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1.  INTRODUCTION

1.1 INTRODUCTION

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period provides sophisticated searching across some 60 volumes of romantic poetry, as well as table of contents access.  It also provides essays, criticism and related material.

For novices who wish to get quick access to key documents, we recommend using the Tables of Contents and the Search Works tools.

1.2 UNDERSTANDING THE STRUCTURE OF THE DATABASE

There are three basic ways to use the database.

  • Tables of Contents -- Use these to see what's contained in the database. This is the best way to check whether an author, a work, or a poem is included. To use this tool, simply click on the appropriate table of contents button on the navigation bar.
  • Find Tools -- The "FIND" tools let you search for specific authors or specific works in the database. Find Authors returns a list of all authors that match your specific criteria. Find Works returns a list of all works in the database. The difference between the "FIND" tools and the "SEARCH" tools (explained next) is in the results they give. The "FIND" tools do not return documents, but rather lists of works, poems and authors. Note the difference between a work (a volume of poetry) and the poems themselves (items within a work).
  • Search Tools -- The "SEARCH" tools let you analyze words and documents that meet your search criteria. The "SEARCH" tools return documents or bibliographic citations or both.

 

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1.3 THE NAVIGATION BAR

The Navigation Bar lets you move around the tools. Click on the mauve area to move to a new tool.  The brown color indicates which tool is active.

The Navigation Bar is divided into the following Tables of Contents, all of which provide quick access to specific documents within the database.

The Navigation Bar also includes a tool to Search the Works for particular keywords.  This will search all primary works for keyword occurrences.

The light brown color indicates which table of contents you are using. The brown moves as you move from tool to tool. You may click on the mauve parts of the Navigation bar to move to the appropriate tool. (The graphic above is just an illustration; it does not have live links.)

1.4 NOTES ON MARK-UP CONVENTIONS

Materials in the database have been transcribed using original spellings and grammar. In some documents spelling is inconsistent, even within a sentence.

For more information on mark-up conventions, contact the Editor.

1.5 ABOUT THE SEARCH SOFTWARE

PhiloLogic, a suite of software developed by the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago in collaboration with The University of Chicago Library's Electronic Text Services, provides sophisticated searching of a wide variety of large encoded databases on the World Wide Web. It is an easy to use, yet powerful, full-text search, retrieval, and reporting system for large multimedia databases (texts, images, sound) with the ability to handle complex text structures with extensive indexed metadata.

PhiloLogic in its simplest form serves as a document retrieval or look up mechanism whereby users can search a relational database to retrieve given documents and, in some implementations, portions of texts such as acts, scenes, articles, or head-words. This same document retrieval mechanism serves as the basis for defining a corpus in a full-text search. One can, for example, either retrieve all documents in a database written by women from 1935 through 1945 or one can search for words or phrases within database which fit those criteria. The typical PhiloLogic search is broken down into five distinct stages: 1) defining a corpus (i.e. limiting a search), 2) word expansion, 3) word index searching, 4) text extraction, and 5) link resolution and formatting (e.g., SGML to HTML conversion). In other words, after defining a corpus (or one may search an entire database), one can execute a single term, phrase or proximity search. By looking up indices of the word(s) in a relational database, PhiloLogic extracts blocks of text containing the search term(s) with links to larger blocks of text. These extracts are formatted to display on a Web browser and sometimes include links to images, sound recordings, other texts, or even other databases.

In addition to simple word and phrase searches, users can perform more sophisticated searches by using extended UNIX-style regular expressions for complex wildcard searching and, in some implementations, morphological and orthographic expansion. All of these mechanisms to expand words can be combined using Boolean operators such as OR (the vertical bar "|") and AND (a space) within a variety of searching contexts.

