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Isolation log week 87

Work done from home and in the office 2021-12-13 to 2021-12-17

Total: 36.00 hours
G&T hours: +1.00

Monday 2021-12-13

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers; check logs for exploit attempts, and confirm again no instances of the vulnerable lib.
1.25 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB to prep for Stylesheets Group meeting on Thursday.
1.50 hours: Endings/DHQ: Editors' meeting to finalize intro.
0.50 hours: Maint: Following up on log4j vuln on desktops; install/test of Oxygen update.
1.50 hours: MoEML/LEMDO: Gave workshop on regex.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting.
0.50 hours: Wendat: XQuery to detect citation duplicates.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Fixes for rendering issues, one still outstanding.

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2021-12-14

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: DVPP: Got basic grid layout for untranscribed poems working, but more to do on aside panels.
1.25 hours: HCMC Staff meeting; meeting with TEH re setup of workstation etc.
1.75 hours: Maint: More research and mitigation on log4j across various servers. Took down and removed a stack of obsolete web apps, and worked with GN on mitigations for others.
0.50 hours: Keats: New release of web application per KB.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Rewrote morpheme matching process per ML; project meeting.

Total: 7.25 hours

Wednesday 2021-12-15

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Moses: Added a couple of temporary buttons to the onscreen keyboard on the search page per SK.
0.50 hours: Admin/Wendat: Workstudy form for hiring of BS in Jan.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Discussion with PAB re release on Friday.
0.50 hours: Endings/Graves: Transfer of Graves to Library archive now complete.
0.75 hours: More research and testing for log4j vulnerabilities.
4.50 hours: DVPP: Continuing work on poem and metadata rendering. Basic layout is working nicely for poems with no transcription or figures; we're about one-third of the way there.

Total: 7.50 hours

Thursday 2021-12-16

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers; more checking for log4Shell exploits.
1.50 hours: MyNDIR: several attempts to fix rendering bugs, undermined by changing encoding. Finally working.
1.50 hours: TEI: Stylesheets Working Group meeting.
3.00 hours: Maint: First setup and testing of new desktop machine.
0.50 hours: Maint: More research on UVic MFA, which is now going to be mandatory.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2021-12-17

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: MyNDIR: New fixes and updates, test for broken URLs, and release of 2.1.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Queries from AC and XQuery to list out poems with temporary page-images for scanners to act on.
4.50 hours: Maint: Built up new machine ready to go, ported over old HD, set up, and then discovered problem with multi-monitors, so had to migrate back again to the old machine. There may be a fix using a kernel param though.

Total: 7.25 hours

Isolation log week 86

Work done from home and in the office 2021-12-06 to 2021-12-10

Total: 38.25 hours
G&T hours +3.25

Monday 2021-12-06

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB, working on TEI issue relating to spaces in URI-datatype attributes.
3.50 hours: DB migration day. Working with JA, GN and SA on moving from loquat to persimmon. Ended up being quite tricky.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Rewrote migration output code to include article galleys and to re-enable inclusion of HTML articles. Tested with issue 15, which has no images so is less complex than the rest; import never completes, no error messages; contacted JH so he can look at logs.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Implemented first stage of ticket to create GLOSS1.xml and associated processing.

Total: 7.25 hours

Tuesday 2021-12-07

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: LEMDO: Debugged and fixed overnight build break (my fault) and made a bit more progress on glossary implementation.
1.00 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Added images into the migration mix, and tested (failed, but we think we know why).
0.75 hours: Wendat: ticket triage, project meeting.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Rebuilt metadata for two periodicals, and wrote script to pull down latest built site for convenience.
1.50 hours: Endings/DHQ: Editors' meeting, and drafting of the bulk of the intro piece.

