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Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@SUN8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: "Elizabeth L. Brown" <ebro@LOC.GOV>
Subject: (Tildes ~ ) (in reply to "graphics software")
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Sylvia (and others with this issue),
The tildes (looks like this: ~ ) appear in the temporary URLs that you get when you execute keyword searches for American Memory items. They also appear at the item level when you have selected an index term that results in more than one hit (which to the system is also a keyword search). In the context of American Memory, the character has nothing to do with home directories, but is something that the search software uses.
Tildes do not appear when you pick items from the title lists or from other links to specific items, such as links on collection home pages or from many special presentations, Today in History, or Learning page lists. Many index list entries result in single-item results--you won't have a problem here, either. Where index or other special links result in a list of entries, you will see tildes in the item-level temporary addresses.
If your students want to identify items at home and then download them at school, they should come to school armed with addresses derived using the technique here: <http://memory.loc.gov/learn/resources/tech/link.html>. As you may recall, addresses derived with this technique, do not have "temp" (or tildes) in them.
As far as "home" directories... if you are referring to addresses that end with a domain name (i.e. "loc.gov"), forward slash (/) or that do not end with "htm", "html", or other "...ml" variations, you may usually successfully add "index.html" to the end of the address. For example American Memory home page can be addressed as:
http://memory.loc.gov
OR http://memory.loc.gov/
OR http://memory.loc.gov/index.html
Is there a way to have your filter set to allow anything from the "loc.gov" domain, regardless of this "tilde rule"? That would seem like an easy solution, if allowed by the software.
Betty
At 10:43 PM 5/1/01 -0400, you wrote:
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>Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@SUN8.LOC.GOV>
>Poster: Sylvia Davis Ready <Sylviaready@AOL.COM>
>Subject: Re: graphics software
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>Judith,
> Our biggest problem, still, at AshevilleHigh, is the filter not allowing
>home directories. If there is any way that the tilde could be taken out of
>AM's URL addresses, it would help a great deal. The videos don't seem to
>have the home directory address, but many of the photos do. Students can
>download at home, but most of them prefer to do so at school if they are
>creating a power point presentation with Microsoft Office. The pictures tend
>to make the program larger than the space on a floppy disk. Most students
>find their pictures on the Net and then pop them into their presentations
>right away. Sound and video still take more time than they usually have at
>school, so they are looking for photos mainly. Sometimes, they make
>newspapers, using Publisher. Take care. Sylvia Ready
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