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Isolation log week 97

Work done from home and in the office 2022-03-07 to 2022-03-11

Total: 37.50 hours
G&T: + 2.50 hours

Monday 2022-03-07

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: Meeting with HBS and SB to start planning and constructing the ATOP repo.
1.00 hours: BCHT: Meeting with SA and PR, and initial work on transforming the spreadsheet.
0.50 hours: MyNDIR: Meeting with PAB and fixes for a couple of things; plans for better citation format.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Fix for documentation build bug, which plagued us before. Need to work around this carefully when there's time.
0.25 hours: Discussion with GN re BreezeMap timeline trigger options.
0.25 hours: Maint: Testing of VPN config and discussion of Endpoint Defender with sysadmin.
3.00 hours: hcmcJournal: Initial work on listings pages and construction of various maps for convenient rendering; decision on how to segregate public and private posts after discussion with GN: build two distinct sites.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2022-03-08

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Two rounds, including kernel updates.
1.00 hours: Maint: Discussions with CL re MSEPD, and building of a test VM to try the install procedure recommended.
1.50 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
2.50 hours: hcmcJournal: Following discussion at meeting, rewrote the build process to create two entirely separate sites for private and public, integrated staticSearch into both, set up generation of all listings pages, and got everything basically working.
0.75 hours: Endings: Publicized NT's Lansdowne lecture, and did a full update on the Endings site itself to cover changes since last September.
1.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Work on ticket covering JS source map; created branch and got things tested and working, ready for a pull request if JT is good with it. Also discussed possible Balisage paper with JT.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2022-03-09

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Finishing setup of vm for testing MSDE, running of five of nine planned tests.
2.00 hours: VIHistory: Beginning formal plan for mapping all census data fields to TEI elements.
[Out for an appointment after lunch, then worked from home.]
0.25 hours: MoEML: Project meeting.
3.00 hours: HCMC Journal: Styled things a bit more readably with a Google font, updated and fixed staticSearch config and set it to use rev number as versionFile, got hit highlighting working, made author names into links, and much other progress.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2022-03-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
3.00 hours: hcmcJournal: Added more test posts; implemented RSS feed for announcements; fixed a bunch of minor annoyances; wrote deploy target and tested.
2.00 hours: Maint: Much more testing of MSDE on vm, and reporting on Teams to CL; discussions with HCMC team on implications.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Troubleshooting svn conflict with NV.
1.00 hours: DVPP/ENGL: Prep for English 500 class, and meeting with JJ to test.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Discussions of paper with JT; pull request and merge for JS source map.

Total: 7.75 hours

Friday 2022-03-11

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI Council meeting re Stylesheets WG charge.
2.75 hours: HCMC Journal: Finished first iteration, with footer and time-tracking working.
2.50 hours: VIHistory: Discussions with GN about XML/XHTML format for data (decided on custom XML schema w/built-in processing-model annotations); began building a test file containing content covering all input types; Q & A by email with PD.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Repurposing and extension of bibliography for previous paper to get us started with Balisage paper.

Total: 7.75 hours

Isolation log week 96

Work done from home and in the office 2022-02-28 to 2022-003-04

Total: 36.75 hours
G&T hours: + 1.75

Monday 2022-02-28

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Spent some time checking that updates on one server were indeed done automatically, and not lagging behind.
1.50 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB and NC to work on ODD processing project.
5.00 hours: DVPP: Many fixes and changes to site organization and style per AC; revised encoding of several poems while adding more documentation for the new encoding methods.

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2022-03-01

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Did two lots of updates during the day because I noticed a fresh security patch, and reboots were needed.
1.75 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting and follow-up.
0.75 hours: MAJW: Created a condensed explanation of how to set up a cron job and ant task to dump db to disk and pull it into svn for SA and TEH.
0.25 hours: Admin: Timesheets.
4.00 hours: DVPP: More updates to site style and content, and more poems re-encoded.

