Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies

Meeting to discuss the journal

mholmes — 2010-01-20T20:54:43Z

Mins: 70

Met with MTA to discuss bringing the journal to UVic. We discussed likely scenarios for document generation and publication (initially probably a hybrid between XML and OJS), open access, print copies, rolling publication, and a lot of other things. MTA will talk to a few more people before we meet again.

Added a quick placeholder site for CJBS

mholmes — 2009-11-13T22:07:31Z

Mins: 30

MTA has been distributing our promo flyer, but it turns out that the URL on it was never turned into anything because the old site data was never recovered. Created a quick placeholder page, which we can point at the full journal site next year when it's close to running.

Finished the CJBS flyer

mholmes — 2009-05-06T18:07:13Z

Mins: 120

Finished the PDF of the flyer for the congress, and sent it to the board members. It's given me a set of logo graphics and a colour that I can use for the website too.

Board meeting

mholmes — 2009-04-16T22:00:13Z

Lengthy and fruitful "meeting" (Skype conference) with the journal board. These are my action items (which I'm adding as a task, to make sure they get done).

Research a suitable available domain name for the journal.
Talk to MB about the possibilities of getting a SSHRC grant to support the journal; in particular, figure out application deadlines, and the type of application we need to make, and look at one previous (failed) application, to see if we can figure out why it failed.
Create a flyer for the Congress at the end of May. This should be printable on a regular printer using 8 x 11 paper, and be simple to fold. It'll be a bit like the flyer we've just done for the Scandinavian Canadian Studies journal. I'll do it in colour, but make sure it prints OK in monochrome as well, just in case. This needs to go to AS ahead of the Congress at the end of May.

Started the next text

mholmes — 2009-04-16T21:57:08Z

Mins: 60

Started on the Magee text. This has some unusual biblio items, so I'll have to implement some new categories to handle them (once I figure out what they actually are!)

Marked up the first half of the third text

mholmes — 2009-03-26T17:47:06Z

Mins: 120

Markup is going steadily, but there are many small inconsistencies in style that are emerging; we can create a more detailed explanation of the house style, based on choices from Chicago's many options, as we go through this process, and apply it to the next volume. In this volume I'll just mark up what's there, and correct actual errors (misspellings etc.), rather than normalize all the variety.

Marked up bibliography of third CJBS doc

mholmes — 2009-03-25T18:39:08Z

Mins: 120

Marked up the biblio of the Dalvi article; only 17 entries, but most were missing key info (such as pubPlace), so there was research to do, and they're pretty obscure (many not in WorldCat).

Marked up the second shortest text...

mholmes — 2009-03-13T16:03:07Z

Mins: 30

...which is a book review, the first for the teiJournal structure. I'm documenting anything related to teiJournal coding in that blog directly.

Finished marking up the first text

mholmes — 2009-03-12T17:04:57Z

Mins: 60

Things to note: copy/paste from the PDF causes the loss of some characters with diacritics, whereas copy/paste from the Word file preserves them; however, the Word file may be unedited, so the PDF must be the primary source, with the Word file as the fallback for accented characters.

Biblio considerations

mholmes — 2009-03-12T15:37:57Z

CJBS uses the Chicago styleguide (14th edition); I have the 15th, but I think it'll be close enough. They use the endnote reference style whereby a quotation or reference in the text has an endnote number, and in the endnote, the full bibliographical citation is used, followed by the page number. The Chicago examples separate the page number from the rest of the biblio item with either a colon or a comma, but CJBS (in this article at least) uses a period.

I'll need a new strategy for linking the endnote to the bibliographical item, and it will take a little thought; since some endnotes will be regular endnotes, presumably, we need to handle this through a regular element, but the content of the note will have to be pulled from the bibliographical item () at the end; and the bibliography itself will have to be ignored when rendering, as its contents will already be listed in the endnotes.

Another option is slightly more radical: perhaps we could include the directly in the contents of the ? That would certainly be simpler, and would still leave bibliographical references available for harvesting.

For the moment, I'm pursuing this policy: I'm marking up the biblio items in the usual way, in the element, and where the note number appears in the text, I'm doing this:< note corresp="[id_of_biblStruct]">. That seems simple and easy to code from an XSLT standpoint.