Photograph Project
"The Tundra Times, more than anything else, I
think, has awakened the fervor to do something and help to bring out the
potential in leadership among our people."
Howard Rock, Editor
View the Photographs
To quickly access the photographs enter a search term into the
quicksearch
field on the menu to the left:
Or click on the Photographs button:
and choose a portfolio of pre-selected photographs from the list on the right
side of the screen.
EmbARK Web Kiosk Help
EmbARK Web Kiosk is designed to let you find information in several different ways. Each feature of the Web Kiosk can be accessed through the menu bar on the left side of the screen.
Home - Photographs - Search - Multiple Record Display - Single Record Display
Home
The Home button on the left menu bar will return you to the introductory page of the Tundra Times Photograph Project Website.
Photographs
The "Photographs" section provides access to records that have been organized into groups called Portfolios. A portfolio may be directly opened by selecting it from the alphabetical listing in the See Also column on the right side of the screen.
Alternatively, portfolios may be accessed by clicking through the categories presented on the screen. The categories allow information to be organized hierarchically and provide a means for guiding the user more directly to desired information. Selecting a category will lead to one of three types of information.
- A sub-category
- A group of records organized into a portfolio
- A block of descriptive text about a topic
While navigating within the hierarchical categories, the user may return to the previous category by clicking the "Up a Level" text.
Search
Searching allows you to access records in the database on your own instead of through predetermined portfolios. Web Kiosk offers five different search options.
1. Quick Search
The Quick Search box is displayed at the top of the left menu bar. Simply enter one or more words in the box, then click the Go button. If a match is found, the results will be displayed as a list of thumbnails with short captions; if no results are found, a message is displayed to "Try again."
TIP: Enter the beginning of a search word to retrieve more results, e.g. "Lib" instead of "Library".
2. Advanced Search
This search enables you to search on up to six fields of information directly related to the records.
The first popup on the page contains a list of searchable fields. After selecting the field you want to search in the first drop-down, a set of search values will be displayed in a second drop-down list. Select the search value from this popup.
If a field contains too many values to include in the picklist, the list will be broken down by starting letters/numbers such as "A", "B", etc. When you select a letter, a new window will open with the values that begin with that letter. Select a value to close that window and complete your search criteria.
Click Add Line to add a second line to the search. Boolean operators "and", "or", and "except" may be used. All objects that meet your search criteria will be included in your search results. See also: Advanced Search Options.
3. Date Search
The Date Search lets you search for objects by their creation date. Type a date in the box provided. Values such as "early 19th century" or "1850-1869" will be interpreted as their respective date ranges. From the popup list, select how you want your date criteria to be interpreted:
- is circa: the object creation date falls within 5 years to either side of the date you enter (dependent on system settings)
- is equal to: the object creation date falls exactly within the date range you enter
- is earlier than: the object creation date falls within a range before the date you enter
- is later than: the object creation date falls within a range after the date you enter
Click Add Line to add a second line to the search. All objects that meet either one of your search criteria will be included in your search results.
4. Keyword Search
Keyword searching is a powerful way to find object records. Keyword searching allows you to search using the same controlled vocabulary of terms that were used to catalog the records in the database.
Depending on how many keywords are in the system, you may be able to click the FIND KEYWORDS button to display the entire list of available keywords. Alternatively, a smaller set of keywords can be
