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Isolation log week 48

Work done from home and in the office 2021-02-16 to 2021-02-19 (4-day week)

Total: 28.50 hours
G & T hours: +0.50

Tuesday 2021-02-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: build comprehensive 5-language stopword list for TEI Guidelines test project, and fix weighting rules.
0.25 hours: TEI: Raised one ticket, handled a pull request.
1.50 hours: HCMC Staff meeting.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: More tweaks and a rebuild of TEI Guidelines search; discussions on tickets; consultation with GN on Myths implementation.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Work on egXML validation, although primarily on figuring out how/what we could validate.
2.50 hours: Wendat: Training session with CBR, on Cayuga transcription/encoding; first timesheet submission for CBR; setup of new project file and configuration of two rows of alt/option key assignments based on ML's keyboard maps. Much more to do here.

Total: 7.00 hours

Wednesday 2021-02-17

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Fix issue with multiple underlines in Cayuga; fix bug in rendering of modern dictionary; create second XPR file with identical content to the base file except for code templates; finish code templates for Alt/Option key assignments.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Graves: Add ssHighlight feature to Graves; this revealed bug in fragmentId handling; raise issue for that on staticSearch, create branch, implement and test fix, push changes; find another old bug in Graves rendering, which I'm still working on.
1.00 hours: Endings: Discussion with Lib folks and SA on planning for Graves migration, and issues arising out of the potential loss of project domain, as well as edition versioning.
1.00 hours: Keats: Fix obscure XPath bug revealed when the same image was linked twice from the same context; clarify vagueness in project proposal for SA.
0.75 hours: Graves: Fix bug with import of unwanted handNotes into entries that didn't link to them.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2021-02-18

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Another batch of keystroke shortcuts, with some questions.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Moved some obsolete stuff around; fixed some bad paths in processing; set up edition pointers on live site following discussion on how to cite by edition.
2.00 hours: Wendat: more work on keyboard and back-and-forth with ML; fix for invalid file and explanation for CBR.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Rewrote citation code to incorporate edition information and new URLs; project meeting.
1.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: closed a couple of tickets, raised another and fixed it after discussion with GN and results from his implementing of search on Myths.
0.25 hours: Keats: More discussion and research on georectifing maps and creating network graphs.
0.25 hours: ColDesp: tweaks to staticSearch config to use paging but allow for more results than default.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2021-02-19

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: TEI: Weekly meeting with NC and SB, working on oNVDL issues in build process. Raised ticket on obsolete legacy-compat doctype for HTML5.
0.75 hours: Endings: Beginning work on a joint conference or paper submission with Lib folks.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Diagnosing issues with not-in-dictionary part of build report.
2.50 hours: Keats: Integration of new staticSearch features, including hit-highlighting, which is tricky because of overlap with other page-load functionality.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Began preparing for project to pick up again: processed Forget-Me-Not db changes into TEI, and implemented linkToFragmentId from staticSearch.
1.00 hours: DVPP/Academic: Rewrote sections of jTEI submission in response to reviews; added references and expanded sections.

Total: 7.50 hours

Posting hours from isolation log 2021-02-08 to 2021-02-12.

Isolation log week 47

Work done from home and in the office 2021-02-08 to 2021-02-12

Total: 38.50 hours
G&T hours: +1.50

Monday 2021-02-08

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: TEI: Bugfixing fallout from merge of ruby branch into dev, especially as relating to LaTeX/PDF build. Took up half of Sunday too.
0.25 hours: HCMC Labs: Updated and tested two machines required for this afternoon's training.
2.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Rewrote the ODD file, converting elementSpec descs into remarks, then making use of specDescs and our preprocessing step to copy the appropriate content into the body of the document before building. Incorporated highlighting into the built documentation, and updated what's new.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Initial SVN and Oxygen training for CBR.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Pushing forward with ticket on disallowing straight apostrophes; fixed many instances, and tweaked Schematron; started investigating why our scripted Schematron validation doesn't work. Also implemented toolbox links to containing editions, which is half of the edition links ticket.

Total: 7.25 hours

Tuesday 2021-02-09

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: checking and merging changes from JT; discussion of possible limiting mechanism for massive result sets.
0.25 hours: TEI: Discussions on version numbering and XPointer schemes.
1.50 hours: HCMC staff meeting.
2.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting; addition of static search mechanism for base lemdo-dev project, to make documentation more accessible.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Added pc to the schema, with custom @type for line-leading quotation marks signalling blockquote, and added XSLT and CSS handling for it. Waiting on build to confirm functionality.
1.00 hours: HCMC/Maint: reworked VCS log chart tool to use a more comprehensible bar chart, and tested with various configurations; fixed a bug with the end date; other tweaks.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.