Its functions were originally designed for scholarly research in databases of literary, religious, philosophical, and historical collections of texts as well as important historical encyclopedias and dictionaries. PhiloLogic handles notes so as not to interfere with phrase searching. Users can easily search words with diacritics (either by specifying accents or ignoring them by typing in uppercase) and non-Romanized scripts. At present there are some fifty databases on the Web under PhiloLogic containing languages such as ancient Greek, Latin, Hindi, and Urdu as well as nearly all Western European languages. PhiloLogic can also be set up to recognize or ignore manuscript notations such as different brackets, which can indicate spurious text or editorial emendations. Because the software recognizes typical text structures as real data objects, it understands units, such as words, sentences, paragraphs, sections, and pages, permitting very flexible searching and retrieval of these textual objects. Other full-text engines on the market search for strings of characters. Rather than searching for two words within the same sentence or paragraph (intellectual units), other engines must search for two words within a certain number of characters regardless of sentence or paragraph. With PhiloLogic scholars always know where they are in a given text since pagination can be displayed along side other objects. Such a high degree of indexing can lead to decreases in speed, PhiloLogic indexing has been maximized such that it is still incredibly fast on the Web.

For more information on PhiloLogic, contact Catherine Mardikes, ETS Coordinator, The University of Chicago Library.

 

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2. FINDING TOOLS

2.1 FIND WORKS

The Find Works tool lets you find all the original works in the database that match your specific criteria. For example, you can find out all the works with a particular keyword in the title, published by a particular printer or see whether a particular edition is included in the database.

Practical Example:
Find all works written by Joanna Baillie.

Note: For a detailed discussion of the fields in Find Works see the section on Fields and their Descriptions below.

2.2 FIND AUTHORS

The Find Authors tool lets you find authors in the database that match your specific criteria. For example, you can find all the authors in the database that were born between 1820 and 1830.

Practical Example:
Find all Canadians in the database.

Note: For a detailed discussion of the fields in Find Authors see the section on Fields and their Descriptions below.

2.3 FIND POEMS

The Find Poems tool lets you search for specific poems within volumes by keyword in their title or by other criteria, such as the author's religion, date of birth, or by keywords in the title.

Practical Example:
Find all poems with 'heart' in the title.

  • Click on the navigation bar to get to Find Poems.
  • Enter heart  in the Title  field.
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all authors that meet the criteria.

Note: For a detailed discussion of the fields in Find Poems see the section on Fields and their Descriptions below.

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3. SEARCHING

3.1 SEARCH OVERVIEW

There are two basic kinds of searching in the database.

The conventions used in each kind of searching are slightly different as shown below.

 

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3.2 FULL-TEXT SEARCHING

3.2.1 Full-Text Searching

Full-Text Searching is when you search for specific words or phrases that occur in the texts themselves.

PhiloLogic supports wildcard characters and Boolean (logical) operators, which are modeled on UNIX regular expressions to perform "pattern matching" in full-text searching. Pattern matching allows identification of a large number of words corresponding to a defined pattern. Wildcard characters can be useful, for example, in identifying cognates made obscure by affixes and vowel weakening, inconsistencies due to irregular orthography, and variations on account of word inflection as well as for discovering potential emendations for uncertain readings. The most commonly used regular expression operators (wildcard and Boolean) are listed below.

3.2.2 Wildcard Characters in Full-Text Searching

 

. (period):
matches any single character (e.g., gentlem.n will retrieve gentleman and gentlemen).
* (asterisk):
matches any string of characters, anchoring the match at the beginning of a word (e.g., cigar* will match cigar, cigars, cigarette, etc.).
* (asterisk):
matches any string of characters, anchoring the match at the end of a word (e.g., *habit will retrieve habit, cohabit, and inhabit), or in the middle (e.g., c.*eers matches compeers, cheers, and careers).
.? (period question mark):
matches the characters entered or the characters entered plus one more character in place of the question mark (e.g., hono.?r matches both honor and honour and cat.? matches cat and cats, but not cathedral, Catherine, etc.).
[a-z] (brackets):
matches a single character found in the specified range (e.g., [c-f]at will match cat, dat, eat, and fat) or any letters within the brackets (e.g., civili[zs]e will match both civilize and civilise).
# (hash mark):
matches capitalized words only (e.g., #bacon will retrieve Bacon, but not bacon). Otherwise word searches are case insensitive. Please note that this operator does not work properly in conjunction with the vertical bar (e.g., searching #hamlet|#bacon will not retrieve accurate results).
E (capital letter):
matches all accented and non-accented forms (e.g., to search naïveté regardless of accents type naIvetE).

