Hermeneuti.ca – The Rhetoric of Text Analysis

Reader acts as a method of reading all documents within a specified corpus. It does not provide text analysis but rather a method of viewing the contents of a corpus.

Getting Started Interface Elements Exporting

Getting Started

When you first arrive to the Reader tool you will see one of two possible screens:

Reader without a pre-loaded corpus. See loading texts into Voyeur for help on how to proceed.

Reader with a pre-loaded corpus. You were probably given a URLA URL (Uniform Resource Locator), sometimes called a web address, is used to locate and identify web content. For more information, see the Wikipedia. Return to Glossary. that included the corpus, or you're viewing a page that has an embedded Voyeur tool in it. If you prefer, you can also start without a corpus.

Interface Elements

Reader includes the standard set of interface elements (see image to the right). For more help with these see the Voyeur Tools Standard Interface Elements page.

When you load a collection of documents, you will see a panelWeb frameworks like the TAPoR Portal organize information into panels (sometimes called portlets or coplets.) These can me minimized, maximized and closed using the three buttons in the upper left-hand corner of the panel. With Voyant you can export panels of results and place them into other web sites. Return to Glossary. of coloured bars on the left of the screen. These bars represent the different documents within the corpus, and if you hover over them they will display the document title. Click on any of these documents to view it in Reader.

At the bottom left of the screen you will see a search panelWeb frameworks like the TAPoR Portal organize information into panels (sometimes called portlets or coplets.) These can me minimized, maximized and closed using the three buttons in the upper left-hand corner of the panel. With Voyant you can export panels of results and place them into other web sites. Return to Glossary.. Type in any term you would like to find within the corpus and Reader will highlight it within the documents.

Once you begin typing, Reader will give you suggestions for terms as you type. As soon as you search for a term, certain coloured bars will change depending on if they properly fit the search.

Exporting

Like all Voyeur tools, Reader can be reused in a variety of ways:

• create a link that is specific to the corpus and options that are currently being used
• embed the current corpus and options as a tool in an external page

For more information see exporting and reusing Voyeur Tools.