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
   • shows all titles by the author(s) you searched for
   • titles that are part pf a commentary relation have a red outline
2. the detail view of a selected title
   • shows the title that was selected by clicking in the list of titles or on a node in the commentary graph
3. the graph of all commentary relations
   • shows all titles in the ISMI database that have a commentary relation
   • hovering over a round node with the mouse shows the title
   • clicking on a node selects the text and shows it in the detail view
   • titles from the list of titles (1) have a red outline
   • the selected title from the detail view (2) is filled in red

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:

In the list of authors you will also find the author's ISMI_ID in square brackets next to each name.

If you want to see the works of only one author note his ID and enter the ID into the search field.