Note: If you are using wildcard characters and would like to see a full list of the words matching your search-term, then run your search as a Frequency by Author search. The results page of a Frequency by Author search lists all the terms found in a database that match your search-term.

3.2.3 Wildcards and Boolean Operators in Full-Text Searching

3.2.4 Punctuation and Full-Text Searching

3.2.5 Selecting a Search Option

PhiloLogic at this time offers two kinds of searches: "Single Term and Phrase Search," which is set up as the default, and "Proximity Searching in the Same Sentence or Paragraph." One may select and deselect a search option by clicking on the "radio" buttons.

For a fuller discussion see the PhiloLogic User Manual

 

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3.3 FIELD SEARCHING

3.3.1 Searching in Specific Fields

When entering search terms in bibliographic fields, as opposed to the full text search box, use the following Boolean operators: uppercase AND, OR, and NOT. One can use a NOT operator by itself (e.g., in the Type field enter: NOT editorial). It must be the first term in the box with no spaces preceding and it cannot be used with other Boolean operators

3.3.2 Advanced Field Searching with Regular Expression Operators

As in full text searching, one can use regular expression operators for more specialized searching. The caret sign (^) at the beginning of a word anchors the match at the beginning of the entry (e.g., ^child will find the personal event "Childbirth," but not "Adoption of Child). One can also use the vertical line (|) as a Boolean operator OR. With this operator one can exclude two terms from one's search (e.g., NOT adams|burr).

3.3.3 Punctuation and Spacing in Fielded Searching

When entering terms, punctuation and spacing must match exactly that in the fields. The following marks of punctuation produce a "Nothing found" message: ampersand (&), parentheses, question mark, and double quotes (""). If necessary for searching, replace the mark of punctuation with a period, which stand for any single character.

 

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4. FIELDS AND THEIR DESCRIPTIONS

4.1 LIST OF ALL FIELDS THAT CAN BE SEARCHED

Here is a summary table of all fields in the database, showing which tool they can be found on. Detailed descriptions can be found below.
 
Find     Search
Author Work Poem Works
Author: x x x x
Edition Year:   x   x
Editor: x     x
Ethnicity: x   x x
Nationality: x   x x
Occupation: x      
Place of Birth: x   x x
Place of Death: x   x x
Printer:   x   x
Publisher:   x   x
Religion: x   x x
Source Number:   x   x
Title:   x   x
Work Title:     x  
Year of Birth: x   x x
Year of Death: x   x x

 

 

 

4.2 FIELD DESCRIPTIONS WITH SAMPLE SEARCHES

4.2.1 Author

Description: This field includes all variants of the author's name. It is used in all Search and Find screens.

How to use this field: Use this field to restrict your search to authors .

Practical Example:
You are looking for all works by Darling in the database:

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Authors.
  • Key in "Darling' in the Author field..
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
4.2.2 Edition Year

Description: This field describes the year of the work's publication. It is used only in the Find Works section of the database. It is an Optional field.

How to use this field: Use this field to find works that were published in a particular year or period.

Practical Example:
Find me works published between the 1780 and 1800.

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Sources.
  • Scroll down to the Year of Publication box. Key in 1780-1800.
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all occurrences.
4.2.3 Editor

Description: This field describes the editor of the a particular work. It is used in the Find Works and the Search Works sections of the database. It is an Optional field.

How to use this field: Use this field to find works edited by a particular individual.

Practical Example:
Find me works edited by Henderson..

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Sources.
  • Scroll down to the Editor box. Key in Henderson.
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all occurrences.
4.2.4 Ethnicity

Description: This field is used to describe the heritage of the author - such as English, Irish or Scottish. 