Total: 7.25 hours

Wednesday 2022-03-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Maint: Testing HCMC Journal and reporting to TEH.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Added Schematron rule and tested per ticket in Teams.
4.50 hours: DVPP: CSS work on stats table for mobile display; fixes for other rendering issues; new front copy integrated; consistent application of title element to DVPP initialism; many periodicals updated; bugfix for Christmas Issue auto-tagging error; more poems tweaked in Chartist.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Had to give up on Teams as a ticketing tool because students cannot see comments; set up a GitHub repo instead, and migrated my current tickets over there. Also created milestones and labels as required.

Total: 7.25 hours

Thursday 2022-03-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: ProD: Learning the basics of Neo4j.
1.00 hours: LEMDO/DVPP: Meeting with JJ to plan ENGL500 encoding work, and to walkthrough xpr file structure and usage in LEMDO,
0.75 hours: Maint: Updating Saxon to new 10.7 version in all live projects.
1.00 hours: HCMC Journal: Discussions with TEH on XSLT for old posts; basic work on build process.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting and tweaks to keystroke shortcuts.
3.50 hours: DVPP: Soft launch day: Refreshed most of the TEI metadata, made tweaks to CSS for layout, fixed a couple of bugs resulting from last-minute changes, and rebuilt and released a couple of times.

Total: 8.00 hours

Friday 2022-03-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Urgent rebuild and republish of DVPP before breakfast, for presentation.
0.50 hours: ProD: More investigation of Neo4j, and message to CC about her use of it.
2.50 hours: DVPP: Discussion with AC about the feedback to the soft launch; fix for bug found by KF and rebuild/republish to remove signs of it from the live site; reworked the teaching package build ready for ENGL500, tested, updated laptop for in-situ testing on Monday, and updated the encoding documentation.
0.25 hours: Maint: Testing of webserver3/vihistory.
1.00 hours: Moses: Reconfiguring some diagnostics per SK; email on next steps.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Raised new issue re easier debugging page; branched, implemented, and pull-requested, followed by discussion with JT and merge.
1.25 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting and attending presentation by AL.

Total: 7.25 hours

Isolation log week 95

Work done from home and in the office 2022-02-22 to 2022-02-25 (4-day week)

Total: 29.00 hours
G&T hours: +1.0

Tuesday 2022-02-22

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: HCMC staff meeting & follow-up.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Looking into long commandline eg which is wrapping badly. No solution I can see.
5.00 hours: DVPP: Much progress on mobile rendering, including tables displaying as lists; encoded a fresh poem to push us over 2,000; re-worked several others; fixed display bugs in various contexts; reorg of front-page documents and new copy from AC.

Total: 7.00 hours

Wednesday 2022-02-23

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: TEI: Attempting to debug OOM error with RNV following fresh merge of pull request; not there yet.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Retrieving lost comments from a previous revision, and re-running a modified version of the process that inadvertently discarded them.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Polished off a languishing ticket; project meeting.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Bugfix and pull request.
5.25 hours: DVPP: More work on new site layout, configuration of fresh search param, two Zoom meetings, one new poem encoded as a test, and other fixes.

Total: 8.00 hours

Thursday 2022-02-24

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: TEI: More investigation into RNV issue, which turns out to be caused by an expat update.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Working with JJ on converting an ISE text.
0.75 hours: ProD: Compute Canada session on data management.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Schema updates to allow links to LangueWendat entries.
4.50 hours: DVPP: Reworking documentation, conversion XSLT to extract style attribute stuff, re-encoding of test poems, fixes for CSS.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2022-02-25

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Discussions of ticket requests.
2.00 hours: TEI: Stylesheets group meeting, and follow-up discussion on Slack of the Working Group mandate.
4.25 hours: DVPP: Lots of cleanup of styles; more documentation fixes; tweaks to individual poems; reimplementation of editorial footnote rendering in poems; changes to metadata and poem details slideouts per discussions with AC.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 94

