FrancoToile

Update from ES on May 15, 2013

(Mins: 240)

1. ES corrected location coordinates for cltf6, aacf3, fraf8
2. ES added transcripts (non annotated) for fraq 7, fraq8, fraq9

added thumbnails

(Mins: 90)

ES added about ten new videos and XML data files, so I had to create a thumbnail image for each. I ran each file in the player.xql file, stopped the video, captured a bit of the screen to a png file, edited that to 88x66 px (size that all of them seem to be) added them to the SVN repository, uploaded them to the production site and the copy of the site on my Mac.

While doing that, I noticed extraneous thumbnail files in the images (as opposed to the images/thumbnails) folder, so deleted those from the servers and from the repository.

change pointers from pear and lettuce to tomcat-devel and hcmc

(Mins: 120)

ES noted that recent changes she'd made weren't appearing on the production site at francotoile.uvic.ca.
I had a connection in the exist admin client that used pear.hcmc.uvic.ca as the domain. I thought that would be dead, but when the connection succeeded, I assumed that domain name was forwarding to the current instance. Wrong. Obviously there is another instance somewhere on "pear" that is still running.

Created a new connection in the admin client using tomcat-devel.hcmc.uvic.ca as the domain and that worked. Also, the webapp in the new instance is francotoile and not francotoile21 as it was in the old instance.

In poking through the files, also noticed a connection string using lettuce.uvic.ca, so changed that to hcmc.uvic.ca and it seems to be working.

Updated the lastpass records.

Update from ES on May 8, 2013

(Mins: 240)

1. ES added transcripts for fraq10, fraf6
2. ES has edited Liette's video, and given it to SA. Corresponding xml file has also been added.
3. ES asked SA to upload all new addition to the production site in order to see if edition with Audacity works fine.

Update from ES on May 1, 2013

(Mins: 290)

1. SA found a solution with regards to cutting the soundtrack at the millisecond : Use Audacity! The program was installed on POMME.
2. ES entered & committed the transcripts for cltq3, fraq11, fraq12, fraq13

Update from ES on Apr. 24, 2013

(Mins: 180)

Back after a wee while!!

1. Links to video files were sent to Essen for his review before publishing them on the site.
2. SA and ES discussed the need of finding an editing software that allows cutting at the millisecond or hundredth of a second. ES suggested "Video Edit Master" which seems to be a free software. Ongoing.
3. Files in "media folder" POMME have been updated with the latest information existing on the server.
4. New xml files entered for pscf5, accf3, cltf6, fraf8
5. Transcript for cltq3 is done in txt format. Needs to be entered into xml file.

Update from ES on Oct. 30 2012

(Mins: 10)

Last session on Francotoile (end of contract) - ES will continue to work on various aspects of the site on an irregular basis from now on.

Still to be done:
1) add the missing thumbnails to the following files on the website: fraf4, fraf5, fraf6, fraq7, fraq8, fraq9, fraq10, fraq11, fraq12, fraq13, ctlq2, cltq3, accq1, eduq1, edubc1
2) obtain the filter for the search function (transcript only or transcript+annotations). Once this is sorted, ES will prepare the three help files to go on the "info" page of the site.
3) annotations are to be added on the following transcripts: accf2, franb1, franb2, franb3, fraq3, fraq4, fraq5, fraq5, fraq6, pscf4, accq1, cltq2, cltq3, edbc1, eduq1 , fraf4, fraf5
4) annotated transcripts are to be added for the following files: fraf6, fraq7, fraq8, fraq9, fraq10, fraq11, fraq12, fraq13
5) The information displaying on the "info" page of the Francotoile should be updated (i.e. the help files and the RA names)
6) ES got a reply from another young lady from interested in being filmed for the project. She is in Québec currently and will get in touch when she return, early November. Still waiting for a response from a Quebecois writer.
7) At revision 218. Latest changes committed should be uploaded to the site.

Update from ES on Oct. 16, 2012

(Mins: 5)

1. Fifteen new and converted videos, shot in August and September 2012, were given to SA and added to the site.
2. ES created an xml file (no transcript) for each of them: accq1, cltq2, cltq3, edubc1, eduq1, fraf4, fraf5, fraf6, fraq7-13.
3. The following were reported and solved:
- the non-annotated transcripts for franb1 and franb2 were not displaying on the website (solved)
- the thumbnail for frac1 was missing (solved)
- the location for mixbc1 was indicating Québec instead of BC (solved)
- the latitude and longitude for fraf2 and eduf1 were those of France instead of Switzerland (solved)
4. At this stage, all videos have a corresponding xml file and should display on the website:
5. The following videos have a non-annotated transcript: accf2, franb1, franb2, franb3, fraq3, fraq4, fraq5, fraq6, pscf4
6. ES has prepared to help videos to get inserted on the Intro page of Francotoile. Checked how the video player was working with SA in order to prepare the last Help video. However there are some URL issues with the bookmarks and search functions. SA will look into this.
7. ES will send an email to Gary, Emilie and France to inform them that their video has been uploaded to the site.

Remaining hours on this contract: 7 hours 30

modify definition for francotoile.uvic.ca domain name

(Mins: 360)

Old instance of francotoile was running Exist 1.5 and the structure required an odd "extra" instance of "francotoile/" in the URL to work properly.
New instance of francotoile runs in Exist 2.1 and has been restructured to not require the extra "francotoile/" in the URL.
Had sys-admins create a definition for francotest.uvic.ca and point it at the new instance and tested that. Then got them to use that same definition for francotoile.uvic.ca. Then they got rid of the definition for francotest.uvic.ca.
I still have to shut down the web-app of the old instance, as it's just wasting resources on the exist server now. I'll do that when Greg returns - likely we'll shut that instance down, get rid of all the files and archive them somewhere.

production instance running old version of eXist, so I won't update site

(Mins: 30) Just realized that the production instance of FrancoToile is running eXist 1.5. The dev instance is running eXist 2.x and there were some headaches in migrating from an earlier dev instance running 1.4, so I'm not going to risk updating the production instance with the site files from the dev instance until I've updated the exist running on the production environment. That will have to wait until I return in September.