Illuminating the Manuscript Leaves:
Navigating this Collection

Navigating images | Navigating compound objects | Navigating metadata

Effective use of the images and information available on this website requires an understanding of the software. Instructions for navigating between the images and information of multi-sided documents, and about zooming in on details in the images, are provided below. See Help & Settings for additional information, including keyword search, advanced search, browse, and My Favorites.

Navigating Images

One-sided documents, such as the one below, display a large image (A) next to a smaller "thumbnail" image (B) bounded by a red border. Descriptive information about the image, also known as metadata, appears beneath the image.

Clicking on the larger image (A) will allow you to zoom in to see more detail in the image. As you zoom in, the red box on the thumbnail image (B) will show you which part of the larger image you are viewing. Practice zooming in on a document.

The gray image toolbar near the top of the page (shown below) also enables manipulation of the image on your screen.

From left to right, the tools may be used as follows:

• Click the magnifying glasses to magnify or reduce the view. The zoom percentage is displayed in the text box.
• Click the arrows to move left, right, up, or down within an image.
• Click the page icons to view an image at 100 percent, view the entire image, or view the image within the page width.
• Click the rotate icons to rotate an image 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise.
• Click the hide/show thumbnail icon to hide and show the small image used to navigate the larger image. The navigation thumbnail setting you select will be retained throughout your session when viewing single items.
• Click the clip icon to open the clip viewer window that allows you to select a segment of the image to save, e-mail, or print. The selected segment may resize when displayed in the new window.

Navigating Compound Objects

Documents consisting of more than one page or side appear as "compound objects." The software displays compound objects with the first page of the image on the main screen, the image toolbar above it, a table of contents or "menu" to the left, and a drop-down menu to toggle between the image and its description. Each letter on the image below corresponds to a definition of the element and its function.

A. Menu Off
Click Menu Off to hide the menu on the left side of the screen. When the menu is hidden, click the previous/next page links to view other pages. To show the menu, click Menu On.

B. Add Item/ Side to Favorites
Add the complete item to My Favorites, or add the current side to My Favorites.

C. Reference URL
Click Reference URL to access a window that contains the URL of the compound object being viewed. Copy the URL within the text box and paste it into citations and other references.

D. Previous/Next
Click Previous or Next to go to the next item in your results page. Your zoom and navigation thumbnail settings will not be retained when you go to the previous or next item.

E. View Drop-Down List
Use the drop-down list to choose between different views of the compound object:

• Item Description -- View descriptive information about the complete document or item.
• Side Description -- View minimal descriptive information about a single page of a compound object.
• Side by Side -- View both sides of a two-sided object at once.

F. Previous Side and Next Side
Go to the previous or next page within the item. Any thumbnail, zoom, or article view settings you have selected will be retained when you move between pages. These settings will not be retained if you go to the previous/next result or turn the menu on/off.

G. Object Navigation
Use the links in this section to navigate to specific pages or sides within the item.

Navigating Metadata

Metadata provides descriptive information about each digital item in a standardized way to aid in locating items and in learning more about them once located.

To view the metadata of a compound object, select "item description" from the drop-down list marked by (E) in the above example. Terms in red text are searchable. Furthermore, they are hyperlinked, and clicking on a word (in Title or Description) or phrase (in Subject, Place Original, Language Name, Script, or Object Type) will lead to the set of items containing that word or phrase.

See also: detailed information about the metadata standards used for all University of Louisville Digital Collections