Documentation for the Commentary Visualization tool

The Commentary Visualization is an experimental tool that tries to mix a graphical network display with text-based searching.

The tool is currently only showing Titles with commentary relations.

The tool can be accessed at the URL:

​https://ismi-dev.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/netvis-ismi/commentaries.html

Page layout

The tool works best on a big screen.

The page has three parts:

1. the list of titles
2. the detail display of a selected title
3. the graph of all commentary relations

You can collapse all of the three parts by clicking on the "click to hide" text in the title bar.

Starting with an author

You can type the name of an author or an ISMI_ID in the search box in the top left of the page above the title box.

The search for the name uses the transliterated arabic name field in the database and ignores diacritical marks.

If more than one author's name match the search term you will get the titles by all those authors. In this case you will find a list of names in the "Titles by" field in the head of the title list part.

For example if we type "tusi" in the search box we get the works of seven authors: