LW reports that the grad programs page now contains largely the same data as the grad students page. FTP'd into the site and found that the grad programs page had been last modified 11 Sept 08 and there was a grad programs copy page with the same date. The copy page appeared to have the correct data in it, so I renamed the corrupted grad programs page and renamed the copy page to grad_programs. LW reported that the data in the grad students page was out of date, so I appended the grad students data from the corrupted page to the grad students page and asked her to decide what to keep and what to toss.
September 18, 2008
DP enquired yesterday about archiving the data from people submitting proposals for the ASLE conference. After some consideration I proposed a simple write to tab delimited text file, which he could then import to whatever db or ss program he wanted later. Spent a couple of hours modifying a copy of one of the submission forms to clean out spurious tab and carriage returns and append the submission to a text file on the server as well as email as it always had. Sent URL to DP for his review.
Met with MJ about the new machine and sorted out a few things regarding logins, security, permissions and software.
Excellent news this morning from editors Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman that the Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2008) is now freely available online.
The online version of the text is hosted by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and is made freely available through the generosity of publisher, Blackwell Publishing.
If you haven't already done so, check out this collection of articles by some of the world's most distinguished textual researchers in the field of digital humanities. There's something in this collection for everyone, from beginners to experts, from medievalists to blogger theorists:
Main topical areas cover the history of the discipline, methodologies, and textualities.
September 17, 2008
The eduroam infrastructure has been put in place at UVic and apparently works well with iPhones. I have a geek tablet and want to use it too, but there are no good instructions for setting it up. It's worthwhile because the infrastructure is being developed all over the world at educational institutions with the intent that I can roam anywhere and get a signal using my UVic credentials.
Here's how I did it on the n810:
1) The system uses the Thawte Premium Server CA certificate - it was already installed and configured on my device, but if it isn't there, you can get it here: http://www.thawte.com/roots/index.html. The zip contains a bunch of cert files, including ThawtePremiumServerCA.cer. Import it via the Certificate Manager in the n810 control panel and ensure that the trust on the cert is set for WLAN (set in the certificate details).
2) The actual setup is best done through the control panel "Connectivity" applet.
a) Double-click on "Connectivity" and tap the "Connections" button.
b) Tap the "New" button to start the Connection setup wizard.
c) Tap "Next" and give the connection a name (doesn't matter what)
d) Tap "Next" and you will be asked if you want to scan for available WLAN networks. Answer "Yes".
e) When it finds Eduroam, tap "Next"
f) Choose "PEAP" on the next screen when it asks for the EAP type. Tap "Next".
g) When asked to "Select certificate" you will not have a choice (it will display "None"). For "EAP method" choose "EAP MSCHAPv2". Tap "Next".
h) For "User name" and "Password" use your netlinkID@uvic.ca (include the @uvic.ca part) and your NetlinkID password. Apparently you are best served by having it store your password rather than choosing "Prompt password at every login" (it appears as though there is an unresolved bug associated with this feature). Tap "Next".
i) At the next screen tap on the "Advanced" button to access a panel with a tab titled "EAP". Tap that tab and fill in the "Use manual user name" field with your NetlinID@uvic.ca info again. The connection will fail if you don't do this.
You can now hold down the control key when pressing the Do Transformations button in Transformer, and it will take input off the clipboard, process it through the transformations, and put the result back on the clipboard. That's really handy for these ad-hoc usages that I find for it in markup projects.
I'm looking at the possibility of moving away from Delphi over to Trolltech's QT platform for desktop application development, so I've spent while looking into their documentation and licensing. While it seems QT is absolutely everything we need (built-in Unicode, scripting, great widgets, cross-platform, WebKit and ECMAScript integration, SVG support, etc.), there are some serious drawbacks. One is that I'd need to learn C++, but actually that might be interesting and a good investment from the Pro-D point of view. The other drawback is that, while you can use QT for open-source development under the GPL, and you're allowed to MPL your code if you want, you can't (they say) then move that code to commercial projects; and the commercial licensing is flat-out prohibitive ($6600 US for one developer working on the three platforms). That would pretty much preclude our commercializing one of our HCMC projects (as we previously did with HotPot and Quandary), which would be a real shame.
So I'm still thinking. The platform looks SO inviting, but the price is almost insane. They obviously don't want small-scale or low-profit developers (such as the educational software crowd) to consider the platform at all as a commercial proposition.
Bios have been added for Aðalsteinsdóttir, Engilbertsson, Gunnbjörnsdóttir and Lingard, taking us up to 126 pages for the volume. Two remain outstanding, along with some French abstracts.
Got the listserv forum-apfucc set up. Went in as administrator and configured it. Largely used defaults. Created hc and dana in Guelph as administrators and got pw to them. Created hotpot@uvic.ca as user through web-based application form, confirmed that account and then used it submit a test email.
Attended meeting of HCMC committee to discuss structure of governance for HCMC, in particular responsibilities of Academic Director, role of HCMC committee (means of communication from hcmc to depts as well as supervision of activities of HCMC) and assignment of some managerial responsibilities previously done by coordinator and/or director to other staff.