How to Use the K-Web Interface

CURRENT JOURNEY: ( Left window) shows what nodes have been selected in the current session. Clicking on names in the CJ list brings up the textual content in right window and turns the selected node red in middle spider display. [BUG?: selecting a CJ item adds it again to the list and turns both gold]

SPIDER DISPLAY (Middle window): shows nodes (a person's name, object or event) and the connections between them. On mouseover, a yellow popup gives a short description and shows their closest connections (these disappear when you remove the cursor). If a name is partially obscured by another, a mouseover will bring the name to the front. Mouseover of a filament reveals the relationship between nodes in popup. Click and drag on any element to move it (note: if you move it too far away from center, you may have trouble seeing it later; generally zooming out, sometimes in conjunction with rotation, will bring the node into view.

Display Level (top) controls how many "hops" from selected nodes you see; click on minus sign on left end for fewer and plus on right for more. Each click on the line will also do this. ( BUG? Note: bunches on nodes will appear or disappear on roughly the 3 and 8th increment).

A single click on a name/node turns it red (also in timeline below) and brings up textual information in the right-hand window and adds the name in the Current Journey. Visited nodes/names turn gold in the spider display, as do the filaments between them (also in timeline). A double-click centers the name in the spider/Thinkmap display.

Search: typing a (last?) name, if it exists in the K-Web database, will reveal the name in the spider display (and pull up the bio on right side?). It is not case sensitive. Hit return or the search button. If the item is not in the database, search will do nothing (or play a bonk sound). You can search on first name, but it will pull up the 1st instance in alphalist.

Zoom: When the spider display is selected (by clicking anywhere, a left arrow rotates the constellation of nodes counter-clockwise, the right arrow clockwise. The up arrow moves you closer to the constellation, the down arrow zooms out. Names get larger and bolder the closer you are to them.

With center window selected, hitting control and space bar together (or browser refresh button) eliminate gold nodes and links in spider, but does not clear current journey list.

RIGHT HAND CONTENT WINDOW:

Clicking on a name in blue hyperlink will display that name in red in the spider display, and will display that node's content in right window, and append the name to CJ on left. To return to the previous item, click the back button (OR right-click the window and choose back), or the name in any of the displays.

Selecting a multimedia link will open another window in your browser (currently this does not work). To return to the K-Web, close or minimize that window, click on any part of the K-Web display,(or select Burkeweb Demo from your task bar). Previously visited links will be in gold? [if you bring up the same text page in later session they are not?]

The size of content window can be changed by carefully clicking and dragging its left or right side. Content can be scrolled via dragging the grey vertical bar on the far right, or by using the up and down arrows. Also space bar moves you down one screen.

TIME BAR (bottom center): Central red selected node in spider display will appear in red in the timebar showing the time (and span of years the item existed, if relevant). Previously selected items (in CJ) will be gold. Mousing over a name in the time bar will show oneliner popup. Clicking on an item in timebar will reveal that item in time bar and spider dispay in red, and reveal textual info on right (and add to CJ: [BUG?]

Clicking and dragging left or right anywhere from the dates down allow you to see earlier and later dates and their associated content.

Note: we are currently loading files, so not all are available. Sometimes a more complete alphabetical list of names and the content is at:

http://scylla.cse.ucsc.edu:8080/burke/index.htm

Please let me know if these need clarified

Thanks!

Patrick McKercher pat13@dslextreme.com

3.04