Work done from home and in the office 2022-02-14 to 2022-02-18

Total: 39.50 hours
G&T: +4.50 hours

Monday 2022-02-14

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: Meeting with HBS and SB to work on Stylesheets tickets.
1.00 hours: BCHT: Meeting with SA and PR to continue briefing and planning.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Handled a couple of minor tickets.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Reviewed all JT's changes in latest v2 deprecation branch, and added some of my own; tested and reported.
3.50 hours: DVPP: Fixed a bunch of errors the came up over the weekend, by disentangling hide/show markers from regular class attributes; fixed CSS layout issues; Added Oxy code templates for semi-automated fixes to markup for capitalized titles, and did a bunch of them to test; added new stats in poem page; tweaked search page CSS a bit; various other tweaks.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2022-02-15

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: TEI: Check and merge Stylesheets pull request.
1.50 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Decision and action on domain pointing issue.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Implement and test two tickets on prefix/idno values.
0.75 hours: Maint: Investigating options for providing a room map as part of the booking app. We would have to hack the PHP, which would mean re-hacking after every update.
0.25 hours: ProD: Investigating MySQL Generated Fields, which were not available in older versions we got used to. May replace triggers in some cases.
0.50 hours: First batch of timesheets for first half of the month.
3.75 hours: DVPP: Many updates and changes to search page; bugs found in staticSearch and raised as issues (although they are edge-cases and not urgent); fixes to poem rendering.

Total: 8.50 hours

Wednesday 2022-02-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Timesheets and related admin.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Hotfix release of 1.4.1 to fix bug I found yesterday; much trouble getting various branches re-aligned following that; tickets raised to discuss our approach to hotfixes; new issue/branch to make our documentation more readable, with a pull request for CSS fixes and changes.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: SVN user updates; ticket triage; diagnosis of build breakage which turns out to be caused by TEI changes, so raised a ticket.
4.00 hours: DVPP: Two meetings; work on search page filters and post-processing; many fixes to content, processing and rendering in consultation with AC and the team.

Total: 8.00 hours

Thursday 2022-02-17

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Work around build break caused by TEI bug.
0.50 hours: Maint: Looking into CI component of GitLab versus Jenkins; discussion with GN.
4.50 hours: DVPP: Processing many files to abstract incidental styles, and much work on CSS and category rendering.
0.50 hours: Work with TEH on hcmcJournal and options for cleaning up old blog posts.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Work on reconstruction schema; project meeting.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2022-02-18

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: Work on Stylesheets to bring the p5subset with recent changes into effect, and fix fallout. Meeting with SB to resolve issue on deleting constraintSpecs.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Raised issue for sorting feature filter items, created branch, implemented, raised pull request.
4.25 hours: DVPP: Extensive work on CSS to make untranscribed poems lay out better; fixes for several individual poems; moved periodical info into the TEI permanently, and remediated it; updates to About page and other content; various processing fixes.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Ticket triage, some CSS, project meeting.

Total: 8.00 hours

Isolation log week 93

Work done from home and in the office 2022-02-07 to 2022-02-11

Total: 35.00 hours

Monday 2022-02-07

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers (kernel updates).
1.25 hours: TEI: Meeting with HB, SB, & NC to work on Stylesheets tickets.
0.50 hours: Endings: Installing and figuring out a video editor, then trimming leading and trailing content off the Lansdowne lecture video from last week before reposting on Endings site. Not yet linked; need to consult on that.
1.00 hours: BCHT: Meeting with PR and SA to continue explaining project structure and build process.
1.50 hours: Moses: Meeting with Colville Tribes folks to discuss deployment of static dictionary; fix for obscure bug that was preventing discovery of related entries for some roots and stems.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Discussion with TEH re updating of Chartist transcriptions; reworking of links to XML source so the source can be stored in its original folder structure; careful removal of all instances of 0 in the periodical number field, which should never have been there, per AC.
0.75 hours: BreezeMap: discussions with GN re custom message for timeline; addition of a second member in the detail object attached to the custom event, this being a boolean specifying whether the timeline is in play mode or not.

