The Explore section provides ways to interactively explore the diaries and travel journal. Here, you have three options for exploration. The Joseph Mathia Svoboda diaries can be explored through the Diary Viewer and Event Timeline. You can also interact with the Alexander Svoboda travel journal through the Travel Journal Viewer.
Diary Viewer
The Diary Viewer enables you to view images from the Joseph Mathia Svoboda diaries along with their transcriptions, side-by-side. This is recommended for those who want to look at the diaries and their contents in detail. Transcriptions in the Diary Viewer are tagged with short descriptions of individuals Joseph mentions. View
You can also download the transcriptions and view on your own. Download
Events Timeline
The timeline affords a glimpse of different events, big and small, from the Joseph Mathia Svoboda diaries. This is recommended for those who want an overview of the diaries and to gain perspective on when these events took place. View
Image Gallery
The image gallery displays pictures from the time period and setting of the Joseph Mathia Svoboda diaries. This is recommended for those who want to understand the diaries and their surrounding context visually. View
Travel Journal Viewer
The Travel Journal Viewer allows you to view the transcriptions from Alexander Svoboda’s travel journal in Arabic, along with the English translation for the journal, side-by-side. View
Persons Index
The Persons Index displays short biographical information for commonly occurring people in the diaries. Check it out to become more familiar with the people Joseph mentions and interacts with. This information is also included as tags in the Diary Viewer. View