Test Pages

On these pages we publish demos and test displays of the Munch material. It is also possible to download stylesheets and the scripts that are used in our test displays from here.

• Timelines and maps
• Display of texts: a hybrid of facsimile and transcription
• Stylesheets and scripts for downloading

You can read more about the technical standards and programs we use here:Technical Info.

Timelines and maps

We are currently experimenting with incorporating facsimiles and texts into a timeline linked to a map. It currently contains some of Edvard Munch’s postcards.

The display is made by combining the program Timeline (created in the project Simile) and Google Maps. The software can be downloaded free of charge here: http://code.google.com/p/timemap/.

Facts and information can be stored with the help of several different specifications such as JavaScript, SML or JSON. In our example we have stored the information directly in JavaScript, but we will undoubtedly use JSON or XML as the volume of information increases.

Displays of the texts: a hybrid of facsimile and transcription

We have chosen to create a standard display of the texts that incorporates the facsimile together with the transcription of the text. We call this a hybrid display. The hybrid display shows one page of the text item at a time, and you can leaf through the entire text, from page to page, with the help of the cursor..

The development of our text displays is generated with the help of Image Markup Tool, which we use to encode transcriptions, commentaries and footnotes in facsimiles of the text items. In IMT one facsimile is encoded at a time and each transcribed page of a text is thus filed by itself together with a facsimile of the page. In order to connect the pages of a text item to each other we use xInclude, a W3C standard for XML. A completed encoded text item thus consists of one XML file for each facsimile, and one XML file that connects all of the other files with the help of xInclude.

Stylesheets and scripts for downloading

In order to operate a display you will need — in addition to the XML files — a stylesheet and instructions:

• An XSLT stylesheet: eMunch.xsl
• Instructions for use (coming soon)
• Test files (coming soon)

In order to show the generated HTML file you will also need the following two files:

• One CSS stylesheet: eMunch.css
• One JavaScript: eMunch_bilde.js