Meeting with MA and JS-R, with skype to WA and TW. Discussed a lot of issues around AtoM, with no resulting immediate work required from HCMC; also talked about the build process and diagnostics, as a result of which I have today:

• Integrated generation of the transaction-based spreadsheet into the build process. This is based on the work we did earlier to pre-generate data for SPSS use.
• Integrated three new diagnostic tests:
  • A check for out-of-range dates, which throws up a few obvious errors (1066 etc.)
  • A check for cases in which the Custodian acquires a property for a significant consideration (more than a dollar). This finds three cases, ids 1785, 2946 and 5813.
  • A check for cases in which the Custodian sells a property for a nominal fee ($1 or less). This throws up five cases, 1029, 1171, 1639, 1966 and 3728.

We also planned out the extension of the spreadsheet generation to generate from the current version two more versions:

• One in which all amounts are normalized to their modern-day values, based on a lookup table to be supplied by JS-R.
• One in which rows involving nominal-sum transactions are elided, to provide only a chain of significant transactions.

These would be generated in sequence, so I can repurpose the CSV-parsing code I wrote the other day for CCAP to use XSLT to create them. An alternative would be Python, if I feel like making life difficult for myself.