How to use this field: Use this field to find all source works by authors of a particular ethnicity.

Practical Example:
Find me poems written by authors of Irish ancestry.

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Poems.
  • Scroll down to the Ethnicity box. Key in Irish.
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all occurrences.

4.2.5 Nationality

Description: This field is used to describe the nationality of the author - such as Canadian, English, or Irish.

How to use this field: Use this field to find all works by authors who are Canadian.

Practical Example:
Find me sources that were privately printed.

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Works
  • Scroll down to the Nationality box. Key in Canadian.
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all occurrences.


4.2.6 Occupation

Description: This field describes the author's occupation, if any. It is an Optional field.

How to use this field: Use this field to find works written by a woman in a particular occupation - for example, all Teachers.

Note: All occupations throughout a woman's life are entered. This is not tied to when a woman is writing. An individual may have several occupations through their life.

Practical Example:
Find me works written by teachers.

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Works.
  • Scroll down to the Occupation box. Key in Teacher.
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all occurrences.

To see what Occupation terms are available click the Terms button. Copy terms that you want and paste them into the box. Be careful to delete any semicolons and replace them with the appropriate Boolean operator.

4.2.7 Place of Birth

Description: This field describes the location of the author's birth, if known. It is an Optional field.

How to use this field: Use this field to find women born in a particular place or region.

Note: Use "Not indicated" to find occurrences where we have been unable to determine the place of birth.

Practical Example:
Find me authors born in Perth.

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Authors.
  • Scroll down to the Place of Birth box. Key in Perth
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all occurrences.

To see what Place of Birth terms are available click the Terms button. Copy terms that you want and paste them into the box. Be careful to delete any semicolons and replace them with the appropriate Boolean operator.

4.2.8 Place of Death

Description: This field describes the location of the author's death, if known. It is used only in the Find Author section of the database. It is an Optional field.

How to use this field: Use this field to find women who died in a particular place or region.

Note: Use "Not indicated" to find occurrences where we have been unable to determine the place of death.

Practical Example:
Find me authors who died in England

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Authors.
  • Scroll down to the Place of Death box. Key in England.
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all occurrences.

To see what Place of Death terms are available click the Terms button. Copy terms that you want and paste them into the box. Be careful to delete any semicolons and replace them with the appropriate Boolean operator.

4.2.9 Printer

Description: This field indicates the name of the publisher of the source work. It is used only in the Find Works section of the database.

How to use this field: Use this field to find all source works by particular printer.

Practical Example:
Find me sources that were printed by James Ballantyne & Co.

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Works.
  • Scroll down to the Printer box. Key in Ballantyne.
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all occurrences.

Note: Printer names are not standardized.  To see what Printer terms are available click the Terms button. Copy terms that you want and paste them into the box. Be careful to delete any semicolons and replace them with the appropriate Boolean operator.

 

4.2.10 Publisher

Description: This field indicates the name of the publisher of the source work. It is used only in the Find Works section of the database.

How to use this field: Use this field to find all source works by a particular publisher.

Practical Example:
Find me sources that were privately printed.

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Workss.
  • Scroll down to the Publisher box. Key in privately.
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all occurrences.

Note: Publisher names are standardized and may vary from the form of the name that appears on the source's title page.

 

4.2.11 Religion

Description: This field contains the religion of the author where known..

How to use this field: Use this field to find poems written by authors of a particular religion, or to identify authors of a particular religion.

Practical Example:
Find me all works written by Presbyterians .

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Poems.
  • Scroll down to the Religion box. Key in Presbyterian.
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all occurrences.

4.2.12 Source Number

Description: This field contains the unique identifier for each source in the database.

How to use this field: This field is intended for advanced users to locate specific works.


4.2.13 Title

Description: Use this field to find sources by title. It is used in the Find Poems and Find Works section of the database. It is a mandatory field.

How to use this field: Use this field to find sources with specific words in the title.

