HCMC Blogs

Met with SA, JS-R and JM to work out a basic database schema, which we'll implement. The whiteboard contains our very messy diagrams, which will have to be turned into a proper model tomorrow; then we'll start work on implementing the db and a user interface based on the Adaptive DB code, starting with the "properties" and "census_tracts" tables. I'll post a model document when we've finished it.

Added the collapsing/expanding box for the Provenance data, and also handlers for line-group and line.

Long meeting with PAB during which we discovered that her schema is somehow borked, and validation hasn't been working for her for ages; so there are hundreds of markup errors in the files, such as duplicate xml:id attributes, attributes used in the wrong places, and others. Tried to fix some of them mechanically, but the duplicate ids prevent the XSLT processor from building a proper DOM, so it can't work properly. However, most are the same small number of errors, so they'll be easy to fix.

Still no word from sysadmin with regard to the character encoding issue on Pear.

These are first sets of goals. With luck, we’ll be able to move even further ahead.

At the end of your work week, please let me know what files you’ve worked on and to what extent. I will report back by Monday of the following week.

Lauren

Encoding: The corpus will be 90% established for phase 1 of the project once these texts are added.

Desportes, Stances du mariage

(Eventually, I would like to add other 16th-century texts such as Jamyn's "Misograme" and the responses to Desportes by Blanchon, Le Gaygnard and Rouspeau, only available at the Bnf and the British Library. I may order a copy. Also the Discours sur le mariage of 1587.)

Verse from collections: Le labyrinthe d’amour, Le labyrinthe de récréation, La muse folastre, Les muses gaillardes, Le recueil des plus excellans vers satyriques

Brief discours sur la reformation des mariages (includes notes from the 19th-c. edition)

Fantastique repentir: 19th-century notes – do we have a way of distinguishing them from our notes?

Purgatoire : 19th-century notes

Annotation: "La forest nuptiale" is without references and needs them. Many will already be in the reference file, fortunately. "La Duchesse de Milan" should also be annotated if time allows.

Leanna

Finish annotating Sonnet 1609; "Timethélie"? Transcribe, mark up and annotate Sonnet 1622.

Claire

Review reference file and modify when needed (being careful not to do so when others are working on the same documents).

Make modifications when problems noticed (being careful not to do so when others are working on the same documents).

Encode conference papers from Venice and Imaging the Body; modify bibliography accordingly.

Systematically review all documents on the site.

Review RA contributions weekly.

Do modern transcriptions of Varin, Cholières, and Sonnet as priorities for modernization.

I entered all of the Norse items today and half of the English versions of the names. I uploaded the file.

I revised SKng-1899-Oslo-040-01-vgNet.xml and uploaded the file.

I've been having freezes of my machine quite regularly, when Java goes nuts and eats all the CPU and memory, so I finally decided to do a dist-upgrade to see if that would fix it. Everything went smoothly, but it didn't actually solve the problem. In the end, I upgraded my Tomcat from 6.0.20.0 to 6.0.26.0, and that seems to have solved it. Must have been some kind of memory leak in Tomcat. But I've also moved the projects I'm not actively working on out of the webapps folder, to reduce the load.

I've managed to make the map sizing code relative -- MJ's page layout was done in pixels originally, but the underlying map handling is within a box that can be sized easily, so that wasn't too hard. I've also started integrating the site style a little bit, starting with the menu, which now looks a bit like the main site menu. I have to decide what components of the main menu I want to include on this page -- there isn't room for them all. Probably just Home and Map Gallery. I'll need to enable keystroke navigation somehow, to comply with our accessibility policy, and that will be quite hard. Then I have to find a good place to put the copyright/disclaimer info on the page, and find space for the metadata about the map. It's going to get a bit crowded. No room for the header graphic, unfortunately, although I'll have to try it out just to be sure.

Up at the crack of dawn to present my little talk remotely over telephone conferencing, with someone at the other end advancing my slides. A very odd experience (no feedback, no real sense of what people can see on the screen, no idea if you're going too fast or too slow). Weird. People asked on-topic questions at the end, though, so I guess even if I failed to communicate properly, the slides did at least part of the job.

• corrected a missing xml:id in surrogates in: SKng-1899-Oslo-020-01.xml
• corrected the xml:id and the jpg in facsimile in: SKng-1899-Oslo-020-02-vgNet.xml
• added Yngl to the jpg file name in facsimile in: SKng-1899-Oslo-026-01-vgNet.xml
• corrected a typo in: Nks1867-094v.ml
• corrected: SAM66-078v and SAM-79r
• entered 95 (out of 133) items into the names file with a note element to fill in later
• uploaded the names file

Fighting with the Coldesp map code -- needed to reach a point where the core was working before quitting for the day.

Met with PAB. She wants the following enhancements:

• Provenance to be truncated with an ellipsis and a click-to-expand function, at 300 characters.
• Line groups and lines in TEI code to be handled.

She's still working on the names file.