Depts

...on instructions from JS-R.

...on RL's instructions.

Working with TG to pilot the use of new-style boxes from the 2012 template, faked up in the local site CSS, for some attention-grabbing stuff. Coming along nicely.

Regular Skype meeting.

For calendar year 2012, I estimated about 150 to 180 hours (going through blog posts and email archives). After talking with Martin upon his return, I can tighten that estimate to between 170 and 180 hours. For first quarter of calendar years 2013, I estimated about 30 to 40 hours. Again after talking with Martin, I can narrow that to between 36 and 40 hours.

Added a video on RL's instructions.

Possibly a project coming to update HotPot to HTML5 and small-device support; and some blue-sky thinking for a bigger idea.

On RL's instructions.

On RL's instructions.

Met with JL and Jim Kempling to discuss A City Goes to War project. They have obtained almost $100K.
They want a WordPress site based on the Victoria's Victoria model. A framework into which student projects will be integrated. So issue #1 is how to migrate student projects from a dev instance(s) of WP to the production instance.
They want to have a centralized searchable repository of photos with metadata and images of documents with metadata.
They want to have a database of military records (attestation papers, which includes sections: Questions put, Declaration by Man, Oath taken by Man, Certificate of magistrate, Description on Enlistment, Certificate of Medical Examination, Certificate of Officer) which is searchable/filterable by various criteria (to be provided by JK).
Data structure ideally is interoperable with the Canadian Great War Project.
Ideally the search interface will search both the db of military records and the metadata of the repository of images, if possible.