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KSW found a bug in Search which gave an XQuery error sporadically. I figured out that it was caused by an erroneous assumption that there was only one <date> element in the <sourceDesc>/<bibl>. There SHOULD have been only one, but there was actually one document from 1858 that had more than one, by mistake, and any search which found that document resulted in an error. I fixed the search code to add the all-important [1] in various points in my new sorting code, and then fixed the problem document.

There were some technical difficulties today which did not allow me to connect to the server and do any editing of the 1621 sonnet. Instead, MH suggested that I compare the 1621 to the 1609 on the Mariage site to find any inconsistencies between the two. I found the following:

1) For some reason, the wallpaper with the 17th century motif that you find in the 1621 does not appear in the 1609. There's only a boring gray background in the 1609.

2) In the 1621, notes 1 and 2 only appear at the end of the document and not within the text. However, in the 1609, notes 1 to 4 appear not only at the end of the document but also within the text where you can click on each number that links to a pop-up window displaying the note.

3) This is more a question pertaining to the references rather than an inconsistency...I've noticed that in the 1621 Emily included a reference tag for each time the same word appears throughout the entire text. For instance, she encoded the word "Hymen" with ref tags every time it appeared in the text. Do we want to do this for all ref words that occur more than once or should we just encode the word the first time it appears and leave the rest?

Migrated the changes from the last few weeks over to the live db:

• Created the VIEW:

  CREATE VIEW docTypes_to_fieldTypes AS SELECT DISTINCT documents.doc_to_docTypes_id, customFieldData.cfd_to_cf_id
  FROM documents, customFieldData
  WHERE documents.doc_id = customFieldData.cfd_to_doc_id
  

• Exported the data from the customFields table in the dev db, eliminating my one integer test field which isn't needed right now, and imported it into the main db.
• Migrated all the PHP, CSS, JS and other code changes, backing up the existing setup first.

Everything appears to be working. I'm going to do some additional cosmetic changes and finishing work today, and probably migrate all of that at the end of the day.

Making a bit of a push to get through the last two articles for vol 18 now, I worked through all of the Olason text, leaving only the bibliography. After that is one more article, then we can start building the volume.

Link: http://recherche.univ-lyon2.fr/grac

Just a little report on the "mariage" conference in Lyon. Many interesting 16th-century texts were discussed, which is helpful for context even if we don't put any of them on the site. The really cool item is that the proceedings are going to be put on line, and we can include the link in the general bibliography. There was also one paper in particular on the character of Chrysalde in "L'École des femmes," whom I mention in one of the papers we're planning to have on the site in the next while, so I can suggest a link from my comments to this specific paper.

I've put the URL of the research centre (Groupe Renaissance et Âge Classique) where the articles will be posted.

More exercises failing to recognize "v" as an alternative for "u" in spelling, reported by a user.

Will be leaving early today.

...before the network was disconnected for reno changes.

Search is now functionally complete, as originally planned. I now have to think about migrating data over from the development db to the production db.