User Manual - Czechoslovak Specialist
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1. You can t get there from here a much quoted piece of rural Americana does not apply to the indexes Many different paths from as many starting points will lead to sought after information Some suggested paths follow Say you have a term at hand perhaps Revenue Stamps Open the Author Subject indexes using the sidebar button then click on the R button on the Author Subject index page Be sure to get R and not R You could scroll down the page until the entry for Revenue Stamps is found or you might type Revenue Stamps into your browser s search dialog The search dialog is usually accessed by pressing CTRL F in Windows programs or CMD F on Apple computers Once in the search dialog the search usually begins as soon as a letter is typed so you may find there is no need to type the whole phrase Typing R doesn t do much good because every entry in this section starts with that letter Nor does typing Re as that pair of letters is quite common Entering Rev moves us a bit more down the page but not very far However adding one more letter to the search term Reve moves to the correct entry in the section Revenue Stamps Note This example works as type this but that may change as new data gets added to the index The principle however remains valid While scrolling down the page would have brought you to the same entry you might also have scrolled past it and you certainly would have had to stop from time just to see ho2. dash for the first two for the second and three for the third level Subdivisions help break up large topics into related smaller ones thus supporting topic granularity Art Nouveau Stoves see Historical Stoves Issues 2010 Art on Stamps see also Paintings Issues Modern Czech and Slovak graphic art on postage stamps Adolf Hujer May 1983 p 1 Um ni a znamka art and the postage stamp Title varies Gerald M van Zanten Apr 1988 p 15 Jun 1988 p 4 Jan 1989 p 3 Feb 1989 p 14 Apr 1990 p 13 Aug Sep 1990 p 12 Oct 1990 p 13 Figure 5 Cross Reference A final piece of information may be present see and see also cross references Clicking on a blue cross reference take the user to the suggested subject heading even if it appears in another section of the index On the first line of Figure 5 the see cross reference leads the user away from an unused term no articles will be listed under it to a related term used by the index In this instance clicking on the blue Questions and Answers will move the user from the A to the Q section On the other hand with a see also term the user is taken from a valid broad term articles are listed under it to a related or perhaps narrower term In the instance shown at the bottom of Figure 5 the link moves focus from Antarctica to Global Warming Preservation of Ice Caps Author Entries Sturman Paul Artist creators of Czechoslovak stamps Title vanes Apr 1980 p 4 May 1980
3. sidebar Once one set of catalogs has been opened the other s button takes its place in the navigational sidebar making it unnecessary to move the cursor to toggle between the two catalog pages In addition once a catalog section on one page has been selected clicking on the other alternative catalog s button opens the same section in that catalog Page 12 The Copies of The Czechoslovak Specialist Page SIOMECIWRIEISC Copies of The Specialist Page The links below lead to Individual copies of The Specialist stored on the Soclety for a Czechoslovak Philately s website The Society delays mounting the current year s Issues for a Other Index Pages Fele Grayed out entries represent unavailable issues not yet mounted on the Society s i Author Subject Click on the name of the issue you wish to see i EAE E J POIs 2073 Winter Spring Summer _Fal_ 2070 Winter Spring Summer _Fal_ General Iniormaton 2008 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec D 2006 JaniFeb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct NoviDec EEC 2005 Jan Feb MariApr May Jun Juv Aug Sep Oc 2004 JanvFeb Mar Apr May Jun JulAug Sep 2005 JaniFeb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug 2002 JaniFeb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug 2001 JaniFeb Mari Apr May Jun JulrAuc 2000 Jan Feb Mar Apr May dun Jul Aug 1399 JaniFeb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Augl Sep zZ a Oo a zZ f gji a z ov D