Total: 7.25 hours

Wednesday 2021-12-08

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.25 hours: ColDesp: Discussions with PS and KSS on home page and other changes; generating two new pages for IP individuals and groups per requirements from KSS; fixes for hundreds of unwanted spaces and encoding errors exposed by new Schematron.
1.75 hours: Maint: Working with SA, GN and JA on fallout from the db migration, figuring out and documenting how to create working privilege settings on new and existing dbs.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: More work on glossary rendering; now items are being retrieved into standalone, ready for linking. Tweak to svn permissions, and fix for build break caused by mysterious invisible char.
1.25 hours: Scancan: More fixes for import code, not working yet, but some progress.
0.25 hours; DVPP: Quick fix for unwanted date, and a couple of discussions/emails.
0.50 hours; MyNDIR: New XSLT and CSS to process portraits for the team page at PAB's request; a couple of other fixes.
0.25 hours: Maint: Discussions with Help Desk re Yubikeys.

Total: 8.00 hours

Thursday 2021-12-09

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.25 hours: Scancan: More tweaks, fixes and testing, culminating in success. We're now ready to import all old issues into a reconstituted journal backend when it's ready.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Refreshed four journal metadata sets; OCRed unencoded poem for encoders; wrote XQuery to answer research questions at AC's request.
0.75 hours: Maint: More research into Yubikeys and MFA setup, and discussions with Help Desk.
1.50 hours: BreezeMap: Added option to specify initial taxonomy, and updated documentation (issue #49); started work on validation problem (issue #42).
1.50 hours: Endings/DHQ: Drafting session with editors for intro.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Fix for team page layout issue, and build break.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Fix for build break.

Total: 7.75 hours

Friday 2021-12-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Refresh of TEI metadata for one journal; checking into diagnostics.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Bug fix for XML encoding.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Reconstituted fresh OJS instance and re-imported all issues for final result. I think we are done at this point.
1.25 hours: Maint: Responding to CVE-2021-44228.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Remaining implementation of glossary linking, which proved quite hard; meeting on old-spelling texts and rendering.
2.00 hours: Endings/DHQ: Collaborative editing of intro etc.

Total: 8.00 hours

Isolation log week 85

Work done from home and in the office 2021-11-29 to 2021-12-03

Total: 38.00 hours
G&T hours: + 3.00

Monday 2021-11-29

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Shifted all shipping volumes down to the mail room and arranged mailout with ED. Added filesize attributes to the migration code and refined it in discussion with JH who is testing.
0.25 hours: Maint: Arranged timing of MySQL migration next week, and informed DVPP team.
2.75 hours: DVPP: Refined the duplicate-poem detection diagnostic I wrote at the weekend to ignore punctuation and to highlight most likely actual dupes. Began work on layout for poem rendering.
1.75 hours: Moses: Implemented and tested custom stemmers for staticSearch, which now enable searching with and without acute and grave accents (which are used for stress, not phonemics). Published a new version of the site, and in the process debugged an rsync issue in the build file.
1.25 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting and ticket triage.

Total: 7.25 hours

Tuesday 2021-11-30

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
3.50 hours: LEMDO: Fixed overnight Schematron validation bug; did some research on the persName vs name issue, and posted a question. Looking into persName, discovered that the apparent small problem was much larger, and rewrote the standalone XML processing step to ensure that annotations and collations are included in the document before entities are pulled in. Seems to be working, but needs thorough testing when builds are complete.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Refreshed TEI in three periodicals; followed up with team on timesheet issue.
1.00 hours: Endings/DHQ: Editors' meeting and follow-up with JC on DHQ submission.
2.25 hours: Wendat: Project meeting; implemented handling for persName tag; Added a new staticSearch feature for searching within specific MSS.
0.50 hours: BreezeMap: Finished testing issue 45 fix, merged, and closed; checked into another ticket on SCSS and closed it.

