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<li>Iterate as necessary.</li> | <li>Iterate as necessary.</li> | ||
<li>Read items in the panel on the right by clicking them or lassoing them in the main circle. </li> | <li>Read items in the panel on the right by clicking them or lassoing them in the main circle. </li> | ||
+ | <li>If you click on a given magnet, you may be unable to see information that you want. If this is the case, then click on the Display palette and on the "Fields always displayed" dropdown and select more boxes to display. If you return to the magnet, you will now be able to see the extra information in the reading pane on the right. </li> | ||
+ | <li>Zoom in and out with the magnifying glasses in the Tools palette.</li> | ||
<li>Export items from the reading panel for further reading.</li> | <li>Export items from the reading panel for further reading.</li> | ||
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===Example=== | ===Example=== | ||
- | You might be interested in the question: do women writers who have children write less than women writers without children? To address this question, you could load the Orlando collection, and make each dot represent a woman writer. Create magnets 0-9 representing numbers of children. You see immediately that there are diminishing numbers of women writers for each number of children, but there are some writers for every number. However, maybe the ones with more children wrote less. So you create new magnets dealing with measures of prolixity, by looking at the author summary tag, which summarizes a writer’s achievements, for the words “prolific” or “numerous” or “many.” It appears that by these measures, having more children equates to being more prolific. Now the third step is to access the documents, either by export or by logging into Orlando, to pursue further details. | + | You might be interested in the relationship between the terms "think" and "feel" in the works of George Eliot. To address this question, you could load the George Eliot collection, and then create magnets representing "think" and "feel." You can examine the passages in which both terms were mentioned, |
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+ | the question: do women writers who have children write less than women writers without children? To address this question, you could load the Orlando collection, and make each dot represent a woman writer. Create magnets 0-9 representing numbers of children. You see immediately that there are diminishing numbers of women writers for each number of children, but there are some writers for every number. However, maybe the ones with more children wrote less. So you create new magnets dealing with measures of prolixity, by looking at the author summary tag, which summarizes a writer’s achievements, for the words “prolific” or “numerous” or “many.” It appears that by these measures, having more children equates to being more prolific. Now the third step is to access the documents, either by export or by logging into Orlando, to pursue further details. | ||
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<li>Try to find all passages in Romeo and Juliet in which Romeo and Juliet mention the word "hate."</li> | <li>Try to find all passages in Romeo and Juliet in which Romeo and Juliet mention the word "hate."</li> | ||
<li>Try to find the text of all passages in Romeo and Juliet in which the words "love" and "hate" are both mentioned.</li> | <li>Try to find the text of all passages in Romeo and Juliet in which the words "love" and "hate" are both mentioned.</li> | ||
+ | <li>Try to find the text of all passages in George Eliot's works in which the words "think" and "feel" are both mentioned. Click on one of the dots and then find out in which works they are mentioned.</li> | ||
<li>Try moving the objects in the mandala around and zooming in and out.</li> | <li>Try moving the objects in the mandala around and zooming in and out.</li> | ||
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It allows you to do fairly sophisticated visual browsing of any XML document or collection of documents. Parts of documents or entire documents appear as dots around the periphery. You create colourful magnets and assign values to them. These magnets draw the dots into the centre space. There is a text viewer off to the right, so you can see what is inside any given dot. You can also export what you find for later study.
To set up Mandala:
To use Mandala:
You might be interested in the relationship between the terms "think" and "feel" in the works of George Eliot. To address this question, you could load the George Eliot collection, and then create magnets representing "think" and "feel." You can examine the passages in which both terms were mentioned,
the question: do women writers who have children write less than women writers without children? To address this question, you could load the Orlando collection, and make each dot represent a woman writer. Create magnets 0-9 representing numbers of children. You see immediately that there are diminishing numbers of women writers for each number of children, but there are some writers for every number. However, maybe the ones with more children wrote less. So you create new magnets dealing with measures of prolixity, by looking at the author summary tag, which summarizes a writer’s achievements, for the words “prolific” or “numerous” or “many.” It appears that by these measures, having more children equates to being more prolific. Now the third step is to access the documents, either by export or by logging into Orlando, to pursue further details.
A screencast explaining how to use Mandala is here: http://www.ualberta.ca/~sruecker/mandala_demo.mov
A document describing Mandala is available here: http://entry.tapor.ca/?id=23
Mandala was developed with funding from SSHRC by Stefan Sinclair, Anthony Sapp, Matt Patey (McMaster University), Stan Ruecker, Oksana Cheypesh, Constanza Pacher, Rhiannon Gainor (University of Alberta), Sandra Gabriele (York University)
Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Stan Ruecker, Jeffery Antoniuk, Sharon Balazs, Stéfan Sinclair and Matt Patey. “Thinking Beyond the Text: Using the Mandala Browser to Explore Orlando.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2008 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia. June 2-3, 2008.
Gainor, Rhiannon, Stéfan Sinclair, Stan Ruecker, Matt Patey, and Sandra Gabriele. [Forthcoming]. “A Mandala Browser User Study: Visualizing XML Versions of Shakespeare’s Plays.” Visible Language 43(1). 2009.
Ruecker, Stan. “Experimental Interfaces Involving Visual Grouping During Browsing.” Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. 1(1). 2006.
Download from www.humviz.org. See a demo video at www.ualberta.ca/~sruecker/mandala_demo.mov.