Practical Example:
Find me all poems with dream, dreaming, dreamy etc.. in the title.

  • Click on the navigation bar to Find Poems
  • Scroll down to the Title box. Key in dream*.
  • Click on the SEARCH button.
  • The system responds with a list of all occurrences.
4.2.14 Work Title

Description: This field contains the title of the volume from which the poems have been taken.

Practical Example:
See 4.2.13. above.


4.2.15 Year of Birth

Description: This field describes the year of the author's birth, if known. It is used only in the Find Author section of the database. It is an Optional field.

How to use this field: Use this field to find authors who died in a particular year or period.

Note: To search for occurrences where we could not ascertain the year of birth, key in 9999.

Practical Example:
Find me authors who were born from 1750-1800.

4.2.16 Year of Death

Description: This field describes the year of the author's death, if known. It is an Optional field.

How to use this field: Use this field to find women who died in a particular year or period.

Note: To search for occurrences where we could not ascertain the year of death, key in 9999.

Practical Example:
Find me authors who died from 1750-1800.

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5. RESULTS

5.1 OCCURRENCES WITH CONTEXT/CONTEXT DISPLAY

Occurrences with Context Display is the default results format option. This report indicates the number of texts searched, the search term(s) entered in a defined corpus, and the total number of occurrences found. (The number of occurrences displays at the top of the report if PhiloLogic has detected the number before generating the first 25 occurrences. If not, the total number of occurrences displays at the bottom of the report.) Following this general information is a list of occurrences.

Each occurrence is represented by a short citation consisting of abbreviations for the author's name and the title of the work with a reference to where the term(s) in question occur within the document. (Full entries for the short citations are listed in the Results Bibliography at the bottom of the report.) Along side the citation is listed several levels of context, shown in blue in the example below (links to the table of contents and occurrences have been disabled).

 

1. Winslow, Harriet Wadsworth Lathrop. "Diary of Harriet Wadsworth Winslow, August, 1814"
[Page 29 | Paragraph | Section | Document]

cordial welcome." 21. --When I reflect on the multitudes of my fellow-creatures who are perishing for lack of vision, and that I am living at ease, without aiding in the promulgation of the Gospel, I am almost ready to wish myself a man, that I might spend my life with the poor heathen. But I check the thought, and would not alter one plan of Infinite wisdom. I could, however, cheerfully endure pain and hardship for them, and for my dear Redeemer. Has he not given his life for multitudes now perishing, as well as for my soul? And Oh, how basely ungrateful and selfish in

 

  • The citation indicates the original source of the material.
  • Page 29 - indicates the page where the occurrence was found. Pages, whenever possible, refer to the page of the print edition. Click on it to go to the page.
  • Paragraph - indicates the paragraph where the occurrence was found. Click on it to go to the Paragraph.
  • Section - indicates the Section where the occurrence was found. In the case of a letter this is usually the same as the Document, but in the case of a diary this is a day of the month. Click on it to go to it.
  • Document - indicates the entire document (in the case of a diary this is a month of entries). Click to view the whole document.

Below the short citation there is a passage of text consisting of some forty words on either side of the key word, which is highlighted. PhiloLogic, however, displays as much text as needed to capture all words in a multi-term search and all search words are highlighted. The reference listed with the short citation is linked to the text. If clicking on the page number, one retrieves the full page with key words still highlighted. The same is true for paragraph and the three other levels of hierarchy. Links to the previous and next page, paragraph or levels respectively, if they exist, are provided.

Note: Remember that, when searching for two or more terms within the same paragraph, the context display expands the amount of text displayed to include all of the search terms in the paragraph. At times the text displayed in a proximity search to accommodate all the search terms may be several screens in length since some paragraph divisions in documents in some databases are very far apart.