Total: 8.00 hours

Wednesday 2021-12-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Admin: Timesheets (all except one done).
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Fixed overnight bug with imported entities; all now apparently working. Tested rendering of ASSP citation pointers and confirmed with team that all looks good.
4.50 hours: DVPP: Project meetings (3 of them); worked out with team how to handle the problem of Christmas Issues, and even how to turn it into a feature; implemented this with changes to the db and to the code which generates TEI from the db dump, as well as implementing it in the FacsViewer interface; fixed a couple of other bugs, added columns to poem listings tables, and standardized and centralized the captioning for table headers. Changed CSS to SCSS and added build step. Did some research on possible CSS layouts for poem rendering with PS, looking for a pure-CSS way to handle slideout panels as a fallback.
0.75 hours: MyNDIR: Created a new page, linked it as appropriate, and added handling for empty materials elements per instructions from PAB.
0.75 hours: ColDesp: Fixing a bunch of hard-coded http links to our own site (a no-no) along with lots of missing spaces and other issues in the encoding.

Total: 8.25

Thursday 2021-12-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.75 hours: ColDesp: Multiple fixes for hundreds of instances of obsolete linking methods; fixes for rendering to enable expansion of citations as originally planned; updates to documentation to show recommended use of cdc: prefix and remove old examples.
0.75 hours: Maint: Discussions and research re new desktop purchase; reinstall of Ubuntu on HCMC laptop.
1.75 hours: LEMDO: Prep and meeting on editing elementSpecs; discussions of FRs from QME team; fixes to schema.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Discussion with JH regarding latest import bugs.
1.25 hours: DVPP: Planning for meta elements required for poem search; new diagnostic to discover poems whose CSS will need attention (not yet actually working).

Total: 7.00

Friday 2021-12-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
3.00 hours: Scancan: Initial attempt to import files into OJS; all were imported, but PDFs not available and spent some time debugging; finally got some example exports from UofA folks and started to figure out how to restructure the file to provide published galleys. Also need to remove HTML from title field, but I also now have an example of how to include HTML and images, so I'll do that too before we try again.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Debugged and fixed yesterday's diagnostic and spent some time working out options for poem search.
2.00 hours: ColDesp: Fixed a range of errors throughout the encoding, including bad links found by the diagnostics, and bad encoding practices leading to spaces in the wrong places etc. There are a lot of issues I didn't know about, and more to do here.
1.25 hours: VIHistory: With GN went through some core fields and figured out how we might normalize them across the censuses; sent a couple of queries to PD.

Total: 7.50 hours

Isolation log week 84

Work done from home and in the office 2021-11-22 to 2021-11-26

Total: 37.75
G&T: + 2.75 hours

Monday 2021-11-22

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with SB to prepare for Stylesheets Working Group meetings.
1.50 hours: Endings/DHQ: Editors' meeting and emails out to contributors.
0.25 hours: Endings: Initial attempt to submit proposal for DH 2022, but had to send Qs on submission process to DH.
0.25 hours: ColDesp: Discussion with KSS of latest updates; fix to typo.
1.00 hours: Maint/ProD: Initial testing and reading documentation for Compute Canada resources now account is active.
3.00 hours: DVPP: Beginning prep work for new rendering of poems; identifying issues with pb / page-image correspondence.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2021-11-23

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Maint/ProD: More wrestling with Compute Canada setup to see if we can get it building DVPP.
1.50 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
0.25 hours: Endings/DH 2022: Reformatted GN's and my submission for the conference to use end notes, and submitted after getting response on questions from yesterday.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Packaging boxes for shipping; contacting Distribution for shipping instructions.
0.75 hours: Moses: Figuring out how the password protection got deleted from the live site, adding it back, and fixing the rsync that nuked it.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Restructuring splash page and footer content per PS's redesign.
1.25 hours: DVPP: Fixing mismatches between pb tags and page-image graphics, in discussion with AC and KF.
1.25 hours: Wendat: Enhancements to morpheme matching table per ML; project meeting; file-splitting and other tasks arising out of meeting.

