User's Guide for Film Collection
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1. Moving in the Database 1 Pages of the database can be reached using buttons above the chart on the right side of the screen 73 Motives Records Bto 10 of 255 Page 2 af 51 esum 0154 01 2 Button First navigates to the first 5 records first page of the database The button is active only if a first page exists compared to the actual position 3 Button steps 5 records 1 page from the actual position towards the first one The button is active only if a previous page exists compared to the actual position 4 Button steps 5 records 1 page from the actual position towards the last one he button is active only if a next page exists compared to the actual position 5 Button navigates to the last 5 records lastpage of the database The button is active only if a last page exists compared to the actual position 6 Button IS opens the search dialog window Its use is detailed in a sepa rate chapter below Institute for Musicology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Database of Traditional Dances ig 8 10 Zi 3 Button ITE changes the language button titles and column headings of the database into Hungarian Button in the second row of navigation buttons changes into the da tabase of Motive Collection Its content and use it described in a separate Guide The long text window in the second row of navigation buttons informs us about our actual position in2. by J nos F gedi L szl Felf ldi Zoltan Ka r csony and Gyula P lfy participated in creating the database structure Zsolt Kemecsei made the needed programming and his work included the database design Data input was made by J nos F gedi Zolt n Kar csony and Gyula P lfy The films were digitized partly in the Hungarian Film Laboratory partly in the In stitute for Musicology of HAS The project was supported by the Institute for Musicology of HAS The Film Collection is a public database the elements are permitted to be viewed and downloaded freely The Film Collection as a whole and each of its parts are under copyright pro tection Neither the Film Collection as a whole nor any one of its parts are al lowed to be published without the written permission of the Institute for Musi cology of HAS Institute for Musicology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Database of Traditional Dances is Database Structure The most important dance data appear in maximum 5 rows per screen 5 rows are considered a page in the database A row can be selected by clicking the underlined number leading the row On the picture below the second row is selected which is shown by its different color The data in a row are the archive reference number the local name of the dance the location of dance and the name of the performers In the last field of a row a frame of the dance can be seen Performer s Play film Mez k
3. the database As can be seen in the figure above we are at Record 610 255 Page 2 51 position that is at the 6th 10th record there are altogether 255 records available for browsing page position is 2 and the total number of pages is 51 Since Film Collection consist of 255 records we can browse now the entire collection The information widow serves especially useful data when search results are browsed How to perform a search can be read in the next chapter Searching and Filtering Data Button SE opens a search dialog window as can be seen below Field Filter expression m ret Hame of dance Dance type Dante Pance SURR EE Ibeironmemer bm o0 3 Dance dialect County Cancel SEARCHING Defaults A dance can be searched by its archive reference number When typing the number take care of its 4 2 syntax e g 0006 01 search conditions can be stated by the name type subtype performer s name location dialect and county of a dance Selecting a field is supported by rolling lists ugros ae vegcs rd s vegest nc vegest nc vagy mars v skat nc Locality vasv ri Performer s vasv ri verbunk Dance dialect verbunk Jverbunk s cs rd s SEARCHING Detaults Institute for Musicology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Database of Traditional Dances 4 oF 9 In case more than one se
4. Institute for Musicology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Database of Traditional Dances 10 12 User s Guide for Film Collection Introduction to Film Collection The Traditional Dance Archive of the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences HAS consists of four main collections films with dance recoding photos made during field research manuscripts and dance nota tions of the recorded dances For the time being structures of two main databases has been compiled that of the Film Collection and the Motive Collection One can be changed to the ofher and their content is interrelated As a first step the database of the Film Collection presents 255 identified sec tions of the 16 mm mainly black and white films in Iraditional Dance Archive A film section may present one or more dances depending on how many dancers or couples are dancing on a clip and what the type of their dance IS The selection of the dances followed two main points a fo give a represen tative overview on the types and dialects of the Hungarian traditional dances as stated by Gyorgy Martin b to sere public needs primarily dance educa tion on any level The dances were selected by Zolt n Farkas Batyu P ter L vai and Lujza Ratk The film sections clips are edited to start at the first moment of the dance s and finish when the dancer s stop dancing or the recording was interrupted The Film Collection project was led
