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LaTeX code for Breadboard
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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{ulem}
\usepackage{a4wide}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{hyperref}
% commands generated by html2latex
\begin{document}\href{/index.php/File:Breadboard.jpg}{
\includegraphics{/AnnokiUploadAuth.php/thumb/0/09/Breadboard.jpg/450px-Breadboard.jpg}}
\begin{tabular}
\subsection{Contents}
\begin{itemize}
\item \hyperlink{Introduction}{1Introduction}
\item \hyperlink{Ingredients}{2Ingredients}
\item \hyperlink{Steps}{3Steps}
\begin{itemize}
\item \hyperlink{Start}{3.1Start}
\item \hyperlink{Sort_and_Search}{3.2Sort and Search}
\item \hyperlink{View}{3.3View}
\end{itemize}
\item \hyperlink{Example}{4Example}
\item \hyperlink{Suggested_Activities}{5Suggested Activities}
\item \hyperlink{Discussion}{6Discussion}
\begin{itemize}
\item \hyperlink{Description}{6.1Description}
\item \hyperlink{Who_has_worked_on_creating_it}{6.2Who has worked on creating it}
\item \hyperlink{Availability}{6.3Availability}
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{tabular}\hypertarget{Introduction}{}
\subsection{Introduction}
BreadBoard is an experimental interface for exploring the Orlando database. It allows the contents of the entire database to be viewed at once on a single screen, thereby allowing researchers to easily find and view authors in a way that shows a compact representation of their connections to other authors, places, literary references, organizations, and people. BreadBoard's representation can be sorted by the first letter of the author's last name, the historical period, or other search parameters.\hypertarget{Ingredients}{}
\subsection{Ingredients}
\begin{enumerate}
\item No external resources are required.
\end{enumerate}\hypertarget{Steps}{}
\subsection{Steps}
\begin{enumerate}\hypertarget{Start}{}
\subsubsection{Start}
\item Go to the Orlando BreadBoard link at \href{http://medusa.arts.ualberta.ca/development/protected/prototype/breadboard/}{http://medusa.arts.ualberta.ca/development/protected/prototype/breadboard/} [it is not currently live, but soon will be!]
\item Log in with your Orlando user name and password
\item Wait for the page to load.
\item You will see a list of writers' names that are in the Orlando textbase.
\item These names are organized alphabetically by default.\hypertarget{Sort_and_Search}{}
\subsubsection{Sort and Search}
\item To sort by a writer's last name or historical period, click on "Alphabet" or "Historical Period".
\item To search, click on the "Search" option to the right of the "Sort by" option.
\item You can choose to limit the search results by scope and date.
\item To limit by scope, select or deselect "British Women Writers," "Male Writers," and/or "Other Women Writers."
\item To limit by date, select the desired date range from the drop down menu. Select only one date range.\hypertarget{View}{}
\subsubsection{View}
\item Click on a writer's last name to see more information about that writer.
\item Wait for the page to load.
\item In the "Results Summary" tab, a summary of the writer's life and work appears below the writer's name.
\item The "Results Summary" tab shows a listing of all of the different links in the Orlando textbase entry for that writer.
\item These links are colour coded according to whether they relate to "Social Networks," "Organizations," "Literary Relations," or "Places." The colours correspond to the colours for each tab listed underneath the information about the writer.
\item Click on the "Social Networks," "Organizations," "Literary Relations," or "Places" tabs to see a tag cloud with large and small links.
\item The links that have the highest frequency within the entry are larger and bolder than entries that occur less frequently.
\item These tag clouds give an overview of the organizations, social networks (people), literary relations, and places with which the author was associated, based on how frequently these names, places, organizations, and works of literature are mentioned in the entry.
\item These tag clouds can be narrowed by deselecting or selecting the tags that appear on the left-hand side of each tab.
\item Click on a link to view its context in the writer's entry, which is extracted from the selected writer's entry in the Orlando textbase.
\item Wait for the page to load.
\end{enumerate}\hypertarget{Example}{}
\subsection{Example}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Sort the results by historical period.
\item Choose the writer whose name appears first by the date 0612. The writer is Sappho.
\item Click on Sappho.
\item Wait for the page to load.
\item Click on the "Places" tab.
\item You will see a list of the different places associated with Sappho due to their mention in the Orlando entry on Sappho. Greece appears largest, with Egypt slightly smaller, and Germany and Italy are much smaller and less bold than Egypt and Greece because they occur less frequently.
\item Narrow the places in the tag cloud by delecting the tags on the left-hand side of the tab.
\item Click on "Italy" to see the context of the link to Italy within the writer's entry. This can also be done with "Greece," "Egypt," and "Germany."
\end{enumerate}\hypertarget{Suggested_Activities}{}
\subsection{Suggested Activities}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Find out which people have close associations with J. K. Rowling.
\item Find out which organizations have connections to Jane Austen that only involve textual reception.
\item How is Julia Kristeva connected to Marcel Proust?
\item Which people are most prominent in W. B. Yeats' social networks, and why?
\end{enumerate}\hypertarget{Discussion}{}
\subsection{Discussion}
It should be remembered that this is an experimental interface that has not yet been officially released. This means that some bugs can be expected.\hypertarget{Description}{}
\subsubsection{Description}
A document describing Breadboard is available here: \href{http://entry.tapor.ca/?id=25}{http://entry.tapor.ca/?id=25}\hypertarget{Who_has_worked_on_creating_it}{}
\subsubsection{Who has worked on creating it}
Susan Brown guided the prototype design from a literary historical perspective, and Milena Radzikowska and Stan Ruecker led the design. Mark Bieber designed and coded the prototype with assistance on the API side from Jeffery Antoniuk.
Work on the Breadboard interface has been generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.\hypertarget{Availability}{}
\subsubsection{Availability}
Online, with account by arrangement with orlando[the at sign]ualberta.ca.
\href{/index.php/General:Digital_Humanities_2011_Workshop}{ Click here to return to Workshop Homepage}
\end{document}
