Across the collection, there were a number of instances of metadata inconsistency (such as "Anon." vs "anonymous" vs "Anonyme" for anonymous authors). I've now standardized all of these, along with some of the names of engravers. Still waiting for a decision on "LePautre" or "Le Pautre".
Category: "Activity log"
June 4, 2008
Added UN and UNE to the TitleSortComparator.jar file code, so that titles beginning with indefinite articles in French are sorted based on the subsequent word rather than the article. This involved using Eclipse again, which I haven't done for a while, then building the JAR (File / Export!), then uploading it into the Lettuce Cocoon setup, and restarting Cocoon.
June 3, 2008
Put together a preliminary outline for our presentation, based on the proposal, and sent it to CC for comments.
Found a couple of bugs relating to the return of results based on searching with no search text (just based on the search filters), which were generating XSLT errors; those then mapped to "no results" rather than a useful error message, so it was difficult to see what was actually happening behind the scenes.
These are things we've noticed over the last couple of weeks, working with the Web site, which are now fixed:
- When searching with "phrase exacte", image thumbnails did not show up. This was because of a small bug in the processing of hits found this way (using
contains()instead of&=). - When annotations have no content, just a
<head>tag (i.e. an annotation title), there's no need for an empty content box to show up on the Web rendering of the image. The XSLT now traps for this condition, and doesn't generate the empty box. - Search results now show the dates of documents, if they have dates.
- Dates appear in the mouseover tooltips in the image gallery, following the title of the engraving.
- Dates appear after the titles in the browser caption bar (HTML
<title>element). - Dates appear in the titles of the teasers on the index pages.
June 2, 2008
The distribution of clefs is more skewed than even the bâtons:
- 7 keys, or bunches of keys, are in the possession of women.
- In two cases, a woman is using a bunch of keys as a weapon to attack a man.
- A key appears in the possession of a man only once, in Le Mari Impuissant. It's not clear what this key is for.
The distribution of balais is: five are in the hands of women, and three in the hands of men. In two of the latter cases, the man is in a submissive position with regard to his wife; the third instance is one of the complex collage-style images depicting a "Homme de mesnage" with a face created entirely of objects. However, of the five balais in the hands of women, three are being used as weapons in attacks on men.
I've done some counting of how and where bâtons appear:
- Total bâtons: 18
- Bâtons in the possession of men: 6
- Of those 6, 3 are actively being used on women.
- Bâtons in the possession of women: 12
- Of those 12, 7 are actively being used on men.
In other words, this weapon is shown in the possession of women, and being wielded as a weapon by women, twice as frequently as it's shown in male hands.
Finished marking up objects, creatures and people in the last few images. Most of these were simpler images with fewer features. I've put the results into the database, and now I'll start doing some investigation of what we've learned, starting with objects.
May 30, 2008
Ran this quick piece of XQuery against the DT to find out what values we have for Annotation Titles in the Objets category:
declare default element namespace "http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"; let $annList := //div[@type='imtAnnotation'], $shortlist := ( for $d in $annList let $facs := $d/@facs where $d/ancestor::TEI/descendant::zone[@xml:id = $facs]/@rendition = 'Objets' return $d ) for $h in distinct-values($shortlist//head) order by $h return $h
These are the results (43 distinct values):
- Balai
- Balai comme arme
- Bateau
- Brouette
- Bâton
- Clefs
- Clefs comme arme
- Clefs de la femme au premier plan, à droit
- Coffre à cosmétiques
- Couteau
- Crochets
- Cruches
- Enclume
- Enseigne du Lustucru
- Faux
- Fouet
- Fourche
- Fourchette
- Fourneau
- Hache
- La Lune
- La chaise
- Lime
- Marteau
- Marteau comme arme
- Pelle comme arme
- Pichet
- Pichet renversé
- Pot de chambre
- Quenouille
- Quilles?
- Seau
- Soufflet
- Souliers de la femme
- Tenaille
- Tête coupée
- Tête coupée de Lustucru
- Tête de Méduse
- Tête sur laquelle on opère
- Têtes coupées
- Têtes pendues
- Vaisseau en feu
- Vaisseaux en feu
There's obviously room for a bit more standardization here, but this is already useful.