In cases where a search finds more than 25 occurrences, PhiloLogic provides the first 25 occurrences with links at the bottom of the report to the remaining occurrences of the search in sets of one hundred. One may also retrieve a full list of occurrences which can be useful for down-loading or printing, but which may take some time to retrieve. Note: when results number over hundreds or thousands of occurrences, the report may not be complete when first starting to view results. In this case, one sees the message "The search is still in progress. 908 occurrences have been generated so far. (please follow the link(s) below to check on the progress) ". The server continues to append results until it has completed the entire report and, by clicking on any of the sets of one hundred, one can retrieve the full report.

 

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5.2 LINE-BY-LINE DISPLAY

The Line-by-Line display indicates the number of texts searched, the search term(s) entered in a defined corpus, and the total number of occurrences found. (The number of occurrences displays at the top of the report if PhiloLogic has detected the number before generating the first 25 occurrences. If not, the total number of occurrences displays at the bottom of the report.) Following this general information is a list of occurrences. Each occurrence is represented by a short citation consisting of abbreviations for the author's name and the title of the work with a reference to where the term(s) in question occur within the document. References (E.g. Bayley:D1266-14) are a concatenation of an Author abbreviation, the document identifier within the database, and the Page Number. The report is followed by the Results Bibliography, wherein you can find a full citation for the References in the report. Here is an example of the Line-by-Line display (links to the table of contents and occurrences have been disabled).

 

Bibliographic criteria: doctype=diary
Searching 1333 documents for scrup.*. Your search found 6 occurrences

Context Display Sorted by Author Sorted by Source

1. Morris:D43-3 (p.27)re. Jan. 31st, 1777 The scruples of my own mind being satisfied
2. Kemble:D757-4 (p.251)> time, Mrs.----, less scrupulous and without asking my leave
3. Dawson:D373-9 (p.263)rprise, so we did not scruple to leave Lilly.... The Baton Ro
4. Dawson:D373-6 (p.127) The soldiers did not scruple to laugh at us. Those who were
5. Dawson:D373-8 (p.219)of Charlie, so had no scruples about offering their services;
6. Dawson:D373-8 (p.230)ked because he was so scrupulously neat while the others were

A Line-by-Line Display differs from a Context Report in that it limits the text displayed to only a single line of text. The search term, which is highlighted, is centered in the line so that a user can quickly scan the results. At the bottom of the report one finds the Results Bibliography, which lists the full references for the short citations above. Unlike the Context report, a Line-by-Line Display only offers one level of linked context.

The user may toggle from the Line-by-Line Display to a Context Report or to the results sorted by Author and Sorted by Source.

In cases where a search finds more than 25 occurrences, PhiloLogic provides the first 25 occurrences with links at the bottom of the report to the remaining occurrences of the search in sets of one hundred. One may also retrieve a full list of occurrences which can be useful for down-loading or printing, but which may take some time to retrieve. Note: when results number over hundreds or thousands of occurrences, the report may not be complete when first starting to view results. In this case, one sees the message "The search is still in progress. [908] occurrences have been generated so far. (please follow the link(s) below to check on the progress) ". The server continues to append results until it has completed the entire report and, by clicking on any of the sets of one hundred, one can retrieve the full report.

Note: When executing a "Proximity Search," especially with paragraph set as the searching parameter, it is best to avoid the Line-by-line format since all search terms are not likely to be in the single line of text displayed. The term that is located first in the paragraph is the one that is centered in the single line of text. Using the Context results format ensures that all terms are included in the display even if the paragraph should happen to run for several pages. One can switch from a Line-by-line format to a Context Report format at any time while viewing results and switch back. PhiloLogic takes the user to the same set of results being viewed at the time of the switch.

 

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5.3 SORTING RESULTS BY AUTHOR

Results can be sorted using a Sorted by Author report. This report indicates how many times a work occurred in documents by a particular author. To do this choose Frequency by Author at the bottom of the Letter, Diary or Advanced Search screens, or select Sort by Author from the Context or Line by Line display.

