Depts

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.

Board telco this morning, followed by a review of the current state of the white paper.

Fixed some persistent broken links on the History site.

Meeting with MT, and further progress:

• Since Snowball is part of Lucene 3.6, it's there by default in eXist 2.0.
• I've now finished 6 XSLT tranforms to build simple view of the data for searching.
• I've written a bash script to generate all the searchable versions.
• I've generated them all and uploaded them into eXist on Plum.
• I've given MT access to Plum's Tomcat and eXist so he can work on XQuery and indexing.

Next task for me: work on a TEI version of one of the modern cast lists, as an example encoding, and also create XSLT to generate from it the XHTML version that is currently displayed.

Added a video on RL's instructions.

Met with SM re French reading course which will be going online, and medieval manuscript digitization project.

Discussed generating metadata from Scalar as RDF for transformation to CSV for insertion into ContentDM; transformation of TEI transcriptions into XHTML and customization of stylesheets; possibility of building an eXist web application; and linking between web version of transcriptions and TIFFs in ContentDM.

JSR and I had each submitted a couple of test proposals, but couldn't find where in the GUI one goes to see the listing of proposals. Turns out that the user must be a member of the "Director" role to get that ability. Being a conference manager does not give you the privilege and being a manager does not automatically give you all the privileges of a director, or author for that matter. The various roles are autonomous and not hierarchical, so a given user must be manually added to each role to have full capabilities. Took a bit of experimenting to discover that - I didn't notice in the online help about submission management capabilities that they are available only to directors and not conference managers.

Dept wanted a URL that was associated with the dept site and simpler than the actual conference url on the conferences site
(http://conferences.uvic.ca/index.php/WCPA/wcpa2012)

so I created a simple setup in
http://web.uvic.ca/philosophy/wcpa
to redirect to the conference site

I put in an index.htm file with a redirect.
I also created a .htaccess file to catch any other URLs within that folder and redirect them to the home page on the conference site

ErrorDocument 404 http://conferences.uvic.ca/index.php/WCPA/wcpa2012

There is about a half-second lag while the redirect occurs, but I don't think that is long enough to bother your users.