4. 34 General Information Siranov Religious thought and philosophy as depicted on the stamps of Czechoslovakia C Hedley Osbourn Jun 4964 p 96 Report index Errors Strahovska Madona Strahovska Madona Scott Czech Republic 2908 POFIS Ceska Fi Republica 27 1350s art Gerald M van zanten Sep Oct 2004 p27 New issues Czech Republic Gerald M van zanten Jan Feb 1994 p 21 St Nicholas Postal Card Postal issues of Czechoslovakia and Slovakia with Ukrainian connections Andrij D solezanyk Jul Aug 2000 p 15 Figure 2 Author Subject Page As explained earlier the Author Subject page may be reached from every other page by clicking on the Author Subject button in the navigational sidebar Note that on this page a new button Entire Index and a 5x6 grid of buttons somewhat resembling a typewriter s keys have been added to the navigational sidebar Figure 2 displays the A section of the Author Subject index the default section opened when the Author Subject key is pressed Note that the letter A in the grid is depressed and has yellow text indicating it represents the currently selected index section The other twenty nine sections of the Author Subject index may be brought into the content area by pressing the appropriate letter grid button The new button Entire Index as the name suggests opens all thirty pages of the Author Subject listings as a single listing and is discussed in its own section o
5. Interactive Indexes to THE CZECHOSLOVAK SPEYALIST Journal of the Society for Czechoslovak Philately an Incorporated Non Profit Organization Contents Click on an entry to go immediately to that section of the manual MOGUO apn grog dae dae ie sinuice Mesto sh se Sp eur a fe ec cB Ge Se oo A otet ta deer eg ke ee EEEE 3 US a ee ee ee ee ee eee eee 3 lel eee a ee ea E ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 4 Me a a ost ee ak oe aoe eh SoG oh Sr a oe we ee eG OE ees 5 Czech and Slovak Alphabet Arrangement 0 ccc ee eee een eee nee een nee n en eenns 5 Key t the a Subject es cv suneeneccae ded dir in tae e eee OE RONOKE SES Se RARER GSES SoG R eater edadeds 6 COG cc east otudng edad sted pears cheat en ahead eee dake 8 ue teed EE dene ewd as aas 6 DS cds ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 7 Searching Sl ee ee oe ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 8 eos ogg ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 9 ELN A bea ka ey be ean OG ae DOS G4 nd 4k eR AN ee eee oS ae ene EE eens 10 The Scott and POFIS Pages occa x cies 6 44 45 05 RA OAD ER ON OEE aE THDY O48 Oo Re EE REMAe waR OR 11 The Copies of The Czechoslovak Specialist Page eee ee eee e ene teen nee e ene ennnees 12 2014 Valerie Kramer P O Box 49 Port Orford OR 97465 Special thanks to Mark Wilson who created the original version of this document Page 3 Introduction The Interactive Indexes to The Czechoslovak Specialist support searches by author and subject as well as by tw
6. Oxygen website lt oXygen gt AML Editor Figure 1 The Home Page The indexes open to the Home Page which just as every other page consists of a banner at the top a navigational side bar on the left topped for orientation purposes by the page s name and its content on the right Click the buttons in the navigational sidebar to select a specific index section or function A hint amplifying each button s purpose appears whenever a cursor hovers over it The User Manual button which only appears on the Home Page opens this document The Author Subject button opens the author and subject indexes The catalog number indexes may be accessed by clicking on either the Scott or the POFIS button The Thesaurus button opens a list of terms used in the indexes and the Articles Indexed button opens a chronological list of articles Issues of The Czechoslovak Specialist are available on the page opened by the Copies of The Specialist button Errors found within the indexes may be reported to the publisher by clicking on the Report Index Errors button On most computers this button will open the user s email application Use the bottom button to visit the Society for Czechoslovak Philately s website Since all but the User Manual button appear on every other index page their functionality is available to the user at all times Note the lack of a Home Page button no page carries its own button The indexes current revision informati
7. er ui ep Oc d HEHE Hp D g alle c Figure 11 The Copies of The Czechoslovak Specialist Page Sometimes the indexes are not required When the year and issue number of a specific The Czechoslovak Specialist is already known access this page by clicking on the Copies of The Czechoslovak Specialist button in the navigation sidebar of any of the other pages To locate an issue read down the light blue Year column on the left side of the table shown in Figure 11 then across that row until the desired issue number from that year is found Click on that box and the issue will open in a new window several issues may be opened at the same time each will reside in its own window Note that grayed out issues are not available for viewing but that every issue shown is indexed