A Sorted by Author report indicates the bibliographic criteria entered, the number of documents searched, the search term(s) entered, the number of unique forms derived from the search term(s) within the database, a list of those unique forms, and the total number of occurrences found in the defined corpus. Following this information, the report indicates the number of occurrences by author in descending order of frequency with individual titles listed with a link to the digital table of contents for each title and a link to the occurrences found within that title.

This report also shows what terms within a database one's search criteria are searching (for example, one can discover that entering the search term school.* in the database searches for all these unique terms above). See below for an example (links to the table of contents and occurrences have been disabled).

 

Bibliographic criteria: doctype=diary
Searching 1333 documents for convalesc.*.
Number of Unique Forms: 5

Search Terms: convalescence | convalescent | convalescents | convalescing | Convalescent

Your search found 10 occurrences.

Frequency by Author in descending numeric order:

1. Gibbons, Abigail Hopper, 1801-1893: 8
2: Diary of Abigail Hopper Gibbons, August, 1862[Occurrences]
2: Diary of Abigail Hopper Gibbons, November, 1861[Occurrences]
1: Diary of Abigail Hopper Gibbons, April, 1863[Occurrences]
1: Diary of Abigail Hopper Gibbons, March, 1863[Occurrences]
1: Diary of Abigail Hopper Gibbons, September, 1862[Occurrences]
1: Diary of Abigail Hopper Gibbons, July, 1862[Occurrences]
2. Winslow, Harriet Wadsworth Lathrop, 1796-1833: 1
1: Diary of Harriet Wadsworth Winslow, May, 1820[Occurrences]
3. Cary, Anne M.: 1
1: Diary of Anne M. Cary, October, 1827[Occurrences]

Any definable corpus or search can be used in generating this report. Unlike Context Display and Line-by-line reports, this report does not display text, only frequency statistics with links to occurrences displayed in Context display format. Note: the sets of occurrences linked to from the frequency report are numbered in chronological order, not by frequency. In other words, clicking on the [Occurrences] link for a title at the top of the list could, for example, bring up occurrences numbered 21-28 instead of 1-8 because that author's title while ranked first in frequency is not first chronologically.

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5.4 SORTING RESULTS BY SOURCE

Results can be sorted using a Sorted by Source report. To do this choose Frequency by Source at the bottom of the Letter, Diary or Advanced Search screens, or click on Sort by Source when in a context display.

This report indicates the bibliographic criteria entered, the number of documents searched, the search term(s) entered, the number of unique forms derived from the search term(s) within the database, a list of those unique forms, and the total number of occurrences found in the defined corpus. Following this information, the report indicates the number of occurrences by title in descending order of frequency with a link to the digital table of contents for each title and a link to the occurrences found within that title.

This report also shows what terms within a database one's search criteria are searching (for example, one can discover that entering the search term school.* in the database searches for all these unique terms above). See below for an example (links to the table of contents and occurrences have been disabled).

 

Bibliographic criteria: doctype=letter
Searching 1181 documents for measles.
Number of Unique Forms: 2

Search Terms: measles | Measles

Your search found 3 occurrences.

Frequency by Source in descending numeric order:

1. Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons: Told Chiefly through Her Correspondence, vol. 2: 2
2: Gibbons, Abigail Hopper, 1801-1893 Letter from Abigail Hopper Gibbons to Susan Hopper, June 6, 1863[Occurrences]
2. Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons: Told Chiefly through Her Correspondence, vol. 1: 1
1: Gibbons, Abigail Hopper, 1801-1893 Letter from Abigail Hopper Gibbons to Anne Warren Weston and Deborah Weston, March 24, 1841[Occurrences]

The Frequency by Source Report is useful if one is curious how frequently an author uses term(s) in one work as compared to his/her other works or in his/her works as compared to others' works.

Any definable corpus or search can be used in generating this report. Unlike Context Display and Line-by-line reports, this report does not display text, only frequency statistics with links to occurrences displayed in Context Display format. Note: the sets of occurrences linked to from the frequency report are numbered in chronological order, not by frequency. In other words, clicking on the [Occurrences] link for a title at the top of the list could, for example, bring up occurrences numbered 21-28 instead of 1-8 because that title while ranked first in frequency is not first chronologically.

