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Checked out the vihistory svn repository at https://revision.tapor.uvic.ca/svn/hcmc/vihistory into a directory on my mac
Copied the files down from the production site (taprhist/vihdev). Next I need to compare the two to make sure that the repository and production site are in sync.

Once that's done, then I can start work on implementing the captcha code from the annotations page into other forms, name the searchcensus one.

Also, the production site has .svn folders in it, which might be the result of using an svn client on that set of folders, or may just be an artefact of ftping files up to the server from another location that was in svn.

Hours creeping up again...

We're now going to be transcribing and checking against the 1914 edition, not the 1899, although most of our 1899 transcriptions will still be useful.

Gave a brief run-through of image linking and uploading to the VPN team; since the image location etc. has changed, I have to rework the original documentation asap (on schedule for Monday). Also discovered that users were not able to log into tapor boxes, so got sysadmin to add them as users (they were already correctly in the vicpoems group). Must test logons early next week, somehow.

Authentication through LDAP stopped working for all our PHP sites, so after RE figured out the problem (pointing at the wrong LDAP server in Mustard) we had to make changes to all the .htaccess files.

I was wondering about xml:id='corinth' and xml:id='ephyra'. In Apollodorus 1.9.3 'event_152' (Sisyphus founds Corinth) occurs. However, in the text it says:

"And Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, founded Ephyra, which is now called Corinth".

The places' descriptions and geographical locations are different. Their latitude and longitude are different, but aren't they the same place?
Also in citations; 'ephyra' is only cited at Apollodorus 2.7.6, when it clearly is mentioned at Apollodorus 1.9.3 as being founded by 'sisyphus'.
I looked up 'ephyra' in the whole text and it does get mentioned again separately, as does 'corinth'; so what must be done?

Documenting and tidying up after Mallarmé project decisions today, and then figuring out and fixing a problem on teiJenkins. Also waiting to make sure that TEIP5 build ran OK on teiJenkins.

I encountered this bug on teiJenkins, and after reading around a bit, followed the advice there to work around it:

sudo mv /etc/init/ureadahead.conf /etc/init/ureadahead.conf.disable
sudo shutdown -r now

It seemed to solve the problem. We should do df -h every now and then to check for a recurrence.

After much back-and-forth and comparison of editions, the following decisions were made:

• The initial phase is to transcribe only the 1899 versions of the shorter poems.
• The Pléiade edition will be the ultimate source against which everything is checked.
• Capitalization and punctuation will be followed precisely.
• Italicization and indenting will be marked up.
• Still waiting for a decision on line-wraps.
• PS and AA have now completed initial transcription and checking and have created text files.
• I will next generate the XML files afresh, and manually add encoding for styles etc.
• XML file creation will include detailed metadata about the source text (I need to add this to my XSLT).
• Then PS and AA will continue with the generation of readings.
• Meanwhile, EDR will come up with a list of other poems that need to be added, including other versions of some of the poems we already have, where the variance is interesting. These will be created and marked up in the same way.

Spent a lot of time on this today, including enhancing my script a bit.

EndNote doesn't do a great job when it comes to exporting XML, but I think I have a plan for processing what it *does* provide.

In EndNote Preferences > Reference Types > Modify Reference Types... there is a table that shows how each reference type maps field names to data. For example, for "Journal Article" we get the same fields down the left hand side but the right hand side contains the specific mappings for those field names. E.g.
While Journal Article uses the "Secondary Title" field to store the Journal title, the Book Section ref type maps it to Book title.
Books have Secondary Author mapped to Series Editor, but Book Sections have Secondary Author mapped to Editor.

So, it might take a while to create an intelligent set up in xslt to handle this, but it can be done bit-by-bit. In the four libraries I have so far there are only 3 different reference types: journal article, book and book section. I don't imagine that list will grow too long...