MF reported problems with people trying to log in as teachers. I checked into it and discovered that there are two teacher log-in pages in each language and both are linked to from various places on the site. Emailed PS who said he'd fix it and get rid of the duplicate pages, which he did.
April 20, 2010
JP emailed about a history of Victoria Chinatown project and his wish to have HCMC involved. I gave him the general terms and procedure for HCMC involvement and boilerplate text on who we are and what we do.
UVic's Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) is a department within the faculty of Humanities. The mandate of the HCMC is to further research, teaching and learning in the faculty of Humanities, in particular the fields of Humanities Computing and Language Learning, and those aspects of other fields of research involving audio, video or computing technology. We host a research and development office staffed with three full-time software developers which designs and creates web applications, websites, on-line databases, and application programs in collaboration with faculty members. We manage a research facility with bookable computers shared amongst all members of the faculty. Projects proposing to include the HCMC go through an internal process to determine formally the commitments of HCMC labour and resources to that proposal. The HCMC has an international reputation for the quality and range of its work, and its staff publish and present at peer-reviewed conferences interna
Took two written submissions (one from JSR and another from PD&JL), formatted them into the fields expected by the committee. Asked for and got a couple of clarifications and further details from proponents and then submitted all the paperwork to the committee for consideration
Reviewed two applications for Liddell award, made notes and discussed with Martin the next day. We focussed on use of technology to achieve academic objectives and technical qualities, assuming the rest of the panel would focus more on the quality of the content. I was unable to attend full meeting, so Martin represented both of us.
At request of dept, I've added a tertiary level of navigation which appears in the people section if the user browses to any one of the individual professor's pages. Entailed a modification to the listing code in secondaryNavbar.php and extensive change to getSectionPage.php to parse the path and figure out what values to provide for $curSection and $curSubSection
Went over summary paragraph of Judy's Job Evaluation (JJE) with her a couple of times and discussed how to highlight changes.
Read through Greg's, made a couple of suggestions on clarifications and discussed with him
Sent email to Blair in dean's office asking how to proceed.
Talked to helpdesk guys in B047 on April 1. They're now done and have left a pile of derelict equipment in the room and sent a request to the surplus people to come and get it. They're now done with the room. DS confirmed. All that's left is to change the key on the lock. Emailed AR to let him know the space is clear.
April 19, 2010
I inserted the xml:id attributes for file names and the TEI version number for SKng.
I added the affix 01 to ids for gods, giants, persons, monsters, artifacts etc. in SKng.
I corrected the Mime type from "digital/JPG" to "image/jpeg" in all the files.
I uploaded 79 thumbnails and the revised xml files for NKS 1867, SAM66, and SKng.
Stuck at home waiting for final cancellation of my flight to Europe, so didn't make it into the office until late.
Made some progress today:
- Reorganized images and XML on the server, and wrote rsync scripts to bring down changes from there to my machine so it's easy to keep up to date with PAB's changes. Also wrote script to update my local copy of the Cocoon project from my working directory.
- Added a collection.xconf file specifying some index parameters for the db.
- Wrote the search.xq file, and confirmed that it can return results from searches as XML. I still need to add an override so that it only includes the full TEI wrapper document when there's no actual search (or do I? right now, it can handle a search done through GET without AJAX, which might be a good idea).
- Began working on the thumbnail-scrolling banner for the search results. I have it showing what I want -- the images show up from the search results -- but now I have to make it scroll. There's a really nice scrolling component made with JQuery here; I think I'll take that idea, unpack it from its JQuery, and implement it in native code. I really want to avoid JQuery if I can.