Ready to Start a New Query

Instructions:

Set the context by clicking on the top section of the table on the left.
Click in the "Select Boxes" to select a query of multiple words from multiple lists.
NOTA BENE: depending on your browser and your platform the technique for "multiple selections" will differ. Generally [shift-click] will select a contiguous range and [ctrl-click] will select non-contiguous items. You can select things in more than one box!
Click on the "getdocs" button at the top or bottom of the window on the left to see your results.

Welcome to the Charrette Browser

This program is a prototype for a dictionary based browser that delivers citations from the Foulet-Uitti Edition [Chretien de Troyes Chevalier de la Charrette. Paris: Bordas, c.1989] for queries that are assembled from a series of word lists. Each citation carries either one or seven lines of context. A summary of the query precedes the output list of citations and a link to the full text precedes each citation.

The Charrette Homepage

The program was developed by Dr. Peter Batke , Humanities Specialist, Academic Computing, Princeton University.

The semantic categories of Alimentation and Droit were assembled by Daniel M. Solovay, Graduate Student Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University.

Dr. Karl D. Uitti, John N. Woodhull Professor of Modern Languages and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, is the Principal Investigator of the Charrette Project.

The program consists of a Perl script that looks up a series of queries in a dictionary of lists of words of specific semantic categories with pointers to the line numbers in the Foulet-Uitti Edition. The dictionary is created by an exhaustive inventory of the vocabulary of the text, guided by indexes created by Roques and Förster for their respective editions. The perl script assembles the lines that contain the queries and presents them with flexible context of one to seven lines. A summary of the query and links to the full text of the Foulet-Uitti edition are also presented.

The queries are assembled from a series of "select boxes" embedded in an html table in the left window of the browser..

The Netscape Frames interface consists of two side-by-side windows with a 55% - 45% split. The larger window on the left contains the "select boxes" with the lists of words. The window on the right is the target for the output, a summary of the query followed by the actual lines from the Foulet-Uitti edition.

The full text is displayed in the window on the left. The full text browser splits the Foulet-Uitti text into six files of 1000 lines and one file containing the last 200 lines. The full text will be positioned in the left window at the line that contains the query word. Navigation buttons at the top and bottom of the file let the user move to the next or previous 1000 lines or to return to a contents/menu screen. The top section of the smaller window on the left is to reset the browser to start a new query.

In Summary:

On start-up, the two windows of the Charrette Browser contain the semantic and thematic categories on the left and this "Welcome/New Query Screen" on the right.
When a query is submitted by pressing the "getdocs" button - the "Welcome Screen" is replaced by the output of the query.
When the full text behind a citation is requested, the "Query Building Screen" on the left is replaced by the text of the Foulet-Uitti Edition.
A reset button in the top right corner resets the Charrette Browser to the start-up state.