2014-10-31

General

• Added the Winter look-and-feel. Try it!
• Fixed predefinition handling so that you can add a new predefinition and have it show up in your list of predefinitions to apply without having to start a fresh session.
• Added an OCHRE Tutorial project, with sample Tutorial exercises available on the Wiki.
• Added Preferences to front-end presentations.

Resources

• Added an "overview map" to the table-of-contents on Map view.
• Added a tool to "itemize" shapefiles, breaking up a shapefile consisting of many shapes into individual shapefiles that are linked specifically to an OCHRE item.

Textual/Lexical

• Handled compound words and plurals better in assorted contexts.
• Fussed with anti-aliasing settings to try to improve rendering of certain fonts.
• Removed epigraphic items tagged as "separators" from consideration when building discourse units.

New on the Wiki/Website

• Itemizing Shapefiles
• OCHRE Tutorial
• A Tale of Two Artifacts

2014-07-20

General

• Implemented the use of OCHRE offline! This is particularly well suited for archaeological projects running OCHRE directly from the field. Download on your way out the door; sync up at the end of the day. See Running OCHRE Offline for details.
• Changed the action of the Go to feature when viewing an item in a window. Previously the window would stay open and the item go-to'd would be shown in View mode. Now the window is closed and the item go-to'd is available in Edit mode, if appropriate.
• Adjusted user interface windows and pop-ups to work better under a dual-screen configuration.
• Added some User Preferences related to viewing of Texts (other preferences will be considered or added in the future).
• Adjusted the Comprehensive View to pick up more property-related context.

Query

• Allowed searching of Pending Content of a Text.
• Adjusted Other Criteria "No links to" to take into account property-based relational links, not just loose links, for both Texts and Spatial units.
• Refined searching of Dictionary items. Dictionary-based queries can now be Scoped by Lemma, by Grammatical form, or by Attested form. If properties are being queried, only properties of the items at the level being scoped will be considered.
• Allowed searching for Discourse Units by Epigraphic links. Words that contain the given characters (alphabetic languages) or syllables (logosyllabic languages) in the correct sequence are returned as matches. Searching by epigraphic links takes precedence over all other options and does not compound with other criteria. Note: to distinguish searching based on syllables vs. alphabetically, in cases where it is ambiguous (e.g. "ul" -- is this an alphabetic word or a syllable?), use an extra "syllable separator" (e.g. "ul-") to trigger syllable-based searching over alphabetic.
• Improved Find Links from the Linked Items pane to work better with dictionary-related entries. E.g. this can now be used to find all words linked to an attested form, grammatical form, or lemma, of a dictionary entry.

Resources

• Fixed some problems with the OCHRE-Identify tool that lets you click on a map to view the OCHRE item description (instead of the GIS table data).
• Adjusted the map View on the Links toolbar to include the "self" item at the bottom of the map layer list. E.g., if the Resource represents an archaeological top-plan, and its Links represent the shapefiles of all the loci shown on the top-plan, then the map view will display all of the loci shapes with the top-plan as the bottom-most layer as a backdrop.

Textual/Lexical

• Updated the Prosopography tool to add a Predefinition-that-includes-a-relational-variable-of-type-Person to the Discourse unit (word) being processed, in order to make the Person-link. See the Prosopography Wizard for details.
• Adapted the Lexicography tool to handle compound words, including compound names, more effectively. See the Lexicography Wizard for details.
• Fixed some problems with highlighting words looked up in a Glossary from the Text using the glossary-lookup cursor.
• Allowed Discourse unit items to have Periods. This lets them be tagged explicitly as pertaining to a Period that might be mentioned in the Text.

New on the Wiki/Website:

• Running OCHRE Offline

Resources

• Allowed user to create overlapping polygonal hotspots.
• Added polyline and sketch modes as additional options for image hotspotting.
• Added "undo" button to remove the most-recently-added segment/point when creating sketch, polygon or polyline hotspots.
• Added some intelligence regarding placing hotspot labels so as to fall more-closely on the hotspot shape being labelled. This was particularly problematic for irregularly shaped polygonal hotspots. Previously the label was being drawn at the center of the bounding rectangle, often falling outside of the actual shape. This should be improved in many cases.
• Added a new Mapping feature to allow users to assign coordinates to database items interactively. See Managing Point Coordinates.
• Added the option to turn grid-lines on/off, drawn at integral-intervals across the map extent both horizontally and vertically.

Textual/Lexical

• Tweaked the PDF output to include the text Name, Language and Type, even if the "Description" pane is turned off in the View.

Features you may have missed from prior years

Taxonomy

• Added option to designate Variables as "coordinate" type for integrating with built-in mapping features. See Variables of Type Coordinate.