Total: 8.00 hours

Wednesday 2021-11-24

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Maint: Throughout the day, testing and refining approaches to running builds on Compute Canada. Built a new version of ant-contrib from a GitHub fork of the original codebase and included it into DVPP explicitly; that seems to be working.
0.75 hours: Wendat: More tweaks to the morpheme-matching process per request from ML.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Discussions on various anomalies; new diagnostic to catch new decade-years poems that need transcribing; did OCR for the one of these to emerge so far; various rewrites of the build process to help with Compute Canada testing.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Fix for build break; addition of new favicons and other tweaks to build process; replaced VNU with a current version.
1.50 hours: Graves: Meeting with Lib folks to plan migration; tweaks to site build to remove Google search and bump edition; rebuild and publication of new site version; archive posted for Library to take and deploy when they're ready.

Total: 6.50 hours

Thursday 2021-11-25 (working from home)

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: DVPP: Opened discussion on how best to find candidate encoding files that have incidental CSS that will need to be marked distinctly. Rewrote build process for Compute Canada scenario to include some parallelism into it; there's not much of that we can do, but testing to see if that will reduce the build time. Ran builds locally and on work desktop with and without parallel sections.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Re-engaging with OJS ingestion process, looked at feedback from JH re attempted ingestion last week and rewrote migration build to add incremented numeric ids where suggested. Referred back to JH for another test.
0.75 hours: VIHistory: Added another table to the stats/diagnostics process showing what fields exist in which census sets, so we can set about mapping between them.
1.25 hours: TEI: Stylesheets WG meeting, fixed issue #515.
1.25 hours: Wendat: Meeting with ML to discuss layout of entries in output dictionary; notes in Teams.
1.75 hours: LEMDO: Meeting and long discussion re facsimiles and facsimile viewer plan. Various other issues came up, and tickets have been raised.

Total: 7.75 hours

Friday 2021-11-26

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Talking to distribution about how to ship our packages; two new rewrites of the ingestion code in an attempt to get around SQL errors in the OJS ingester.
LEMDO: 1.00 hours: Implemented ticket on milestone/@unit and associated Schematron; fixed fallout invalidities.
MoEML: 1.25 hours: Project meeting.
DVPP/Maint: 4.00 hours: Work on detecting duplicate titles to find possible duplicate entries; more testing and discussion with Compute Canada help regarding optimizing builds (no joy really); planning CSS changes; testing dbs on new MySQL node prior to migration.

Total: 8.00

Isolation log week 83

Work done from home and in the office 2021-11-15 to 2021-11-19 (although I took a vacation day on the 15th because of flooding at home, so this was a 4-day week)

Total: 26.25 hours
G&T -1.75 hours

Tuesday 2021-11-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Working with UofA folks to try to get XML import into OJS working. Looks like the process is broken for the specific version of OJS that they're running, which is the current version. Looking at ways to work around an SQL constraint violation issue.
3.25 hours: Moses: Integration of new banner image from ECH to site; switch from sorting entries by phonemic collation to orthographic; many fixes and workarounds for spacing issues arising out of original XML.
0.25 hours: Mid-month RA timesheets (all but one received and submitted).
0.50 hours: Endings/Academic: Wrote first half of rough draft of DH 2022 submission.
0.50 hours: Maint: Archived and undeployed three apps from Peach/tomcat-devel: Moses, Lansdowne, and Francotoile. No more of my apps are running on Peach.
1.75 hours: Wendat: Project meeting, fix for missing image in documentation, enhancement to process providing candidate links between morphemes in cits with morphemes in reconstructed entries, to create an XSLT stylesheet on the fly to convert confident matches.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2021-11-17

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Maint: solving an annoying drive mount problem caused, it turned out, by Docker.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Finding and fixing a bug in rendering out catRef values as classes in the HTML body.
2.00 hours: Endings/Academic: Completed first draft of DH 2022 submission and started filling out reference list and refining.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Chasing up print run; finalizing and publishing vol 28 on the online site; planning for the mailout in the likely absence of KB.
2.00 hours: VIHistory: more analysis of the existing data; correspondence with PD re issues with the current site; discussions and decisions on strategy with GN; research (not fruitful) on possible XML standards for census data encoding.