5. arch condition is stated fields are related with AND operator s Button starts the search engine Results appear as main rows of the database E g if ugr s was selected as Dance type and village Ber zence as a Locality the search engine will bring up a result as below only those records which satisfy both conditions Lelt szam Tancn v Helys g El ad k Filmlejatszas Lelt sz m Szinkronhang nincs ugr s paras 1 0203 01 poy e Berzence Hodis G born id Banics Janos amp i 5 2 F ncalt pus d l dun nt li ugr s s T ncdialektus d l dun nt li Megye Somoc gc yu jto k 2 p ros i a A j 2 0203 02 a CECI Berzence ifj Banics Janos Santa Vendeln 3 1112 51 pui Berzence G czi Istv nn Kr nusza Istvan 2 p ros Horv th Gy rgy Horvath Gy rgyn G czi Istv nn 4112 52 kan szt nc Berzence kr nusza Istv n p ros Horvath Gy rgy Horvath Gy rgyn G czi Istv nn 3 1112 52 kanasztanc Berzence Kr nusza Istv n In case the result is not suitable another search can be made If the former search conditions are needed to be kept the best is to use the Back button of the internet browser When button Ife on the main page of the data base is pressed it opens the search window again with its default empty status Navigation buttons can be used in search results just as well as in case all the records are browsed Button and TT steps 5 5 rec
6. oma ram Progli Ferenc p 2 0029 01 kanasztaric Gencsapati Vincze Ferenc Gencsapati 3 0094 01 a unidentified The Arch ref Archive reference number syntax follows a form of 4 2 digits and sometimes a letter divided by dots The first 4 digits represent the archive number of the film containing the dance If the number does not reach one thousand four digits the missing digits are substituted by zeros such as 0006 0029 0094 in the picture above The two digits after the number of the film re fer to the serial number of film section in the whole film the number has to be completed by a zero to have two digits if needed In case of the first row in the picture above 0006 01 means the 1 section on film 6 A letter can follow the reference number of the section in case the same dance or its parts have more than one recording or the section consists of more than one dance type connected attacca when recorded e g a slow and a quick cs rd s In the third row of the above picture the dance is identified as 0094 01 a Dances 0094 01 b and 0094 01 c also available in this database All three were made from the same dance but during recording the camera was stopped Ihe column Name of Dance presents the local name of dance used by the original performers In the column Locality the name of the village or city can be read where the performer s of the dance were born The column Performer s in
7. ords forward or backward in the result list of records button BHIAN and reach the first or last records of search result respectively Without a search the Search window can be left by pressing button RERAN Button PT cancels all previously stated search conditions 10 After search the whole database can be reached again by pressing button which clears search fields then button BEZNING Institute for Musicology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Database of Traditional Dances sorting 1 Ihe default order of the main rows in either the whole database or the search result follows an increasing sequence by the Arch ref numbers Ihe order can be changed via the underlined headers of columns oles Ium popup un inis Perfa isti i Play film 2 Pressing Arch ref changes the increasing sequence of archive reference numbers to decreasing order Pressing Arch ref again the order is changes back to an increasing one 3 A first press of Name_of dance or Locality creates an increasing ABC se quence by name of dance or name of the villages Pressing the headers again will change to a decreasing ABC sequence 4 Column header Play film works as Arch ref
8. troduces the names of all performers In case per formers names are alike for unambiguous identification their names are aug mented with the name of their village in brackets In those cases the names of the performers are not known the names are replaced by the text unidenti fied Institute for Musicology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Database of Traditional Dances 8 9 10 11 13 14 Fo Clicking the dance frame picture in the last field of a row the dance can be played back Using the right button the clip can be downloaded select the line Save link target as from the appearing menu The clips are available in WMV file format with 320x240 resolution A chart on the right presents further data of the dance in the selected row see the picture below To confirm identification the first field of the chart re peats the archive number of the selected film section Arc href 0029 01 a m m Dance type z T dz 15 Dance subtype ran s zt nc Dane e dialect ugat dun nt li county Was S Fiel n researc hers Date of field EUNT ME research 1948 01 22 yy mm dd Related dance ENTM HB EIUS pene wan l The Dance Film Archive of the Institute for Musicology consists of mute and sounds films approximately in equal number While selecting material for the database the sound films were preferred though several dances which rep resented important
9. types and dance dialects were available only in mute versions The second row of the chart named as Sound informs about the existence or lack of music on the film clip The rows Dance Type Dance Subtype Dance Dialect present scientific categories following a system stated by Gyorgy Martin since village names sometime can be alike in different regions identification is helped by showing region in the field identified as County The chart also includes the name s of researcher s The date of research is given in yyyy mm dd format In case the day is not know the year and the month are given or sometimes only the year is know Reference to notated motives of the dance can be found in the last row of the chart in case they are available The number of the icons represents the number of motives According to the example below four notations of the se lected dance can be called forth Date of field research 4952 O4 05 yr m m i dd peses csee E E E E no d Tu a Ez ESO Institute for Musicology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Database of Traditional Dances 16 Clicking an icon the notation itself appears below the chart The notation can also be downloaded by right clicking the notation and selecting the line dave picture as The file format is PNG the identifier of the motive is the name of the file Itself lee 4 05 r mm i dd Rel ated dance riatatio in s I
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