Help page for ChantExplorer
Here you can find pieces of advice for smooth usage of ChantExploler app - web application for those interested in
computational research on Gregorian chant and map visualizations of sources of chant.
Sections
Functions
Home page
Home page provides redirect to Search tool page as well as users authentification options.
It also let you have a look on what provenances of sources are known to the tool and so what you can and cannot expect in the results of provided search.
It also let you have a look on what provenances of sources are known to the tool and so what you can and cannot expect in the results of provided search.
Searching tool
Web page refered as tool is main research playground. Given schemata should show you, how to make desired search.
Overview
Form fill consists of five steps:
List of abbreviations:
Overview
List of abbreviations:
- V, M, L, V2
- - standard Cantus Index abbreviations for services: First Vespers, Matins, Lauds, Second Vespers
- Basic CI dataset
- - it is dataset consisting of antiphons and responsories that were reachable in Cantus Index database in February 2024
Results of traditions search
Results of search for potential traditions in repertoire can be examine in three different ways:
Dataset maintenance
To authenticated users (those registered and logged in) we offer possibilty to work with their own selected data.
Named datasets are then shown to its owner user in search form.
there is possibility of public datasets that allows users to make their datasets accesible for all other users and also use public dataasets of others.
To start with this option please follow instruction in section Custom datasets
Named datasets are then shown to its owner user in search form.
there is possibility of public datasets that allows users to make their datasets accesible for all other users and also use public dataasets of others.
To start with this option please follow instruction in section Custom datasets
Basic search
To make basic search in Tool you need to pick feast or feasts to look at, also amount and type of offices
User accounts
To enable some features (like custom datasets) we add
Custom datasets
Your custom dataset can be taken from at most two files.
We support files in .csv format (for example chants.csv).
For partiular columns follow instruction bellow, just do not forget to chcekt that leading zeros in IDs (such as in Cantus ID: 005436 for example) are preserved in submitted file.
All sources from sources file are added to database so please be careful what is in your file.
We support files in .csv format (for example chants.csv).
For partiular columns follow instruction bellow, just do not forget to chcekt that leading zeros in IDs (such as in Cantus ID: 005436 for example) are preserved in submitted file.
All sources from sources file are added to database so please be careful what is in your file.
Chants file format
Sources file format
Geogrpahy info update
Problems report
Something seems not working or broken?
You uploaded wrong source info?
Wrong provenances matched?
Do not worry and tell us! The easiest way is to report your problem via
You uploaded wrong source info?
Wrong provenances matched?
Do not worry and tell us! The easiest way is to report your problem via
You have not found answer to your question?
Do not worry! You can still ask the administrators :-D Feel free to conntact us the same way that is described in section about reporting problems.