Total: 7.25 hours

Thursday 2021-11-18

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Endings/VIHistory: More discussions with GN on strategy for mitigating project scale; completed the draft of the DH proposal and circulated it to the Endings team for comments.
2.50 Moses: Working on rendering of large pronunciation table for small-format devices; did a couple of other bug fixes. Got tables working as lists late in the day.

Total: 4.25 hours

Friday 2021-11-19

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Moses: Final enhancements to pronunciation page; added a beta badge to the build process; tweaks to CSS; built and tested site; published to live site and let SK and ECH know.
1.50 hours: ProD: Registered for ComputeCanada sessions in February; registered for an account (awaiting OK by sponsor); started working through CC documentation.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Long discussion with KSS and PS regarding re-skinning, plans for release, reorganization of content and interface, etc.
3.00 hours: Scancan: Printed labels, built boxes, labelled and stuffed envelopes etc. for shipping of 41 volumes. Still waiting on bubble wrap for the boxes, already ordered. Worked on the OJS ingestion bugs, and ended up creating a version of the file which embeds base64 versions of all the PDFs directly in the file; waiting for JH to test at UofA. Looks like the biggest problem is the href element.

Total: 7.25 hours

Isolation log week 82

Work done from home and in the office 2021-11-08 to 2021-11-12 (4-day week)

Total: 28.00 hours

Monday 2021-11-08

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers (kernel updates required testing and reboots).
1.00 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB, working on getting the P5 build to pass.
3.00 hours: Scancan: Completed the XML for OJS ingestion, and began the process of testing it; appears not to work when linking to remote files, so I may need to get the whole package installed on the UofA filesystem, but still waiting from clues from the OJS forum.
0.25 hours: Maint: Starting the process of getting a Compute Canada id (need sponsorship from JJ); testing and reporting to teams on connectivity issues for campus.
2.50 hours: VIHistory: Set up build process and elementary stats for investigating the PGSQL dump data, which seems less extensive than expected.

Total: 7.00 hours

Tuesday 2021-11-09

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Another failed attempt to get the docker container for the UofA OJS version running to do some local testing of XML imports. It looks like all 3.x versions of the docker container are still broken (since December last year, I think). Asked SS for info on how to package my stuff so they can put it on the file system to test directly on the test journal they've set up for this purpose.
2.00 hours: HCMC Staff Meeting.
2.00 hours: VIHistory: More work on stats and diagnostics, discussions with GN on HISCO mappings, and a few questions sent to PD on the discrepancies across censuses.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting and follow-up.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Restructured home page on PS's instructions to enable new design layout. Did some testing and proofing, and sent some possible edits to KSS.
0.25 hours: Rebuilding Graves with latest staticSearch, and testing.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2021-11-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Checking and testing GN's new static MoM site.
0.25 hours: Moses: More discussion on stemming and diacritics for the static site, and an XPath query to answer a question from SK.
1.75 hours: Graves: Figuring out last night's build break and reporting symptoms as staticSearch issue (looks like it was caused by an old Saxon in the main build getting used by the staticSearch code). Then rewrote some JS which was dropping popups offscreen on scrolled pages; now fixed.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Working on 4 Teams tickets, including auto-generated mapping document that should help with linking morphemes in ML's dissertation citations to the reconstruction data entries, reorganizing files, and adding a new @type valList to both the TEI and custom project schema note elements.
1.75 hours: VIHIstory: Expanded the stats/diagnostic page and created a build process around it, which will eventually be the static search page build. Jenkins is now building it.
0.75 hours: DVPP/Maint: Trying to resolve SVN conflicts resulting from campus connectivity issues over the weekend.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2021-011-12

