It's coming together, but slowly; it's also throwing up all sorts of issues with TEI <biblStruct> that need addressing, which is fortuitous because I'm on a little ad-hoc committee addressing them...
March 24, 2010
@type attributes on various elements now have abbreviated values ("n" or "p" instead of "narrow" or "phonemic"). Updated and tested the XSLT to take account of this.
Greg and I met with network folks to discuss moving the servers and the switch for our TEF sojourn. More discussion afterwards, and plans put forward in an email.
MJ had omitted October from the list of months used to generate the search interface drop-down. Took me a while to figure it out, but an easy fix. My code needed fixing in my Version 4 folder, as well as in the test version I have in my local Tomcat; then I had to push the change up to the version running on Lettuce's Tomcat, as well as the one on Pear.
If a bibl belongs to the contents of a note, it needs to be inside the note element. Notes are block elements, so any subsequent content starts on the next line.
We have long struggled with the issue of how to provide easy access to data on the TAPoR servers for students and researchers working on projects. The ideal, especially for XML markup projects, is to have a TAPoR share mounted as a network drive; this enables oXygen to provide an easy project editing interface through "Link to external folders", and files can be opened and saved transparently on the server in this way. On Linux this is (naturally) easy. This is what I have learned from trying to do this for CC on her Mac and Windows laptops over the last two days:
- In our labs, we use taporshare.tapor.uvic.ca, which provides an SMB connection. However, this is problematic for laptops and remote locations, because SMB is insecure, and it's also blocked by default on the UVicDefault wireless network.
- Macs do not support SFTP connections out of the box.
- Oxygen promises to support opening and saving of files over SFTP, but it seems to work only for one file at a time, which makes validation difficult, and it's difficult to set it up so you can browse the folder tree on the server. After a restart, oXygen also seemed to lose the logon credentials and be unable to ask for them again, causing "Auth fail" errors. Hopeless.
- MacFuse and MacFusion (search the web) worked well for me on Snow Leopard from home, connecting to Lettuce, but were hopeless on Leopard; we had endless authentication issues, and were unable to save files to the server.
- On Windows, you can use Dokan SSHFS (search the web) to mount a share (e.g. Lettuce, or nfs.tapor.uvic.ca) over SSH. This works OK, except that the GID setting is not respected when creating new files; they end up as user:user instead of user:project. Still, it's better than nothing.
- On the Mac, the only solution we could find was to use Transmit, which costs money, but which will allow you to open a remote files over an SFTP connection. The only issue here was the problem with validation; the relative link to the schema did not work, of course, because the file was opened in oXygen from a temp folder. We were able to work around it by placing copies of schemas in the temp folder, in the right relationship (fortuitously) to the place where Transmit stashes its temporary files when you open a file from the server.
All in all, very unsatisfactory. This precludes people working remotely on our project data unless they're relatively sophisticated and can use something like subversion, can be relied upon to use a client such as WinSCP or Cyberduck correctly, or are using Linux.
Spent an hour massaging the fairly lucid (IMHO) project proposal from JS-R, with additions from myself, into the breakdown required by the project proposal form on the website. There's no idea way to do this, because all projects differ substantially and no form could really suit any project well.
March 23, 2010
Out for two hours at the dentist, stayed one hour extra, for one hour lost.
Several things emerged out of a frustrating hour:
- Macs can't do SFTP for some reason, so we have to use SMB to connect to taporshare.tapor.uvic.ca.
- When logging on, remember the prefix UVic\ before the user name.
- There's an ACL on the UVicDefault wireless setup that blocks SMB. That means Macs have no way of mounting a network share. The Help desk have promised to investigate this.
CC's laptop also has no ethernet, so it was doubly difficult to get connected.
Did a small update to the site for JS-R. Also included the update on the beta site.