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2022-02-08

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Moses: Correspondence with ECH re expectations and obligations to CT.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Finishing up release from yesterday and announcing; moving on to new milestone issues; experimenting with better CSS for documentation.
2.00 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting and follow-up.
3.00 hours: DVPP: Got image thumbnails displaying in the reader view, and then linebreaks within poetic lines being suppressed in default view, then turnable on in diplomatic.

Total : 5.00 hours (left early for appointment).

Wednesday 2022-02-09

1.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. The result was an overwrite of previous configuration of the CSP on the main Jenkins server, and I had to do some experimentation and research to re-establish a decent CSP and document it.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Ticket triage and implementation.
4.00 hours: DVPP: Checking into badly-named images on the server; fixing a bug in linebreak handling; adding handling for spaces before punctuation marks; tweaks to captions per AC; first draft of chapter proposal with AC.
1.00 hours: HCMC: hcmcJournal project progress: now building site pages as well as posts; boilerplate files now consolidated into templates; initial work to support staticSearch (which will be complex because of restricted data).

Total: 7.50 hours

Thursday 2022-02-10

1.00 hours: Update Jenkins servers. More work needed on CSP for video and other fixes.
2.00 hours: DVPP: Testing thoroughly, then switching site over to new rendering and tweaking some output options. Work on chapter proposal.
1.00 hours: Francotoile: Meeting with CC to discuss updates and fixes; fixed one bug, one remaining I know about.
0.50 hours: Keats: New edition released per KB.
0.50 hours: Maint: Testing of new web cluster with LW and GN.
0.50 hours: hcmcJournal: Briefing TEH on new task: auto-download and configuration of old posts.
2.50 hours: Wendat: Meeting with ML to discuss schema changes; project meeting; schema changes and fallout processing.

Total: 8.00 hours

Friday 2022-02-11

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Francotoile: fixed remaining bug by switching in svn revision for staticSearch versioning, thus avoiding caching when version number changes; tweaked a couple of other things and published fresh version.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Note from NVD that we should update personnel info on our site to reflect changes, and redirect submissions to the UofA OJS. Various updates to site info made, and new version published.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Added Schematron rule per JJ, then temporarily tweaked it to suppress errors from three files that still need to be fixed; diagnosed and fixed build break.
0.25 hours: Wendat: Added a new value to the POS taxonomy per ML; still discussing the best way to do kinship terms.
3.75 hours: DVPP: Refreshed metadata for three periodicals; encoded a fresh poem; responded to report on search from DD; implemented controls for sonic devices and updated CSS to distinguish types by colour; other fixes.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: switched all our current projects over to the main branch of staticSearch, since the dev branch is going to be breaking backwards compatibility soon.

Total: 7.50 hours

Isolation log week 92

Work done from home and in the office 2022-01-31 to 2022-02-04

Total: 36.75 hours
G&T hours: +1.75

Monday 2022-01-31

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers (kernel updates).
0.75 hours: DVPP: Updates to metadata in multiple periodicals.
1.50 hours: Endings: Co-hosting Lansdowne lecture by JC.
0.50 hours: VIHistory: Discussions with GN re HISCO etc.
0.50 hours: Timesheets.
3.25 hours: HCMC: Working on HCMC Journal application.