8. evolt 1848 General iiome 1948 100th Anniversary of Abolition Academies i i Report index Errors Academy f Music and Dramatic Arts Sa Coe Pratislava Prague Slovak Academy of Sciences Actors Figure 9 The Thesaurus Page The Thesaurus page closely resembles the Author Subject page to which in fact it is intimately related The major dif ferences are that the terms are now predominately in a blue color indicating they are hyperlinks most of the information attached to an Author Subject index heading has disappeared and there are no author entries only subjects The thesaurus is a list of terms used in the index Examining the thesaurus will reveal how ideas about a topic have been handled and how the indexer may have preferred one term over another Also if one is unsure of any term a thesau rus suggests alternative terms The links in the thesaurus behave differently than those in the Author Subject index for one thing there are no direct links to articles Clicking on a blue term even a cross reference takes the user to that term in the Author Subject index where the articles are listed Red terms in the thesaurus represent terms not used in the Author Subject index clicking on them has no effect The new button Entire Thesaurus opens up a combined listing of all Thesaurus terms Clicking on terms in it will also take one to the appropriate place in the Author Subject index The Entire Thesauru
9. f the manual Czech and Slovak Alphabet Arrangement If a letter is selected from the 5x6 grid of letters the section of the Author Subject index listing terms and authors start ing with that letter fills the content area Terms starting with the diacritically marked consonants R and Z each have their own sections but vowels with diacritic markings file as though no diacritic were present Page 6 Note that the Czech digraph CH is interfiled in the C section of the index as though it were the two Latin letters C and H so there is no separate section for the diagraph Any initial d D hacek I L hacek or t T hacek is filed as though it were the unadorned letter but may still be searched with or without its diacritic marking Key to the Author Subject Entries Subject Entries Hrad any Issue Hradcany Issue Scott Czechoslovakia 1 53 POFIS Ceskoslovensko 1 26 see a so First Postage Stamp Here are listed articles about the Hrad any stamps See Hrad any for articles about the place Czechosi ovakia s first postage stamps Jind ich Novacek Apr 1959 p 56 Czechosiovakia s Hradcany issue provides myriad opportunities for stamp collectors Frank A Garancovsky Spring 2010 p 3 Comment Letters fo fhe editor Mark Wilson summer 2010 p 21 editor Anthony F Dewey Mar Apr 2002 p 26 Jul Aug 2002 p 18 First issue in the postal museum John Velek Nov 1963 p 135 For beginners the philately of Czechos
10. les in a normal font may be less authoritative The names of the authors and other responsible parties appear after the title If additional information about the cited article exists such as a letter to the editor a gray Comment or Response note within curly brackets is inserted directly after the citation When an article has been serialized over several issues of The Czechoslovak Specialist that article will have multiple citations arranged in ascending chronological order Citations consist of the issue s number followed by its year of publication and the page on which the article begins Clicking on the blue citation at the end of an article s entry opens a PDF copy of The Czechoslovak Specialist to the top of the page on which the article appears Sometimes one must scroll down to find the actual article Note when the cursor hovers over a blue link its background color will turn bright blue and its lettering white MOSM A to help distinguish one link from another and to indicate to the user that the link is active Page 7 National Galleries Czech and Slovak 199 Scott Czechoslovakia 2872 2874 POFIS eskoslovensko 3025 3027 New issues Title vanes or absent Gerald M van Zanten Jan Feb 1993 p 15 Figure 4 Topic Subdivisions Subject headings may be broken down into as many as three crimson colored subdivisions Each level of subdivision is indented incrementally and is preceded by an indication of its level one
