Prototype: Section III, Screen 2

Screen 2, Main Search Screen

(See the graphics files with the filename ISF_1.xxx)

Areas of Screen 2, Main Search Screen

1. General Menu - (top - includes "Sessions", "Educational Access", "Search/Display Options", "Background Information", "Communications", "Help" and "Download")
2. Query Definition Bar - (includes "Corpus", "Medium", "Find Site", "Time Period", "Language", "Script" and "Collection Owner)
3. Page Navigation Menu - (right - includes "Welcome/Exit", "Main Search", "Results Summary", "Corpus Table of Contents", "List of Text Divisions", "Text Spatial Search", "Image Results", "View/Desktop")
4. Keywords or Phrases area
5. Text or Publication Number area
6. "List Results by" area

General Menu

(Includes "Session", "Educational Access", "Search/Display Options", "Background Information", "Communications", "Help" and "Download")

* Active mouse movements of the General Menu

* Hovering the mouse over the list label, (e.g., "Background Information"), results in display of the drop down list of possible selections. The list disappears when the mouse is moved off the list label.
* The ability to select from the General Menu drop down lists is NOT a required functionality in the prototype.

Query Definition Bar

(Includes: CORPUS, MEDIUM, FIND SITE, TIME PERIOD, LANGUAGE, SCRIPT, COLLECTION OWNER). (See ISF_1.xxx)

* It must be possible to demonstrate the results of making a selection from the following options in the CORPUS drop down menu:

* Dead Sea Scrolls
* Elephantine Papyri
* Ugaritic Tablets

* It must be possible to demonstrate the results of making a selection from the following options in the MEDIUM drop down menu:

* Parchment Manuscript
* Papyri Manuscript
* Clay Tablet

* It must be possible to demonstrate the results of making a selection from the following options in the FIND SITE drop down menu:

* Elephantine (Egypt)
* Qumran (Israel)
* Ras Shamra (Syria)

* It must be possible to demonstrate the results of making a selection from the following options in the in the TIME PERIOD drop down menu:

* 0-100 CE
* 100-0 BCE
* 200-100 BCE
* Persian Period (539-333 BCE)
* Late Bronze II (1400-1200 BCE)

* It must be possible to demonstrate the results of making a selection from the following options in the LANGUAGE drop down menu:

* Aramaic
* Hebrew
* Ugaritic

* It must be possible to demonstrate the results of making a selection from the following options in the SCRIPT drop down menu:

* Aramaic
* Cuneiform (Alphabetic)
* Jewish Square Script

* NONE of the selections under "COLLECTION OWNER" need to be demonstrable.

* The mouse movement (see below) on the drop-down menus of the Query Definition Bar and selection by mouse click must be demonstrable.

* Mouse movement on the Query Definition Bar

Hovering the mouse over a selection results in:

a. Display of the options under that button.
b. The area between the double lines under the button turns blue.
c. Moving the mouse down the selection list turns the circles blue and the text italic and blue. (See Figure 2.5 below.) The blue disappears when the mouse moves off of that option.
d. Selecting an option (clicking on it) results in the circle and text remaining blue after the mouse has been moved off.
e. Deselecting is accomplished by clicking again.
f. In the prototype only one selection within the same drop down menu can be made.
g. A selection can be made by a mouse "click" and removed by an additional mouse "click."

* The current selection should be displayed underneath the double line. (See Figure 2.5 below.) In the case where no selection has been made, "all" should be displayed. This is the default.

* Sub-options

a. Under "SCRIPT", the option, "Cuneiform" has sub-options.

Text or Publication Number Area

1. It must be possible to demonstrate selecting any one of the selections from the drop-down menu:

1Q
KTU
TAD

2. The box to the right must allow text input by the user.

3. It must be possible to demonstrate the results of selecting any of the prototype texts using the Text or Publication Number Selection Area

* The box to the left of the"Text or Publication Number" area should be a drop down menu. The selections are: KTU, Q1, and TAD. (See Figure 2.7 below.)
* The box to the right is an input form (fill in the blank).
* However, if KTU is selected or TAD is selected, the right box should be formatted with a line a dot and a line as is shown below in Figure 2.7.

Page Navigation Menu

(lower right - includes "Welcome/Exit", "Main Search", "Results Summary", "Corpus Table of Contents", "List of Text Divisions", "Text Spatial Search", "Image Results" and "View/Desktop") -

1. It must be possible to show which pages are available by graying out the ones that are not available.

2. It must be possible to demonstrate navigation of the pages by clicking the options of the page menu that are not grayed out.

Note that the purpose of the Page Navigation Menu is two-fold:

1. It is navigational in that clicking on a page label navigates the user to that screen.
2. It also shows what options are available. For example, if the user has not yet clicked "Begin Search" on the "Main Search" screen, the only page label option that is not grayed out is "Welcome/Exit".

* Page Navigation Menu Button Action

* Clicking on any of the page labels that are not grayed out navigates the user to that page.
* The current page text label (the page navigated too), become blue, bold and italic.
* The current page button background color becomes the same as the general background color on the page (brown on screens 2-3, gray on Screen 6, Image Results and Screen 7, View/Desktop)
* The current page button border disappears.

* Page Navigation

* Only those pages which are applicable to the user at any given time are not grayed out.

For example, in the illustration above, only the "Welcome/Exit" and "Main Search" labels are not be grayed out.
That is, at this point the user can either return to the "Welcome/Exit" screen or proceed with the "Main Search Screen." No other screens are available, and therefore the labels are grayed out.

* All preceding pages that have been viewed remain active (not grayed out and user can return to them) unless the user clicks "New Search" on the Main Search Screen.

* If the User clicks on the "New Search" button:

* The page labels all gray out except "Welcome/Exit" and "Main Search".
* The user is navigated to Screen 2, Main Search Screen
* All variables are reset to the default settings.

(Note: that the borders between Corpus Table of Contents, List of Text Divisions and Text Spatial Search are dotted lines.)

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For additional information write to mlundber@inscriptifact.com or lihunt@inscriptifact.com.