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: VIHistory: Solving the puzzle of family ids, and sending another q to GN and PD; setting up a preprocess file to build unique family ids, in anticipation of many more such fixes.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Implementing sb: prefix, associated Schematron and processing; adding an example provided by JJ. Now waiting for build to complete to check.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Reconfiguration of the conversion XSLT so that it's possible to supply all required params for processing either at the command line or in Oxygen.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Correspondence with UofA team re import XML, which they're test-running for me.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Merged latest db data and updated TEI metadata for Chambers, Chartist and Cornhill.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Debugging a build problem with Graves, which looks like something we can't fix in a straightforward way for staticSearch builds invoked from within other builds, but which is easy to work around.

Total: 6.50 hours

Isolation log week 81

Work done from home and in the office 2021-11-01 to 2021-11-05

Total: 35.00 hours.

Monday 2021-11-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Timesheets (more to come).
1.25 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB, working on plan for ODD processing rewrite.
4.50 hours: Moses: Working through TODOs from last week's meeting and finishing up responsive design with help from PS.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting and follow-up.

Total: 7.25 hours

Tuesday 2021-11-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Timesheets.
2.00 hours: HCMC Staff meeting.
1.25 hours: Investigating and testing MS Endpoint Defender on Linux.
0.25 hours: ColDesp: Converted plain CSS to SCSS with build step to compile it for PS's work on redesign.
3.00 hours: Moses: More TODOs and fixes; created protected site on HCMC server and pushed a copy up there; asked team if it's now OK to take down the old app.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: discussions on GH tickets re features and pull request.

Total: 7.25 hours

Wednesday 2021-03-11

0.75 hours: Scancan: picked up print proof of vol 28 and checked it, then approved the print.
1.00 hours: Update Jenkins servers; investigate issues that brought down HCMC Jenkins service overnight. Looks like it was a crawler.
0.50 hours: Moses: Tweaks to CSS.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Added creation of sorted list of xml:ids from project in plaintext format for RAs to check more easily.
4.00 hours: Security day: install and testing of MSDE on desktop; benchmarking; configuring exclusions; testing asset info script and reporting issues with it; looking into UVic MFA, planning adoption, etc.

Total: 7.25 hours

Thursday 2021-11-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Academic: read and comment on proposal from JS with SA.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Meeting with Douai team and follow-up; fix for build warnings; troubleshooting encoder issues.
0.50 hours: ColDesp: Fix for changed URLs pointing at contentDM resources which have moved.
4.00 hours: Scancan: Meeting with UofA team on OJS; creation of migration build file and XSLT to create standalone HTML and package resources; next will be creation of XML file for OJS ingestion to go with the resources.

Total: 7.25 hours

Friday 2021-11-05

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Fix for overnight build break and fallout from schema customization.
1.50 hours: ColDesp: working on map URL changes in collaboration with DS at Library.
0.75 hours: BreezeMap: Fix for bug reported by GN.
2.75 hours: Scancan: Building import file with metadata for OJS ingestion, based on very sparsely-documented mysterious OJS XSDs. About half done.

Total: 6.00 hours

Isolation log week 80

Work done from home and in the office 2021-10-25 to 2021-10-29

Total: 36.00 hours
G&T hours: + 1.0

Monday 2021-10-25

[Working from home because of conference presentation.]
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Remove reconstruction/cognate work from site build, leaving easy options to restore it. Waiting for ML's OK to publish results.
3.50 hours: TEI Conference: Prep for presentation, attendance at sessions and my own presentation.
1.25 hours: Despatches: Re-editing a collection of different site pages to bring them up to date for release; checking all contributors to the svn repo have been acknowledged; some discussion on required changes for release and release date.
1.25 hours: Scancan: Vol 29 review published per NVD, and long detailed discussions aiming to arrive at a consensus on sort order for multilingual bibliography lists.
1.25 hours: Moses: Updates to information pages, progress with CSS, fixes for a couple of bugs, addition of caption for example lists.

