Photo Library. Help Guide

Photo Libr ar y Help Guide

SUMMARY

1. WHO Photo Library Intranet: login 1

2. Search 2

1/ Quick search 2

2/ Advanced search 2

3/ Highlights 2

3. Tips for the research 3

4. Results display 4

1/ Display modes 4

2/ Display views 5

3/ Sort by 5

5. Basket management (selection of images) 6

1/ To create your basket 6

2/ To retrieve and to manage your basket 7

3/ To add pictures to your basket 7

4/ To remove pictures from the basket / to remove basket / to rename basket 8

5/ To download or to print selected images 8

1. WHO Photo Library Intranet: login

You can access this web site if your are a WHO staff.

Please enter your Synergy account, login and password to the homepage.

http: //intranet.who.int/tools/photolibrary/

You can browse, select or download pictures.

IMPORTANT: to go back to the welcome page of the Photo Library, click on the WHO logo: the back button of your browser doesn’t work !

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2. ^Search

Three search modes are available on the site:

1/ Quick search

This is the equivalent of a full text search. Enter a term in the search box, and the system will browse all the fields where you entry term appears.

2/ Advanced search

The advanced search allows you to search for photos which meet several criteria.

If you click on the down arrow to the right of each field, you will see a list of terms which can be used for searching.

3/ Search through Highlights

The Highlights provide another way of viewing images using selected criteria.

By clicking on the crosses located next to a topic, you will reveal a list of sub-topics.

3. Tips for the research

Boolean search

It is possible to refine or to broaden your search, using operators such as AND, OR and NOT. If you type several words with no operators, the search considers that the operator is AND by default.

Ex:

• “hospital patient”: will display a photo of a patient in a hospital.

• “hospital OR patient”: will display all photos of hospitals, and all photos with patients.

• “hospital NOT patient”: will display photos of hospitals without patients.

Wildcard search

This sign * is the wildcard character. It replaces any sign and any number of signs as well. It can be helpful when you are not sure of the spelling of a term.

Ex:

- *lderly (beginning of the keyword) - dis*se (middle of the keyword)

- handwash* (at the end of the keyword)

Exact phrases

You can search exact phrases by using “ ” (quotation marks).

Ex: “blood sample”

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4. Results display

When you process a search, the number of photos found appears above the display frame and to the right of the search window. To go from one result page to another, you can either use the navigation buttons (arrows) or the scroll bar at the far right of the page.

Ex. For “poverty area” :

1/ Display modes

The results of your search will be displayed either in the thumbnail or in the list mode

Thumbnails mode By default, the results are displayed in the thumbnail mode

Large view

To see a big zoom of the photo

List mode

All the thumbnails’

results are showed

with the metadata listed,

and the different

You can change the display mode at any time without losing your search.

In whichever mode you use, the navigation buttons will remain visible.

2/ Display views

Each selected photo can be displayed in two ways:

3/ Sort by

You can choose the way images are sorted. Select from the scrolling menu “Sort by”

Details view

By default, the results are displayed in the thumbnail mode

Zoom view

You see an enlarged view of your selected picture

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5. Basket management (selection of images)

To select and keep your photo search results, use the “Add to basket” option.

1/ To create your basket

In the thumbnail or details modes, select the pictures you wish to include

in the basket, by ticking the box under each thumbnail image.

2/ To retrieve and to manage your basket

To retrieve

To retrieve the contents of your basket, go to “Your account”

on the top right side of the page.

There, you can see and manage all your saved baskets.

3/ To add pictures to your basket

If you wish to add pictures to an already existing basket, just follow the basket creation procedure. A pop-up window will ask you to select an existing basket or create a new one. Select the name of the appropriate basket and click on “save”.

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To display a basket

To display an existing basket, go to “Your account” and

click on either the basket thumbnail or the basket title.

Images will appear in the same order as they

were added to the basket.

5/ To download or to print selected images Once you have displayed your basket

just click on

the box below the thumbnails

and on “Download photos” or on “Print” at the bottom of the page.

Finally, click either on “Download photos” or “Print” at the bottom of the page.

Don’t forget to choose the resolution you need. To do this, please scroll down and select the option you want. Then, click on “Download photos”, found at

4/ To remove pictures from the basket / to remove basket / to rename basket If you wish to remove pictures from a basket, click on “Your account”.

To the right side of the basket, click on the “+” sign.

A pop-up window called basket management, will open.

From there, you can delete the pictures you don’t need any more, by clicking on the cross below the thumbnails.

To remove all the pictures of your basket at once, click on “Empty basket”.

Delete your basket, clicking on “Delete basket” .