Total: 7.00

Tuesday 2022-02-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Admin: End of month timesheets for DVPP and Wendat crew.
0.75 hours: Endings: Email discussion with PR about static site builds, the Principles, and staticSearch.
1.25 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Tweak to Schematron rule, some ticket comments and responses in Teams.
4.00 hours: DVPP: Some significant progress with poem rendering and metadata/poetics slideouts, including toggle for diplomatic view, links to TEI XML, rhyme controls, and some CSS tweaks. I'll have something to show to the team at tomorrow's meeting.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2022-02-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Moses: Email discussions, checking into diagnostics, disabling the last one requiring Python.
0.50 hours: Academic: More discussions with PR re hosting platforms and collaborations.
0.50 hours: Maint: Working with LW and GN on testing web cluster.
5.00 hours: DVPP: Moving forward with poem rendering; some remediation of test poem encoding; meeting with AC; general team meeting; many fixes and enhancements to search arising out of feedback from team.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2022-02-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: Discussion and drafting of conference proposal with JJ.
0.25 hours: Maint: More research on Samba and updates for Squash.
5.00 hours: DVPP: Refreshing metadata in 2 periodicals; adding preprocessing to generate poem stats and store them in XML; rendering of those stats in pages; harvesting of stats to create staticSearch numeric filters; style work; code remediation.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Update stats counts, triage tickets, project meeting.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2022-02-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers; check Squash for latest update (not yet).
0.50 hours: Reviewed and completed project proposal from KB.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Refreshing metadata in two journals; working on search page layout; found a bug and tracked it to staticSearch.
3.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Ticket and bugfix/pull request for the issue with restoring numeric filters on page navigation; minor fixes found in the process; much discussion on tickets and new tickets raised for 1.5 release, as we clear away the 1.4s; updating documentation ahead of 1.4.
0.50 hours: Maint: Working on testing and debugging VIHistory on webcluster3.
1.50 hours: HCMC: Working on hcmcJournal. Build is now producing valid HTML with rudimentary CSS.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Ticket triage; turned on build-failing for duplicate ids; project meeting.

Total: 7.75 hours.

Isolation log week 91

Work done from home and in the office 2022-01-24 to 2022-01-28

Total: 37.50 hours
G&T: + 2.50 hours

Monday 2022-01-24

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with Stylesheets subgroup.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Raised two new tickets, fixed a bug on a user ticket, discussed plans with JT on tickets.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Schematron rule, ticket triage, reverting changes from a Friday commit.
3.25 hours: DVPP: Working with TEH on title normalization XSLT; reworking the layout and CSS for the poem search page; adding many more search filters in the XSLT.

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2022-01-25

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Second update later on for the PwnKit vuln.
1.00 hours: HCMC Project Meeting.
1.25 hours: LEMDO: Meeting with NV and JJ to run through regex s&r process, as well as setup for project templates.
1.25 hours: BCHT: Meeting with SA and PR to run through the basic organization of a digital edition project.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: handled ticket to merge two test suites into one, and issued pull request for JT. Suggested fix for another minor ticket. Wrestled with Jenkins builds which were trying to do the obsolete test and then tripping over debris from previous builds.
3.50 hours: DVPP: Fixed duplicate poems caused by metadata update that failed to complete for some reason. Completed addition of new search meta tags and reworked the postprocessing of the poem search page; also added poet names to staticSearch docTitle.

Total: 8.50 hours

Wednesday 2022-01-26

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: lots of ticket triage and discussion with JT ahead of coming release; implemented one ticket and fixed a couple of other things.
1.50 hours: Admin/Maint: Set up project repo for blog replacement and started populating it and adapting documentation from Keats project.
3.00 hours: DVPP: Finished initial work on poem search, incorporating new filters; reworked other search pages to suppress those filters; meeting with AC and a couple of other fixes.
0.75 hours: MOEML: Project meeting and follow-up chasing down problem with multiple sources for geos. Switched edition number to 7.0a following discussion.

Total: 8.00 hours

Thursday 2022-01-27

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
3.00 hours: DVPP: More tweaks to search page; rewrite of build process to enable post-processing to be debugged more quickly; addition of new page showing how to do research with the poem search page; discussion of possible chapter proposal; bugfixes and addition of table elements and XSLT processing for them.
1.25 hours: Wendat: Ticket triage and project meeting.
2.00 hours: Maint/HCMC: Completed first draft of schema for hcmcJournal, set up Teams space and ticketing, started work on post category system as a TEI taxonomy.