Total: 8.00 hours

Tuesday 2021-10-26

[Working from home]
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
4.50 hours: Attendance at TEI Conference sessions.
0.50 hours: Tweaks to temporary document titles; built and published revised site to live URL per ML.
0.50 hours: Scancan: Implemented final decisions on sort order for vol 28; raised one more issue with editors.
0.50 hours: TEI: Revisions to Stylesheets pull request.

Total: 6.25 hours

Wednesday 2021-10-27

[Working from home]
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
4.50 hours: Attendance at TEI Conference sessions and members meeting, and follow-up.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Completed documentation for handShift; fixed three missing morphemes in example sentences, and fixed structure of the simplest instances; did [hopefully] final conversion of examples into wendat-namespaced citation structure for reconstruction work.
0.50 hours: LINCS: Trawl through svn logs to create report on work for grant report.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Tweak to bibliography, fix for missing section number, and rebuilds.
0.50 hours: Maint: Testing setup of Atom editor for XML editing following recommendation from conference.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2021-10-28

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Report on TEI Conference; discussion of DH 2022 and possible submission re VI History.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Final tweaks to keywords on articles. Awaiting OK from eds to go to print.
5.00 hours: Moses: All remaining bugs fixed; added new features to dismiss entries and handle containing tabs accordingly; refined sorting of listings pages, made many CSS fixes and enhancements; added new search features; fixed bibliography display. What remains is responsive/small-format handling.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2021-10-29

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers; troubleshoot crashed Jenkins.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Vol 28 sent to printers.
0.25 hours: ColDesp: Troubleshooting encoding issue for KSS.
0.50 hours: VIHistory/Conference paper: Planning abstract with GN.
1.00 hours: Endings: Editors' meeting for DHQ special edition.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Project meeting and follow-up task creation.
4.50 hours: Moses: New item-listing features for glosslist; early work on responsive layout; bugfixes; project meeting with ECH and SK.

Total: 7.75 hours

Isolation log week 79

Work done from home and in the office 2021-10-18 to 2021-10-22

Total: 36.25 hours
G&T hours: + 1.25

Monday 2021-10-18

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: With SB and NC, preparing for next Stylesheets Working Group meeting and triaging pull requests.
2.00 hours: VIHistory: Meeting with PD and subsequent discussions and testing of current app with a view to staticization.
1.00 hours: Scancan: More final proofing changes, fixes to keywords, rebuild of cover with hi-res raster for TOC. Some questions still outstanding.
0.25 hours: Maint: Looking into UVic's new MFA system.
1.50 hours: Working on TEI presentation (not coming together very well yet).
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Some tech support and project meeting.

Total: 7.25 hours

Tuesday 2021-10-19

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: TEI: Work on presentation for next week.
1.00 hours: HCMC: Staff meeting.
1.00 hours: Fire alarm, and following monitor debrief.
5.00 hours: Wendat: Wrote most of the conversion from dissertation examples to cit elements; many tweaks to schema and discussions on this; found some inconsistencies in data and reported to ML, some now fixed; added components for encoding hand shifts in MSS; started populating new Teams space with tasks; project meeting; tech support for encoders.

Total: 7.75 hours

Wednesday 2021-10-20

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Scancan: Worked through keywords in vol 28, removing vague general ones; published results, and wrote to guest editors to get them to take a final look at keywords for each article.
2.00 hours: Maint: Testing of new db setup on persimmon; many problems emerged, some solved, one not yet. Finally got dumps from persimmon working on pomelo and set up crontab. We are getting closer to being able to migrate, but there will be a lot of prep to do.
1.75 hours: TEI: Finished first draft of presentation for next week.
3.00 hours: Moses: Wrote override code for staticSearch results to make entries pop up in-place, while links to info pages still lead to the page. Some tweaking to do yet. Other fixes for staticSearch indexing and functionality.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Rebuilt TEI metadata for three periodicals.