 

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5.5 SORTING RESULTS BY YEAR (FREQUENCY BY YEAR)

Results can be sorted by using a Frequency by Year report. This report indicates how many times a work occurred in documents in a particular year. To do this choose Frequency by Year at the bottom of the Letter, Diary or Advanced Search screens.

A Frequency by Year report indicates the bibliographic criteria entered, the number of documents searched, the search term(s) entered, the number of unique forms derived from the search term(s) within the database, a list of those unique forms, and the total number of occurrences found in the defined corpus. Following this information, the report indicates the number of occurrences by title in descending order of frequency with a link to the digital table of contents for each title and a link to the occurrences found within that title.

This report also shows what terms within a database one's search criteria are searching (for example, one can discover that entering the search term craft* in the database searches for these unique terms). See below for an example (links to the table of contents and occurrences have been disabled).

 

Bibliographic criteria: doctype=letter
Searching 1181 documents for craft.*.
Number of Unique Forms: 3

Search Terms: craft | crafty | Crafts

Your search found 10 occurrences.

Frequency by Year in descending numeric order:

1. 1839: 4
2: Kemble, Frances Anne, 1809-1893 Letter from Frances Anne Kemble to Elizabeth Dwight Sedgwick, 1839[Occurrences]
1: Kemble, Frances Anne, 1809-1893 Letter from Frances Anne Kemble to Elizabeth Dwight Sedgwick, 1839[Occurrences]
1: Kemble, Frances Anne, 1809-1893 Letter from Frances Anne Kemble to Elizabeth Dwight Sedgwick, February, 1839[Occurrences]
2. 1840: 3
1: Steele, Eliza R. Stansbury Letter from Eliza R. Steele, July 12, 1840[Occurrences]
1: Steele, Eliza R. Stansbury Letter from Eliza R. Steele, July 11, 1840[Occurrences]
1: Steele, Eliza R. Stansbury Letter from Eliza R. Steele, June 14, 1840[Occurrences]
3. 1830: 2
1: Willard, Emma Hart, 1787-1870 Letter from Emma Hart Willard, December 8, 1830[Occurrences]
1: Willard, Emma Hart, 1787-1870 Letter from Emma Hart Willard to Almira H. Phelps, December 2, 1830[Occurrences]
4. 1831: 1
1: Willard, Emma Hart, 1787-1870 Letter from Emma Hart Willard, February 14, 1831[Occurrences]

The Sorted by Year Report is useful if one is curious how frequently a word appears over time. Any definable corpus or search can be used in generating this report. Unlike Context Display and Line-by-line reports, this report does not display text, only frequency statistics with links to occurrences displayed in Context Display format.

 

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5.6 NAVIGATING DOCUMENTS FROM WORD SEARCHES

In Context Display one finds several options for viewing more context around one's matched term(s). In addition to "page" and paragraph, you'll section and page. These divisions reflect the logical organization of the document from smaller parts (paragraph) to larger parts document. What each level represents depends upon the text itself.

Each letter is considered to be a document, no matter how long it is. A diary is divided into paragraphs, sections (typically a day), and documents (a month of entries). For diaries with short entries you will find it easiest to view the full document. For diaries with longer entries you will find it easiest to view section by section.

Any part of any level may be selected by simply clicking on it. Once a user goes to a second level of context, he/she will find the search term(s) still highlighted. One may also find the next and previous sections for each level if one should wish to "flip through" the document by sections (provided that a next or previous section exists for a given level).

Notes: In PhiloLogic notes never interfere when searching the text to which they refer. Note references are linked to notes and occurrences in text from notes are linked to page references. Note and page references can be found on any level of context (e.g., Page, Paragraph, Section, Document), but not from a first-level results screen.

Images: Images are displayed as both inline images and linked to images once the user pulls up any level of context (e.g., Page, Paragraph, Section, Document), but not from a first-level results screen.

 

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