Total: 8.50 hours

Wednesday 2021-02-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Check build of line-leading quote encoding from yesterday; tweak CSS to make it look right; add documentation, close ticket.
0.50 hours: Academic: Final proof of jTEI article on using ODD for HTML, due to be published soon.
1.25 hours: Wendat: Modified and tested content models for entry, form and sense elements in preparation for cognate work; set up new site location at publicly-usable URL.
1.50 hours: ColDesp: Implemented offensive language warning feature for document abstracts.
0.50 hours: ColDesp, MyNDIR, LEMDO, Mariage, Scancan, Endings/staticSearch: Obscure JS bug found in ColDesp was inherited from staticSearch, and fixes had to be made in all repos.
3.25 hours: Wendat: Project meeting re cognate workflow and encoding; created TEI file for modern dictionary and sample entry encoding, with list of characters, ready for CBR to work on. Some changes to schema and build process to include this file in the build, although we won't link it.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Found and (hopefully) fixed a bug in anthology rendering.

Total: 8.50 hours

Thursday 2021-02-11

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: MoEML: Debug build break with KLB; fix schema to prevent future instances (due to `@style` on the body element).
2.50 hours: LEMDO: Enhance ssHighlight JS so that if a hit is inside a note, it will pop up the note; in the process, noticed a stack of failing video/image links in FV that were pointing through sip: prefixed URLs, which I commented out because they don't resolve to anything useful; then noticed that the remediation of the annotations had not been completed, and there are 40+ annotations still pinned to tlns instead of anchors. JJ will assign this to SM.
0.50 hours: TEI: Checked two pull requests, one on jTEI Oxygen PDF build bug (merged) and one on Guidelines link-checking with W3C checker; on the latter, installed what's needed on my Jenkins, but didn't yet configure the job config, because I want to see how it runs on the main server.
0.50 hours: TEI: Raised a number of tickets arising out of ruby work, to be addressed after the current release is done.
1.50 hours: DVPP/Academic: Started on revisions to jTEI article from TEI 2019 conference.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Fixes for Schematron warnings introduced inadvertently through new ruby elements in TEI; rewrite of rule for ellipses, resulting in new errors caught.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Fixes to build breaks caused by misconfiguration of staticSearch exclusion for a-z index page.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2021-02-12

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Discussions and investigations of tln survivals in FV annotations.
1.50 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB and NC to look at PDF build and Noto font possibilities, and to try to fix an issue with ODD to Lite conversion.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Repeated rounds of fixing Schematron and documents to remove unwanted ellipses, and tune the rules to avoid catching them where they should be allowed.
3.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch/TEI: Setting up the multilingual TEI Guidelines as a testbed project in the staticSearch repo, with the intention of using it for our own larger-scale testing before a release, but also to provide a properly-searchable version of the Guidelines.

Total: 6.75 hours

Posting hours from isolation log 2021-02-01 to 2021-02-05.

Version 6.7b of Claire Carlin's wonderful digital anthology Le mariage sous L'Ancien Régime has been published, bringing new enhancements to the search page, including stemming and keyword-in-context links, as well as highlighting of the target search term found documents.

Isolation log week 46

Work done from home and in the office 2021-02-01 to 2021-02-05.

Total hours: 35.25
G&T: +0.25

Monday 2021-02-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: review pagination branch changes by JT and comment.
0.25 hours: TEI: Move/update poll on position of new chapter prose for Ruby; tweak ODD file; create new branch for the work.
0.50 hours: Scancan: Editor's corrections to a review; trawl through previous practice re quote/gloss rendering to answer query.
1.75 hours: TEI: Debugging build process issue with NVDL ahead of the coming release.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Implemented upload target for external links files; archived obsolete files relating to previous approaches to linkchecking; added documentation page for link checking and remediation; fixed some links.
0.50 hours: ColDesp: Investigation and discussion of location/rendering of IP content warning.
1.00 hours: Mariage: Following integration of new translations of search instructions, built, tested and released version 6.7b. This concludes the current round of programming work on this project.
1.00 hours: TEI: Spec file for ruby, rt, and rb elements in new branch; fix for a couple of issues in the separate test repo; report of validation issues with Spec files to Council.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2021-02-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Landscapes/Endings/staticSearch: Test pagination implementation by JT now building in Landscapes repo.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Added rudimentary handling for sampling gaps in dramatic extracts. More to do here, and more discussion to be had.
0.25 hours: ColDesp: Discussion of placement/content of IP disclaimer.
1.75 hours: HCMC Staff meeting.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Prepped incoming vol 28 article; set up XML file; did metadata, abstract, and bibliography.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Implemented asterism dinkus.
2.50 hours: Wendat: Workstudy interviews with ML; review/edit of script for presentation slides; project meeting.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2021-02-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: ColDesp: Debug build break and fix invalid file; checking into implementation of IP disclaimer and implications.
1.50 hours: TEI: Reorganized Core chapter and integrated Ruby prose and specs; created new build job on Jinks; further tweaks per proofers.
3.50 hours: Scancan: Completed encoding of new article; built site and tested; removed scrollToTextFragment and rewrote previous customizations to take advantage of new ssMark functionality. Published site and wrote to HT with comments on the new article.
1.00 hours: Endings: Completed first draft of intro to DHQ piece, created an outline for the rest, hived off the references, and referred to JT for comments.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: More detailed documentation of some elements, looking forward to an auto-generated config-file generation tool.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2021-02-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: TEI: Edits/fixes to Ruby chapter work and specifications per feedback from Council.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Updates to CSS to provide cleaner formatting for heading info in semi-diplomatic text rendering.
1.50 hours: TEI: Build schema and validate all examples for ruby; add brief sections to other chapters pointing to new section.
1.00 hours: Maint: Various discussions, tests and interactions for new Tomcat server.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Meeting with Songscapes folks re new anthology.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Project meeting and follow-up.
0.50 hours: Keats: Working with KB on draft of project proposal.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Debugging build break; handling queries and tickets.
0.25 hours: Wendat: In-document discussions on presentation for ICLDC.