Total: 7.75 hours

Thursday 2021-10-21

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: Moses: Finished tweaking the search script stuff and cleaned up some other issues.
1.75 hours: LEMDO: Rewrote character list rendering and fixed some bugs that fell out from it.
1.25 hours: TEI: Handled a Stylesheets ticket and issued a pull request; tested new translation tool.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Handled ticket to add noscript element in search page and issued pull request for JT.
0.75 hours: Academic: Wrote most of script draft for TEI conference presentation.

Total: 6.50 hours

Friday 2021-10-22

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: LEMDO: More work on the character listings to allow for various different habits in the XML encoding.
3.00 hours: Moses: JS and CSS work to iron out remaining annoyances in search page, including the requirement to make the onscreen keyboard trigger input events so that typeahead controls work, and fixes for display of content in entries. Fixed bugs in URL-rewriting to accommodate the same content being served in the root and in subfolders.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Some setup in new OJS system at UofA; deep dive into gnarly alphabetization issues for bibliography entries with author names containing particles and non-ascii letters. Sent recommendations to guest editors, and awaiting their response.
1.00 hours: Academic: Completed first draft of script for Monday presentation, and submitted slides to conference.
0.50 hours: Maint: Reconnection of Jonagold to the network (its ethernet connection cable had been used elsewhere); work on HCMC laptop update process, which is borked in Windows.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 78

Work done from home and in the office 2021-10-12 to 2021-10-15 (4-day week, 2021-10-11 stat)

Total: 30.25 hours
G&T hours: + 2.25

Tuesday 2021-10-12

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Catching up with email from vacation.
2.50 hours: Scancan: Discussions with HT and SA about scheduling and responsibility for upcoming volume; Proofing corrections for two articles.
1.00 hours: BCHT: Meeting with GL and DL to plan for generation of tabular view of current progress, and other project priorities.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Schema update ticket; meeting with JJ to work on requests from the manuscript encoding Douai team; email(s) to TEI-L re encoding of scribal pointers.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting; addition of two new counts to the stats chart per ML; addition of fw to the schema and some basic processing and documentation for it.
0.25 hours: Moses: Discussions with SK about static site features.

Total: 7.25 hours

Wednesday 2021-10-13

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: Moses: Addition of a link to each entry's root page; fixes for related entry lists (some more work on HTML to be done there).
1.50 hours: BCHT: New listings table output in diagnostics page, and discussions of the meaning and provenance of notBefore and notAfter dates.
2.25 hours: DVPP: Meeting with AC; full project meeting; investigations of image sizes on the server; backups of all current images in preparation for resizing the over-large ones; new documentation on image size constraints.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Discussions with JJ re @hand and stage elements for MS documents; co-drafting of TEI PR; discussion on character list rendering and new ticket raised; adding new editors to svn.
1.75 hours: Scancan: More discussions re arrangements for HT's absence; further proofing corrections to three articles.

Total: 8.25 hours

Thursday 2021-10-14

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Add stage element to att.written; add constraint to value of it, and prefixDef to link it. Add new HANDS1.xml file with Douai scribal hand entries. Add handNotes element to schema. Discussions on fallout from these changes.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Four lots of corrections to Vanherpen article.
3.00 hours: Moses: Fixes for a range of JS issues; tweaks to CSS; rewrite of related entry list generation to constrain normal lists to root/stem relationships only; early work on generating listings pages for name types.
1.00 hours: TEI/academic: Initial work on presentation for TEI 2021, coming soon.

Total: 7.25 hours

Friday 2021-10-15

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Spent some time investigating a package appearing only on one of the servers and not the other; removed it.
5.00 hours: Scancan: Final proofing corrections from HT, rebuild of volume, more interactions with editors and further changes; built the first incarnation of the cover, which is problematic in a couple of ways, and will require another approach to getting the TOC into it. Meeting with HT for final handover.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Project meeting.
1.25 hours: Moses: Further work on the proper name listings pages.

Total: 7.50 hours