Mariage

These are the basic instructions for wildcard searching in the Mariage Recherche page. They need to be translated into French.

When searching for individual words (n'importe quel mot, tous ces mots), you can use wildcards in your search. ? (a question mark) matches zero or one character, and * (an asterisk) matches zero or more characters. Thus "mar?" would match both "mari" and "mary", while "mar*" would match "mari", "mary", "marié" and "mariée". You can't use wildcard searches in the "phrase exact" search, because it is searching for an exact phrase.

Cleaned up and cropped the two new images for which we have metadata; tweaked the IMT files; created the thumbnails in PhotoShop; created the 800px versions; and then uploaded the resulting files to the working folder on the SAN, and the image files to various locations in the site structure. We're now ready for Helena to start marking up those images.

Met with Claire, France and Helena to arrange time on computers, plans for the work, etc. I have one task out of this: I need to write a simple description of the wildcard functionality in the search, for translation into French and inclusion on the Recherche page.

CC sent metadata for two of the new files, so I updated the IMT XML files and passed the images on to Greg for cleaning up. When that's done, and he's created thumbnails, I'll move the XML files and the new images into the active folder, then create the Web View graphic using IMT, and post them on the server account for France to work on.

The new batch of scans (39) will need to be marked up, and the first stage is creating IMT files for each of them. That's done; each one is waiting for further metadata from CC before it can go into the pipeline for the markup process.

Two CDs of new images arrived from the BN. Copied them to my HD so they'll get backed up, and renamed two files which have parentheses in them. Went through the images -- two seem like mistakes, but the others are fine, and look better than the last batch. Discussed how we'll get them started; Greg or I will go through and clean up the backgrounds, then we'll generate the thumbnails; meanwhile, Claire will supply titles. After that, I'll set up the IMT files for each image, with a title, and generate the wv_ 800px files for the website using the IMT. After that, I'll put all the images and files on the server where France can find them, and she can start marking up the text areas on the images.

Five unfinished documents have been removed from the DB so they don't show up on the site. I've also moved them out of my xml\texts folder, and put them into xml\unfinished, so future updates don't upload them again by mistake.

Wrote the XSLT for testing whether there's a truncated title available or not, and using it; if there isn't, the original truncation algorithm still runs on the main title. The code occurs in two places, once for the doc list and once for the thumbnail image that pops up when you click on the title; each could be handled differently if necessary.

Added some detailed licensing info to the Welcome page, pointing at the Creative Commons licence, and also added attribution to the BN at the bottom of every image (by adding it into the XSLT that generates the image pages).

Claire will send me shortened versions of titles where required, with normalized case (probably sentence case), and I'll add a new title element in the header, inside the <biblStruct> element used for indexing in the TOC, like this:

<title type="trunc">Arrest contre les chastrez</title>

The TOC XSLT will then look for that element, and use it if it's there; failing that, it will use the main title.

Met with Claire to discuss the site. She'll send over some text about the licence terms (it's a Creative Commons one, as we've discussed before), as well as something to act as a disclaimer on the site, noting that it's a long way from finished and some texts are incomplete.