Total: 6.50 hours

Friday 2022-01-28

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: TEI: Checked in with end of Stylesheets Group meeting, and reviewed pull request from their fix.
1.00 hours: Moses: Meeting with ECH, addition of some content at request of band, and fix for resulting processing bug.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Diagnosing build break and fixing some XSLT.
2.00 hours: hcmcJournal: Got schema building correctly, along with Schematron and preprocessing of taxonomies; created templates; fixed some errors in schemaSpec; did some repo reorganization; discussions with GN on categories; research into RSS standards.
3.50 hours: DVPP: Worked out how to encode original lang of translation in TEI, then modified the schema and sql_to_tei appropriately and tested. Added ss meta tag for that to the output and modified search build configs and post-processing accordingly. Fixed an ordering bug in listings pages reported by AC. Various other minor fixes.

Total: 7.50 hours

Isolation log week 90

Work done from home and in the office 2022-01-17 to 2022-01-21

Total: 36.00 hours
G&T: +1.00 hours

Monday 2022-01-17

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB and NC: working on alternate attList tickets.
0.75 hours: Timesheets and setting up hour-tracking for workstudy, since hours are getting low.
2.00 hours: DVPP: Fixing all remaining caps following initial drop-caps. Fixing a couple of other things found along the way, and working with TEH on her task.
3.00 hours: VIHistory: working on merging the official LAC district/subdistrict data with the rather flaky PGSQL data.

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2022-01-18

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Kernel updates.
... need to track back through commits to complete this -- no time on the day.

Total: 7.00 hours

Wednesday 2022-01-19

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Long-overdue desk cleaning.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: integrating German translations provided by users.
1.50 hours: Maint: Working with LW on plans and testing of server migration.
4.00 hours: DVPP: Initial work on poem search page; meeting with AC; general project meeting; completion of drop-cap processing code, which still needs testing before implementation.
1.00 hours: Moses: Discussions on cit comparison diagnostic, and initial XSLT.

Total: 8.00 hours

Thursday 2022-01-20

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: CSDH submission review.
1.00 hours: Moses: Finished the cit diagnostic requested by SK and ECH.
4.00 hours: DVPP: Created setup of poem search page, as long discussed; added lots of additional metadata to enable more filters on that page; processed all drop-caps into new encoding format; added XSLT to handle new format; fixed a bunch of straight quotes in the db and tweaked SQL-to-TEI process to catch and fix more of them as they come in.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting and bugfix for borked documentation build, caused by changes to the TEI Stylesheets.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Schema fix per JJ/ALHS.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2022-01-21

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
5.25 hours: DVPP: New search page for poems, with new meta filters; some CSS work on that; new system to handle redirects from retired pages; retired two old search pages; various other bugfixes and metadata updates.
0.25 hours: VIHistory: Discussion with GN about HISCO.
1.25 hours: LEMDO: Ticket triage, schema update, project meeting.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 89

Work done from home and in the office 2022-01-10 to 2022-01-14

Total: 36.25
G&T hours: +1.25

Monday 2022-01-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: With GN, work through virtual host config for webserver2 cluster and identify items to delete for LW configuring webserver3.
1.00 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB and NC. Completed Stylesheets issue #526.
3.00 hours: VIHistory: More analysis of location table data, questions to PD, discussions with GN re related maps, and XSLT to generate human-readable expanded location descriptions in pre-processing phase.
2.50 hours: DVPP: More work on incidental small-caps, and fixes for other things encountered along the way. There are another 100+ instances of actual caps to fix manually.

