ETCSL navigation help

• Accessibility
• Moving around the site using headers and footers
• Moving about within the corpus
• Downloading the corpus
• Help with searching

Accessibility

This website is written in simple HTML 4.0 without tables or frames, and is designed to be read with any browser. If you have any accessibility problems, please email us: etcsl@orinst.ox.ac.uk.

Moving around the site using headers and footers

The header at the top of every page of this website contains links to the major components of the site.

• Clicking on The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature will take you to the ETCSL home page.
• On the following line there are links to the three different catalogues, which are described in more detail on the site description page. Use the catalogues to see what is in the corpus and to access composite texts, English translations, and bibliographies of the compositions in the corpus.
• Links on the same line will take you to pages giving information about the project. The names of these links, we hope, are self-explanatory, but we have provided descriptions of them too.
• Within the corpus itself, you can also follow links in the header to take you to the composite text, translation, or bibliography of the composition you are looking at. The display conventions used within the corpus pages are described in a separate document.
• The last line of the header gives links to two search facilities and an accompanying help page.

There is also a footer at the bottom of every page, enabling you to return to the top of the current page, to go to the ETCSL home page or to email the ETCSL team, or to search the corpus. In addition, within the corpus you can follow links in the footer to take you to the composite text, translation, or bibliography of the composition you are looking at.

Below the footer is information about when each page was created and last modified, and who is responsible for its content.

Moving about within the corpus

The ETCSL corpus is published as ordinary HTML documents on this website. For each composition there is a composite text in transliteration, a translation into English prose, and a short bibliography. The compositions are accessed through the catalogues. You cannot move directly between compositions, but there are three ways of moving between the translation, composite text, and bibliography for each one:

• Use the line markers at the beginning of each paragraph to jump between composite text and translation.
• Use the headers and footers at the top and bottom of each page to move between composite text, translation, and bibliography.
• Open an extra window in your Web browser to see composite text and translation together, or to compare two different compositions.

Downloading the corpus

HTML and SGML versions of the corpus are available from the Oxford Text Archive. Unfortunately the project itself does not have the facilities to provide the whole corpus to users, either in HTML or in SGML, but you can use the "Save As..." facility on the File menu of your web browser to download individual HTML files onto your own computer.

Searching the corpus (NB! Obsolete.)

Help with searching the corpus is provided on a separate page.

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Page created on 7.ix.2001 by ER. Last revised on 29.iii.2002 by ER. Revised 18.x.2006 by JE.