Added Helena to the Mariage group, and made her a user on the blog. She finished doing the transcription of the text on the first two images, and those files are now on the server (and backed up). We did some basic markup intro, with <lg> and <l> tags; we'll do a bit more tomorrow. Greg set up Cilantro so that the SAN directory is mounted as drive M: when H logs on.
September 12, 2007
CC supplied a list of truncated / normalized titles, so I've added those to the files; the TOC page looks much better now. There are still one or two titles which are not too long, but which have traditional capitalization rather than sentence case. I can do those off my own bat when I get a chance.
Trish dropped by to discuss strategies for markup of multiple images, linking different annotations on different images.
Set up Helena to work on the two images we've prepared so far, using the Image Markup Tool. She's doing text transcription first; then we'll go back and look at the tagging (paragraphs, linebreaks, line groups etc.), and after that she'll move on to the other transcription categories. She's working on local copies on the lab machine, pending sysadmin's adding her netlink id to the mariage group.
Me on lates yesterday.
September 11, 2007
Stayed late for a project meeting in the library.
Made a couple of tweaks to the site on the secretary's instructions, over the phone.
Meeting with a number of people from faculty and from the library about putting the Colonial Correspondence online. This project needs some discussion, and I think it should be a priority for us. I'll need to talk to EG-W and the R & D team about it.
Converting between CSS and XSL attribute sets in XSLT is necessary for storing styles in the db, and a bit fiddly to do manually, so I've been working on a Java app to handle it. CSS to attribute-sets is working, and I'm halfway through the reverse. This code may be repurposed in a Java library that could be called from a Cocoon pipeline, as part of the editor's GUI.
There is an app called AdjustDuo.exe in the install bundle which kind-of almost does an OK job, but so far I have had to hack duo.cfg on every chipset we've had.
Here's how:
1. Start Media Assistant (Duo) so that a temp.cfg file gets created.
2. Close Duo.
3. Rename Duo.exe to Duo.xxx to prevent it starting.
4. Open two instances of the Windows sound mixer; one for volume and one for recording. Make sure that all necessary volume/record controls are visible.
a) Start a program source in Lab 300 teacher's station and press the manual button.
b) Adjust playback line-in and main volumes on student station using the Windows mixer.
c) Select record line-in from the mixer and record the program with the Windows Sound
Recorder. Then mute the playback line-in and play the recording back and adjust
record line-in.
d) Stop program transfer by pressing the manual button.
5. Adjust playback mic sidetone level by speaking and listening your own voice.
6. Start a wav file with mediaplayer and adjust playback waveout.
7. Start a rmi file with mediaplayer and adjust playback midi.
8. Start a CD track and adjust playback CD audio.
9. Start Sound Recorder, record your speaking, play it back and adjust record mic accordingly.
10. Rename Media Assistant back to Duo.exe and launch it.
11. Rename temp.cfg to duo.cfg.
12. You can use this same file in Lab 300\Master folder by renaming it as Lab300.cfg
Further hacking can be done using the following guide:
The various sections of the duo.cfg file can be manually configured. Numeric values range from 0 - 65535. Duo must be shut down when editing this file.
[RECORD VOLUME] *Note that these are recording volumes. It is possible to have playback too loud during transfer, but too quiet when replayed from local disk.
LINEIN=5000 *sets the recording level for incoming audio.
MIC=50000 *sets the recording level for student generated files.
[PLAY VOLUME]
LINEIN=15000 *adjusts volume levels for incoming transfers (such as tapes and audio CDs)
MIC=5000 *adjusts student microphone sidetone volume when the student is in control
CD=26025 *adjusts volume of CDs played on the student station
MAIN=21000 *adjusts all volumes simultaneously.
WAVEOUT=20000 *sets volume of media files played back on the student station