Total: 7.25 hours

Tuesday 2022-01-11

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Kernel updates and reboots needed.
0.50 hours: More software installs on new machine; some bugs showing up in Wayland.
0.50 hours: Reviewed first submission for DH2022.
3.50 hours: DVPP: More work with TEH on normalization and extraction of incidentals. A lot of new policy to make and enforce.
2.00 hours: BCHT: Prep for and meeting with PR re next phases of project.
0.50 hours: ColDesp: Meeting with KSS and discussion of work and prep needed for workstudy student.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2022-01-12

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: ColDesp: Updates to build process to provide useful highlighting for workstudy student to research places.
0.50 hours: Review of second DH2022 submission.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Meeting with PAB re plan for next release.
0.50 hours: BCHT: Emails with DL and GL about spreadsheet-to-TEI conversion.
4.50 hours: DVPP: New diagnostics, many fixes for existing issues, meeting with AC re release plan.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Ticket check and project meeting.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2022-01-13

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Moses: Answering requests from SK re diagnostics for citations.
0.50 hours: DVPP/ENG 500: Planning for March sessions of XML encoding, creating XQuery to identify potential poets we might address, and running questions past AC.
0.50 hours: Review of third DH2022 submission.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Framing proposal for rationalizing monarch ids.
0.25 hours: BreezeMap: Discussions with GN re timeline issues.
3.50 hours: DVPP: Adding two new bios and photos, and work on About page; fixes for more incidental capitals; cleanup of some XSLT; added handling for figure descriptions in non-transcription poems in the new rendering; splitting out of incidental versus main style elements.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.

Total: 6.75 hours

Friday 2022-01-14

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Maint: Investigating BugAlert service and signing up.
0.75 hours: Timesheet setup for BS moving from grant to WS, and other incoming timesheets.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Set up new keyboard shortcut and tweaked documentation display.
1.00 hours: Pro-D: Investigating Rust for WASM setup and capabilities.
2.00 hours: DVPP: Work on CSS for new poems; reworked XQuery for better results looking for candidate poets for ENG 500; fixed more initial caps issues.
1.50 hours: ColDesp: Changes to schema and addition of Schematron to police the marking of incomplete place entries, plus documentation of same; addition of two new search-in categories.
1.50 hours: VIHistory: retrieval of LAC listings of census districts and reformatting of it to make it processable into TEI.

Total: 7.75 hours

Isolation log week 88

Work done from home and in the office 2022-01-04 to 2022-01-07 (4-day week)

Total: 26.75 hours
G&T: -1.25 hours

Tuesday 2022-01-04
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
0.75 hours: Timesheet gathering and submission.
4.75 hours: Setting up new desktop computer and installing and testing everything required, including migrating old HDD and solving the multi-monitor problem.

Total: 7.00 hours.

Wednesday 2022-01-05
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: More software installs and configuration work on the new desktop.
4.25 hours: DVPP: Build and release of new version of site per AC; setting up new timesheet for NM who is migrating from workstudy to grant-funded; starting documentation of distinctions between incidental and substantive style features. Discussion of all these issues with AC and with TEH, who will be working on the project.

Total: 6.00 hours

Thursday 2022-01-06 (working from home; snow day)
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Timesheet shenanigans, as an RA transitions from WS to grant-funded in the middle of a pay-period, and Google Docs borks a timesheet.
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: reviewed pull request from JS on search-in feature and merged; added French caption supplied by CC.
4.00 hours: Working with TEH on figuring out what changes will need to be made to the encoding of poem titles to handle the fact that literal capitals have been transcribed for almost all titles, while capitalization is in fact incidental and will need to be off by default. This is complicated, and we're only just figuring out how hard it's going to be.
0.50 hours: Maint: Testing of Mariage on new web cluster, and discussion with LW on process for migration. I think I understand it better now.

Total: 6.50 hours

Friday 2022-01-07
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Maint: Installing more software required on desktop; failed attempt to install MS Endpoint Defender, which fails because MS has not released required libs for Ubuntu 21.10; reported in detail to the Helpdesk.
1.75 hours: VIHistory: Meeting with GN to look again at locations and discuss structure of output files and header metadata now that we have "search in" function available in staticSearch.
2.50 hours: DVPP: More work on incidental stuff, especially small-caps and other cap-related issues. Updates to TEI metadata to bring Good Words up to date with many db changes.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Fix for rendering issues in collations; schema updates for lem element; fixes for bad URLs in documentation; team meeting.

Total: 7.25 hours