Digital Victorian Poetry Project

I now have scaled counts of sonic devices per line, generated as spreadsheets. 180 minutes. Read More

I have to finish implementing the tests, but I've done 17 so far and they're all passing. 120 minutes. Read More

This is the emergency info for the Digital Victorian Periodical Project. Site repository: hcmc.uvic.ca/svn/dvpp. This contains all the XML and programming code. Online database: this AdaptiveDB database contains metadata only, and should be phased out… Read More

Made substantial progress on the Porter2 stemmer in XSLT; I've done the first few steps (which I think are the trickiest), and all tests are passing so far. Looking at the algorithm, though, I think it's going to be way slower than the original one.… Read More

Today I prepped and ran the changes required to replace the old echo figures taxonomy with the new sonic devices taxonomy. I also set up a new interface which enables any encoder to refresh the metadata in their XML file from the most recent repo copy… Read More

There is now a Hashtags table in the database, where you can define new hashtags and edit existing ones. Each hashtag record has a hashtag, a gloss (short explanation) and a description (long explanation). I've populated these based on my understanding… Read More

Weekly meeting, with the following outcomes: Our new taxonomy for sonic devices will be sdRefrain (the generic), sdAnaphora, sdEpistrophe, sdInRhyme, and sdVariant (the last is a combinator). Building a good search is my current #1 priority. At the… Read More

This is a requirement for the JSON search engine, which has now become the main priority for the website. I'm implementing Porter2 as described here, with some guidance from the JS implementation by Kristopolous, although I'm already finding that XSLT… Read More

Did a lot more bugfixing, and tested with the newly-ready Cornhill 1860; I think the script is now robust. Also we did an intro-to-XPath workshop at this morning's meeting. 180 minutes. Read More

Found some bugs in my sql-to-tei code, specifically in the script which writes scripts to add and move XML files following the merge of data. I've now fixed and tested the code and it seems to be OK; the fallout took a couple of hours to fix, though,… Read More

Added two new fields, being a VIAF id field which turns into a link to the VIAF record, and a hashtag field for the persons table. The latter required a rewrite of the diagnostics, and some testing. 120 minutes. Read More

Our weekly meeting analysed and discussed some interesting edge case linked poems. I have new TODOs from the meeting. 150 minutes. Read More

We discovered some broken images on the file server; it turned out they were TIFFs, but named *.jpg. I wrote this quick script to check all the images on the server. It found 44, which we'll replace when we have the chance. #!/bin/bash echo "Checking… Read More

The Jenkins build broke because some of the new files being processed have keywords in them that trigger the build failure. Fixed this by editing the log parse rules. 20 minutes. Read More