Instructions for Users
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 A Musicologist's
View on NEUMES Data-Entry
- Dr Debra Lacoste presents this essay giving her opinion on
NEUMES Data Entry from a musicologist's viewpoint .
Program
Description
- Presented here is the NEUMES Data-Entry Applet, version 2.
This is a computer program to assist in creating digital
transcriptions of chant, including NEUMES character data and NeumesXML descriptive metadata.
(See, screenshot-1 [filesize: 118 kB] and
screenshot-2 [filesize: 93 kB] for a prevue.)
Note: this version is still in 'beta test'; it lacks many features
that we have planned for user-friendliness and generality, and it is not yet ready for production work.1
- With this Applet, you can save and retrieve NeumesXML transcriptions to/from your local computer disk.
You can copy chant text into your transcription from other programs or Web sites.
Syntax-checking is supported, and you can view your transcription in NeumesXML 'beta-test' visualization.
There is a graphical panel for viewing source manuscript images.
Deployment
Instructions
- The data-entry program is a Java™ Applet that runs inside your Web browser.
Your browser will retrieve the Applet from the NEUMES Project's webserver, and execute the program your browser's
Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
Your browser's JVM must support Java version 1.4.2 or higher, which is available for Windows®
PC, UNIX, Linux, Macintosh® OS X, and other computer platforms.
(See, the Compatibility table, below.)
- Graphical viewing of transcriptions requires JavaScript and pop-up windows to be
enabled in your browser.
We recommend that you enable these features just for the NEUMES domain (www.scribeserver.com),
but you may do so for all domains.
- We highly recommend that you use the Java Plug-In,
version 1.4 or higher.
The Java Plug-In guarantees that you will be running the latest version of the Data-Entry Applet.
The Java Plug-In automatically checks for updates to the program components.
If it finds a new version, it downloads the newer version to your computer;
otherwise, the last version you ran executes again without any further downloading.
- Note: To run this program, Java Security requires that you
'Grant this session' (or 'Run', or 'trust the signed applet' ... the wording depends on what browser you are using).
This is required so that you can load and save NEUMES transcriptions or
manuscript images from/to your computer's disk. It is required also for the cut/copy/paste operations, and for
copying chant text from other websites.
Finally, it is required in order to save your Applet settings, so that the Applet will behave according to your preferences
on the next time you run it.
Note: The NEUMES Data-Entry Applet is digitally signed
by encryption to deter tampering by unauthorized parties.
We have made every effort to ensure the security of your computer while running this Applet.
However, the NEUMES Project cannot assume liability for consequential damages that anyone might claim as a result of
using this Applet.
Transcription
Tutorial
- For a tutorial on creating NEUMES transcriptions, see,
"NEUMES
Transcription Primer."
The Primer was written mainly for Western European (Latin) neume notations, but much of the instruction is
applicable also to Eastern Orthodox or Byzantine chant transcription.
The Primer is accessible also from within the Applet in the 'Help' menu.
 RUN the Program
(in a new window)
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