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