of the image and identifying details by outlining regions of the image by means of these overlays. Annotations (which may include text, sound, images, and hyperlinks) appear in separate windows, brought up by clicking on regions defined by the overlays. If there are multiple overlays, only the topmost is active: you can use the overlay-menu control to bring other overlays to the top. If there are overlapping details in a single overlay, clicking in an ambiguous region will bring up a dialogue box that will allow you to make a choice.
Please note that the Inote feature is not available for works in Preview Mode.
Overlays in the Blake Archive are constructed on one of two grids, with regions labeled as follows:
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| C | D |
| E |
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Help With Inote
Inote has its own Web-accessible help documentation, which is available at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/inote/help.html. If you click on the help button within Inote itself, you will see this documentation of Inote's functions, which include the ability to manipulate frame and image independently, the ability to control the display characteristics of overlays, use of the scrollbars or (optionally) the panner to navigate images larger than the frame, and the authoring of annotations.
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Inote in the Main Window
If you click on the Inote button under the inline plate image in the main window, and if your Web browser is Java-capable, you'll get a copy of this IATH software in a separate window alongside your browser window. If you click within the Inote window, you can read annotations attached to specific sections of the image. You can also use the scrollbars (which appear when the image is larger than the frame)--or, optionally, the panner--to move around the image. More information is available from the Inote help button.Table of Contents , or to exit Help, simply reselect your other browser window.
Inote in Image Search Results
If you click on the Inote button that appears under each component description on an image-search results page, you will get a copy of IATH's Inote software in a separate window, alongside your browser window, with the Inote frame zoomed to the specific region of the image that contains the item you were searching for. When Inote starts up, it will also open the annotations associated with that region of the image. Although Inote is zoomed to a particular region of the image, the whole image and all of its annotations are available: just resize the frame and you'll see the rest of the image and overlays. Remember that, by default, only the topmost overlay will be active, but you can use the overlay-menu control to bring other overlays to the top.Table of Contents , or to exit Help, simply reselect your other browser window.
| The ImageSizer: Detail of the Object View Page showing the image display area with the button console and measurements below. |
Images on the Object View page of the Java site are displayed by the ImageSizer Java applet. The chief purpose of this feature is to allow you to look at Blake's plates and other visual materials at their actual physical dimensions, regardless of the resolution of your own monitor. (Note that the measurements for a given object are always provided in centimeters just beneath its image.) In order to view objects at their actual size, the first time that you visit the Archive--and only the first time--you must complete a very simple calibration process, by clicking on the "calibrate" button (as described below). Once you've done so, the images on the Archive's Object View pages will always be consistently displayed at their true size, so long as you continue to access the Archive from the same computer (though you may also choose to turn this feature off at any time). In addition, you may also deliberately "lie" during the calibration process, in order to set the images to display at some particular size (other than their true size) that might be convenient to you.Because of the way Java applets work, we have had to pre-define a fixed amount of space that is allocated to the applet on the page. We selected a size that seemed right to us for these images on a typical display, but you will no doubt find--depending on the resolution of your screen and your calibration of the applet--that images may have a lot of space around them, or else may seem to be cropped by the display area. Note that in either case if you click and hold the mouse button down on the image, you can drag it about inside the display area--panning, in effect. See also the "fit" button, described below.
Info: This will open a box that will tell you the image resolution, the resolution at which the image is being displayed, the size of the image, and any other information that may be associated with the image. NB: if you have enlarged the image to a size you want to keep across the whole site, this info window will tell you what "lie" to use with the Calibration Applet.Table of Contents , or to exit Help, simply reselect your other browser window.100%: If you've used the +/- buttons to enlarge or shrink the image, this will jump you back to the original size (or, if you've calibrated, to a true-size display).
Fit: This will fit the whole image inside the applet's display space, no matter what the calibration setting is (it won't delete your calibration setting--it's just a one-time resizing).
Calibrate: This takes you off to another page with the Calibration Applet, which has its own instructions (on that page). You only need to calibrate once: for the next twenty years, or until you delete it, that information will be stored on your machine (via a cookie) and used by the applet whenever you return to the Archive.
+ : This enlarges the image (you can also use the plus key on the keyboard).
[x]%: This isn't a button, but rather a readout that tells you what percentage you are displaying the image at.
- : This shrinks the image (you can also use the minus key on the keyboard).
