The following requests came up in ECH and SMK's discussion of the database display today. None of these requests are urgent, but we hope MDH can accomplish them in this or the next phase of the project.

1) Display of dictegs:

Please display the <phr>'s and <seg> within a dicteg each on a separate line, so that we see

/qʼʷáɬstmsta ʔací ʔin-√qʼʷɬt-á-x̣ƛʼcíntn/ ECH
[qʼʷáɬstəmsta ʔacé ʔen-√qʼʷɬ-tá=x̣ƛʼčéntn̩] Y15.93
pack your pack-horse! Y15.93

instead of the current:

/qʼʷáɬstmsta ʔací ʔin-√qʼʷɬt-á-x̣ƛʼcíntn/ ECH [qʼʷáɬstəmsta
ʔacé ʔen-√qʼʷɬ-tá=x̣ƛʼčéntn̩] Y15.93 pack your pack-horse!
Y15.93

2) The symbol values of atomic entries (e.g. ROOT) should be displayed after the phonemic form of the word, before the sources. Currently the symbol value is displayed after the contents of the pron.

This looks fine in entries like:

/qʼʷácʼ/ ECH (ROOT)

But it gets messy if there is also a narrow transcription of the form ... and if it's long and the line starts to wrap:

/qʼʷaʔák/ A72; Y1.104; JM3.145.1 MG JM4.23.9 [qʼʷaʔaq] G74 (ROOT)

ECH would like it to look like:

/qʼʷaʔák/ (ROOT) A72; Y1.104; JM3.145.1 MG JM4.23.9
[qʼʷaʔaq] G74

3) Would it be possible to show/hide all the source information in the web database display? Could the user click a button to make all the bibl information disappear or reappear?

4) Place Names

-are tagged with <placeName> within def:seg
-entries containing this tag appear as regular entries in the dictionary
-entries containing this tag could ALSO be displayed on a separate Place Names page.

5) Personal Names

-tagged with <persName> within def:seg
-if an entry contains a <persName> tag, the whole entry should be hidden from the main dictionary database display
-entries containing a <persName> tag should be listed on a separate Personal Names page

6) Mapping bibls to elicitation dates

Re: the personography, MDH had asked if MDK's notebooks are dated. The answer is yes, but the dates are only recorded on the notebooks themselves in the U of Washington archives. So the idea of mapping the numbers in the bibls to the dates will have to wait until one of us can go to Seattle and look at the notebooks.