11. lovakia Tithe vanes Phillips B Freer Ssummer 2010 p 11 For the beginner Phillips B Freer Sep Oct 1991 p 10 Hradcany plate set up Frank J Kovank Jun 1957 p 90 Hradcany stamp perforations 7den k Kvasnicka translated by George R Skopecek May 1957 p 70 Figure 3 A Subject Heading Entry A subject heading begins with the main topic in a bold crimson color One may find any or none of the following pieces of information immediately following the main topic Should the words in the main topic contain diacritics a transliterated gray colored version in square brackets appears directly after the main term This transliteration permits users to search using their browser s Find on this Page functionality any section of the index without having to key in the diacritics If the main topic refers to a stamp or set of stamps the heading is followed by the names of the Scott and POFIS catalog sections in green and their respective catalog numbers in gray all within a set of parentheses Under some headings there may be a scope note a statement describing what kind of articles are listed under the current topic such as Here are listed articles about A scope note may contain suggested related topics but these suggestions are not hyperlinked A list of articles in alphabetical order arranged by title usually follows each subject heading Titles rendered in a bold face font typically contain substantial information tit
12. o sets of catalog numbers Scott the standard American reference and POFIS the authoritative Czech language catalog A chrono logical list of all indexed articles and a thesaurus of subject terms provide auxiliary support The indexes are called interactive because most citations contains a hyperlink to a PDF copy of the journal containing the cited article Multiple articles may be reviewed simultaneously Citations to newer issues of the journal may not have such a link as the issues may not yet be available on the Web As a convenience hundreds of the citations are annotated with the two catalogs section names and numbers In es sence users have at their fingertips an immense encyclopedia devoted to Czechoslovak philately The award winning The Czechoslovak Specialist published by the Society for Czechoslovak Philately since 19339 is filled with information useful to collectors While the journal documents the Society s members and their activities its chief focus is upon thoughtful research ranging in level from beginner to expert into every aspect of Czechoslovak philately Another useful feature regularly published in The Czechoslovak Specialist are succinct abstracts of contemporary philatelic literature these citations may be located under the heading Book Reviews More information about The Czechoslovak Specialist and the Society for Czechoslovak Philately may be found of the Society s website www csphilately org U
13. on appears at the bottom of the navigation bar The Home Page s content con sists of general information about the indexes the SCP and The Czechoslovak Specialist Page 5 The Author Subject Page THE CZECHOSLOVAK SPECIALIST Author Subject Page For A search by Author Subeect OQOEe ae Abbeys and Monasteries Bravnov Brevnov it Czech Republic 2883 cesk Republica 7 eBoonck qd Bi E Scott Czech Republic 2883 POFIS esk Republica 7 GP U Pi New issues Czech Republic Gerald M van Zanten Sep Oct 1993 p 16 RI eo Emauzy Scott Czech Republic 3395 POFIS esk Republica 571 Pwo x ZEZ New issues Czech Republic Gerald M van Zanten Sep Oct 2008 p 29 Hronsk Be adik Hronsky Benadik Scott Slovakia 521 POFIS Slovensk R 399 Other Index Pages New issues Slovakia Gerald M van zanten Sep Oct 200 p 37 Entire Index Jasov Scott Slovakia 521 POFIS Slovensk R 393 New issues Slovakia Gerald M van zanten sep Ocv200 p37 Order of Barefoot Carmelites e New issues Czech Republie Gerald M van Zanten Summer 2010 p 22 Osek Scott Czech Republic 3305 POFIS esk Republica 469 New issues Czech Republic Gerald M van zanten May Jun 2006 p 29 Cee Porta Coell Scott Czech Republic 3213 POFIS esk Republica 371 Copies of The Specialist Modem postal history Lubor Kunc Jul Aug 2004 p 18 3 New issues Czech Republic Gerald M van Zanten Jan Feb 2004 p
