Continuing to Endings-fy the DRE site; I'm not aiming for a perfect reproduction since the DRE team + PS have the design know-how, but I am trying to get most of the structural elements in place so that it approximates the original. Finding lots of errors and fixing them as I go.
July 5, 2018
I now have text search actually working, after a lot of workarounds to handle eXist's fierce validation of the forms of URIs. However, the implementation of the search facets is not functional yet. Getting there.
Interviewed DJ, processed resulting audio.
Making steady progress; hoping to finish tomorrow. Found some Schematron that was out of date, and tweaked some of the document markup after fixing it. Added a bit to documentation.
July 4, 2018
Lots of work on the DRE framework. I have a very quick and dirty imitation of the current site (but using grid, so it flexes nicely); it's not perfect, but it's helpful for visualizing the content. Made a test build to see how the original XML looks when moving in the HTML and it's all looking fine.
Keeping lots of balls in the air...
Went through the first interview assigned to me and added topics in the keywords section of the header. Also added the required components for this to the schema, and handling for them in the Author Mode CSS. Then helped EC merge conflicting versions after we both edited the same file at the same time.
Added four new images to the gallery per KB, and at the same time, documented the process for adding images to the gallery. Also re-encoded one of the poems (Lock of Milton) following KB's model, and added two images to an article page.
1074 new page-images (in three different sizes) from the following volume have been added to the Colonial Despatches collection: CO 305 Vol 28 (Vancouver Island 1866 Despatches to London, January to June). These will now be linked into the transcription documents.
I'll be splitting Stow 1598 this weekend, so there's a few things to do in the meantime. Got rid of all the pointers to stow_1598 and replaced them with a more specific fragment pointer; most of these were in PERS1.