User's Manual

Final version, 2002-11-04

Andras Micsik and Csaba Fulop

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User's Manual

The Server (Registry)

The home page of the CORES registry is http://cores.dsd.sztaki.hu.The user can do the following things with the registry:

Browse Schemas

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There are links on the main page and in the footer to the content of the registry.

The content can be listed in two views:

The user can list a selected group of resources from the main page or from the footer. There are links in the list to the details.

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From the detailed view she can reach the associated resources (Encoding Schemes, Responsible Agency, etc.).
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Search Schemas

The search page can be reached from the main page. The user can select the kind of resource she would like to search and gives the search string. The search is not executed on the names only, but on all the descriptions of resources.

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Browse Annotations

List the annotations for a resource by the link at the detailed page.

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The annotation list opens in a new window. The annotations is ordered by they creation date. The user can see the creator, the creation date, the annotation type and the access fields for annotations.

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Add/Edit/Delete Annotations

New annotations can be added by clicking the 'add new annotation' link on the annotation list. Then the login page opens. To add annotations the user have to register. If she has not registered yet then she can register by clicking the 'create new account' link.

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For annotations she can send the type, access and body of the annotation. The type can be comment, advice, example, explanation or question. The access can be 'public' or 'private'. Her private annotations can't be seen by others. To body of the annotation she can write HTML code.

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After she has logged in (the login link is in the footer or via annotation adding) she can edit or delete by the links in the bottom of her annotations.

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The Client

Create Schemas

Application Profiles, Element Sets or Encoding Shemes can be created. The Element Sets and Encoding Schemes browser can be seen only in Advanced Mode. The mode can be select from the Mode menu.

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The active browser (Application Profiles, Element Sets or Encoding Schemes) can be selected by clicking on its label.

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(you can not change the active browser by clicking in the browser because it is disturbing during Drag&Drop)

After selecting the proper browser the user can create Element Sets, Elements, etc. by the 'add...' buttons or remove the selected resource from the selected browser by the remove button.

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After she has filled out the details she has to click to the 'Change' button.

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She can associate Encoding Schemes to Elements or Element Usages and Elements to Element Usages by Drag&Drop.

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Search the registry

There is a search registry window. The user can search the CORES registry for Element Sets and Encoding Schemes.

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She can associate the hits to her schema with Drag&Drop.

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Store Schemas (save/upload)

After the schema has created the user can save it to her local computer or upload to the CORES registry. She can save from the file menu

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or upload with the 'cores registry' button in the upper right corner.

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Add annotations

The user can add annotations to her schema from the client, too. She have to select the proper browser and resource then click the 'Annotate' button.

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She can send the same fields like from the web registry and she has to use the same account.

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