Total: 7.75 hours

Friday 2021-02-05

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: TEI: Edits to ruby work per reviews and extra proofing; meeting with NC and SB to discuss Schematron validation issue with oNVDL.
3.25 hours: Maint/Documentation: Completed first working implementation of multi-repository commit parser, which creates a chart of commits for a specific user over a specific date range. This is going to be a huge time-saver for projects tracking their progress.

Total: 5.50 hours

Posting hours from isolation log 2021-01-25 to 2021-01-29.

Isolation log week 45

Work done from home and in the office 2021-01-25 to 2021-01-29.

Total hours: 36.25
G&T: +1.25

Monday 2021-01-25

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Some debugging of build breaks; implemented a ticket to provide a document sort key for filter-only searches.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Discussion of handover options and HCMC support.
0.50 hours: TEI: Work on Ruby ticket.
0.50 hours: Endings: Drafted intro section to DHQ piece.
5.00 hours: Mariage/Endings/staticSearch: Rewrote the JS French stemmer from scratch, based on the XSLT; got the result down to only 87 errors in the 20,000+ tests, but the last few are proving very obscure and difficult.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2021-01-26

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Prep for team meeting later.
0.50 hours: TEI: Correspondence and ticket posts on ruby proposal.
1.50 hours: HCMC staff meeting.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Addition of new diagnostic output page listing abbreviations tagged as Latin that may be Wendat.
3.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch/Mariage: Finished and tested the JS French stemmer.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Project meeting and follow-up.

Total: 7.75 hours

Wednesday 2021-01-27

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Kernel updates, reboots and various complexities.
1.00 hours: Mariage/Endings/staticSearch: Testing the Jenkins build of Mariage with French stemming included; drafting English versions of possible search page explanatory material.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Investigation of compiled JS version of Snowball stemmers, and discussion with JT of possible ways we might use the Java lib from XSLT and the JS from the search page, to get the full benefit of all 29 stemmers available in Snowball.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Discussion on image rendering; addition of documentation for halfWidth images, missing for some reason; some reorganization of the repo; discussion on possible major reorg since eXist is now no longer in the picture.
2.00 hours: TEI: Work on the ruby ticket, including a first draft of the introductory Guidelines section, posted for comments.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Answered a couple of questions; did preliminary work on a ticket to add edition links to all texts appearing in editions.
0.50 hours: Moses: Meeting with ECH re fate of webapp and print dictionary.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Updating documentation to catch up with new features and better prepare for the next release.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2021-01-28

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Discussions on sourceDesc contents and pointing to BIBL1 entries.
1.00 hours: TEI: Work on Ruby proposal and prose draft.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Cleaning up old branches and triaging tickets; more details added to documentation.
1.50 hours: TEI: Stylesheets working group meeting.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Implemented ticket on emphasis styling.
2.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch/MyNDIR: Implemented staticSearch issue #114 (add query string in search param to allow for target page highlighting) in a test branch, with an example JS module that does the highlighting; switched MyNDIR to this branch and added custom JS to handle highlighting even when in hidden popup content.
0.75 hours: Mariage: Implemented new staticSearch highlighting for testing, and removed some obsolete code.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2021-01-28

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB and NC to work on ruby issue ahead of Council meeting tomorrow.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Prep and interview with prospective WS student.
4.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Discussions with GN of needs for Myths project that will become feature requests; completion of highlight feature work, merged by JT; documentation of that in the dev branch; switching of Mariage and MyNDIR to dev branch and tweaks to CSS and JS in those projects. Discovery of edge case problem when testing with Despatches; rewrote sample JS and implementations in all three projects to solve the problem.

Total: 7.00 hours

Posting hours from isolation log 2021-01-18 to 2021-01-22.

Claire Carlin's well-known and ground-breaking digital anthology Le mariage sous L'Ancien Régime, which is programmed and maintained by HCMC, has today moved to an all-static edition following Endings principles and using the staticSearch engine. This marks the eighth project to have an all-static publication as part of Endings.