14. p 37 Coples of The Specialist Order of Barefoot Carmelites New issues Czech Republic Gerald M van zanten Summer 2010 p 22 Osek Scott Czech Republie 3305 POFIS esk Republica 469 New issues Czech Republic Gerald M van zanten May Jun 2006 p 29 Report Index Errors Porta Coell Scott Czech Republic 3213 POFIS esk Republica 371 Atoderm postal history Lubor Kunc Jul Aug 2004 p 18 SCP Website d New issues Czech Republic Gerald M van zanten Jan Feb 2004 p 34 Strahov Religious thought and philosophy 8s depicted on the stamps of Czechoslovakia G Hedley Osboum Jun 1964 p 96 Strahovska Madona Strahovska Madona Scott Czech Republic 2908 POFIS esk Republica 27 1390 s art Gerald M van zanten Sep Oct 2004 p 27 New issues Czech Republic Gerald M van Zanten Jan Feb 1994 p 21 Ot Nicholas Postal Card Postal issues of Czechoslovakia and Slovakia with Ukrainian connections Andrij D solczanyk Jul Aug 2000 p 15 Velehrad Scott Czechoslovakia 147 POFIS eskoslovensko 238 Nilo icang of 1929 Petor Kreischer Dociad r Emauzy Scott Czech Republic 3395 POFIS esk Republica 571 General Information Figure 8 The Entire Index Page The Entire Index Page resembles the Author Subject page the only page that has an Entire Index button but does not have that page s letter grid The reason is that the content on this page combines all thirty sections of the A
15. p 7 Jun 1980 p 2 Sep 1980 p 13 Dec 1980 p 4 Early communication systems in Slovakia Feb 1984 p 5 First Slovak stamp club organized in 1895 Nov 1985 p 11 Heavy cancellations and mutilations Dec 1989 p 17 As Reviewer Course of postal service through history Jan 1980 p 12 As Translator 1936 field post money order markings Feb 1980 p 1 Altered design of TGM 50h Mar 1988 p 2 Figure 6 Author Entry Exemplar Author headings in bold black may be subdivided by the person s relationship to the listed articles for instance As Re viewer The initial listing of titles represent those authored or co authored by the named person the indented listings make explicit the person s relationships to other articles Author headings always precede the subject heading for the same name in the Index Articles are arranged alphabetically by title and as with subject heading the citations to a series of articles fall at the end of the title in chronological order Page 8 Jiranek Vladimir Jiranek Vladimir see also Cartoonists Jir nek Vladimir Jirasek Alois 1851 1930 Jirasek Alois see Writers Jir sek Alois 1851 1930 Figure 7 Author Entries with See and See Also Cross Reference Author headings just as do subject headings may have see and see also cross references These lead either to the actu al entries See or to additional entries see also for that name Searching Hints
16. s page has not been illustrated it parallels the Thesaurus Page in the same way the Entire Index page parallels the Author Subject page The locations of the Author Subject and Thesaurus buttons permit toggling between the two pages Page 11 The Scott and POFIS Pages THE CZECHOSLOVAK SPECIALIST POFIS Page for v Ceska Republica POFIS Ceska Republica Mher Available 4 PORIS Catalogue Seckons New issues Title varies or absent Mar Apr 1993 p 14 Slovenska R Gechy a Morava New issues Czech Republic May Juni1993 p 22 Slovensky Stat Ceskoslovensko Charles bridge in Prague Nov Dec 2008 p 3 c0 1920 i Joint issues Nov Dec 2002 p 18 i Letters fo the editor Mar Apr 2002 p 27 Vojensk New issues Czech Republic May Jun 1993 p 22 Other Index Fages New issues Czech Republic May Jun 1993 p 22 Scott Author Subject New issues Czech Republic Sep Octu 1993 p 16 Thesaurus Articles Indexed New issues Czech Republic Sep Oct 1993 p 16 Copies of The Specialist o New issues Czech Republic SepiOct 1993 p 16 General Information Home P soled the Czech Republic counterfeit items May Jun 1997 p 18 _ Report Index Errors New issues Title varies or absent Jul Aug 1994 p 18 CP Website 10 New issues Czech Republic Sep Oct 1993 p 16 Figure 10 A Catalog Page The Catalog Pages may be reached from any other page by clicking on the Scott or POFIS buttons found in the navi gational
17. sing the Indexes Six different kinds of pages make up the indexes the Home Page the Author Subject Page the Thesaurus Page the two Catalog Pages Scott and POFIS the Copies of The Czechoslovak Specialist Page and the Articles Indexed Page Each page s features and use are described in the following sections of this document In their work experienced Czechoslovak philatelists may encounter a number of scripts Latin with diacritics Cyrillic and German Gothic The indexes use only Latin with diacritic fonts The Czechoslovak territories underwent numerous unifi cations and divisions For the most part geopolitical entities appear as sub entries under topics of philatelic interest such as Postal History Bohemia and Moravia rather than as their own entry Advice on using browser functionality for finding all such entries is discussed in the section The Author Subject Index Page 4 The Home Page SPECIALIST Home Page Interactive Indexes Introduction e Rebbe The Interactive Indices to the 1935 2010 issues of the Czechoslovak Specialist support searches by author and subject as well as by two sets of catalog numbers Scott the standard American tool and POFIS the major Czech language catalog The indices are called interactive Open User Manual because every citation contains a hyperlink to a readable PDF copy of the article cited Multiple articles may be reviewed simultaneously Index Pages Within the more than 400 pages
