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I moved the humanities site from the dev directory in their account to the production directory. This caused a number of hassles with Contribute, so in the future I recommend:
- find the _mm directory in the root of the moved site and delete it (that dir contains a lot of information about Contribute users and settings which are no longer valid)
- in Contribute, remove any connections to the site, then create a new connection and establish yourself as administrator (deleting the _mm dir on the server causes Contribute to think anyone can be an administrator)
- in Contribute, ensure each user has the privileges you want, then create connection key(s) for each of the kinds of users you want
- test the keys, then issue them

The new Humanities site launched today. http://web.uvic.ca/humanities

The site addresses the following priorities:
- primary organization by intended audience
- restrict access to chairs and secretaries for certain content
- ease content maintenance by dept secretary

We created the site within the following technical constraints:
- site based on the university's templates
- content editable in Contribute by dept secretary
- navigation, banner, footer centralized; rendered by php includes, editable in text editor by dept secretary or HCMC as appropriate

Instructions on wildcard searching are now on the search page, in a small font (specified CSS for all three styles).

If you're a member of the project and you'd like to be able to participate in this blog, let me know and I'll add you as a user.

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I'm on late duty today.

Used my ODD file to generate a new schema from Roma, and compared it with the previous version. Apart from the date/@value attribute changing to @when, which I expected, another change has rendered <hi> tags inside <rendition> tags invalid in the header, which screws up my Image Markup code. Wrote to the TEI list about this; it seems like a silly change. I can't release another IMT until it's either undone, or if it's permanent, until I've found another way to encode that information and updated the tool to handle it.

However, I did write the four XSLT conversion files to transform older data files to the 1.6 format, and tested the last of them; that's out of the way. If the problem above is not fixed by changes in TEI, then I'll have to add to these files.

The thumbnail feature discussed in a previous post is an excellent idea, so I adapted the SaveScaledBitmap routine in mdhGraphics.pas to create SaveScaledBitmapRegion, which takes more parameters so that a region of the source image can be specified, as well as a target width. This works well in testing; now I need to create a GUI for it. I imagine this: "Create thumbnail -< from complete image", and "-< from selected area", then a dialog box where you can specify the output size. Then one of the two routines above is invoked, either the former or the latter respectively.

As suggested in the preceding post, it is possible to specify the TKernelResampler for the bitmap in the editing environment, meaning that scaling the bitmap is much better. It doesn't seem any slower either, on my machine, but we should test this on some slower machines to see how well it does with less horsepower to call on.