18. that make up the indices are some 15 000 citations 3400 subject Author Subject headings and nearly 700 author headings For quick reference purposes thousands of the citations are annotated with catalog numbers In essence users have at their fingertips an scott a nee immense encyclopedia devoted to Czechoslovak philately POFIS Thesaurus The award winning Czechoslovak Specialist published by the Society for Czechoslovak Philately Articles Indexed Since 1939 is filled with information useful to collectors There are lists in the various languages 7 we eufrent in the Czech and Slovak territories of post office and place name equivalents The journal s ee dictionaries assist in translating philatelic terms and it has published extensive descriptions of newly released stamps for the past seventy years Issues contain thoughtful and focused articles Ganeral Information about every aspect of Czechoslovak philately ranging In level from beginner to expert On occasion the Specialist provides translations of lengthy works published in serial form Report Index Errors SCP Website More Information about the Specialist and the Society for Czechoslovak Philately may be found on Revised al 9 79 4m its web site wwew csphilately org on sumday 13 July 2014 Special thanks must go to the producers of the Oxygen XML Editor the application used to create the ASLT style sheets behind these indexes Click on the logo below to visit the
19. uthor Subject index into a single file Having the entire index at hand means the example search in the previous example may be applied to the whole index Again to start the search am required to type several letters before the word revenue appears highlighted on the screen this time as part of the title of an article rather than as a subject entry The article may be one already listed or a new find the indexer missed As my search continues by clicking next in the search dialog or using the appropriate shortcut key for that brows er many items will duplicate those already located during my original search Others may be irrelevant as the few letters typed may match part of some other word reven for example would find Cancer Prevention But you may also find new listings so it is worth the search Page 10 The Thesaurus Page S MES CIRILISC Thesaurus Page For A Seach Thesaurus Ge D G Abbeys and Monasteries G O O OOO B evnov Brevnov oQoodcqQ Emauzy od oud Hronsk Befadik Hronsky Benadik Ww X vi z EJ Jasov Order of Barefoot carmelites Other index Pages zek Entire Thesaurus d Porta Coeli eee Strahov Strahovska Madona Strahovska Madona POFIS St Nicholas Postal Card Velehrad Articles Indexed Vy i Brod Cistercian Monastery vyssi Brod Cistercian Monastery Copies of The Specialist Abolition of Seridom s66 also Slovakia Peasant R
20. w far into the index you were at the moment But for this search using the browser s search dialog will get you to the desired point in the index with just a few keystrokes Most browsers permit leaving open its search dialog for the next search In addition browsers often have advanced search capability that enables search refinement In the edition of the index available as write found six articles about revenue stamps under that heading Frequently entries of interest may found as subtopics of a main heading such as Bohemia and Moravia Newspaper Stamps But you should resist the impulse to hunt willy nilly for subtopics and employ the more efficient method that clicking on the Entire Index button provides a topic covered on the following page Page 9 The Entire Index Page CZECHOSLOVAK SIMCHA SC Entire Author Subject l Index Page All Author Subject Listings Abbeys and Monasteries B evnov Brevnov Scott Czech Republic 2883 POFIS esk Republica 7 New issues Czech Republic Gerald M van Zanten Sep Oct 1993 p 16 Other Index Paces Author Subject New issues Czech Republic Gerald M van Zanten Sep Oct 2008 p 29 Hronsk Befiadik Hronsky Benadik Scott Slovakia 521 POFIS Slovenska R 399 POFIS New issues Slovakia Gerald M van Zanten Sep Oct 2007 p 37 Articles Indexed Jasov Scott Slovakia 521 POFIS Slovensk R 399 _ New issues Slovakia Gerald M van Zanten Sep Oct 2007
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