The biblio for the second article is shorter than that in the first, but it has some new features (electronic sources, conference presentations) for which I've had to devise markup strategies. That's now done, although some of these strategies may change if I get responses from the TEI list on some of my questions.
August 16, 2007
This will be my last post regarding the French Website (unless I come back as a work study student in the fall or something).
I just had my final meeting with Catherine Caws and the French Department. I presented the four website versions and they decided that they will demo the following three to the rest of the department:
Original (torn edges on top and bottom w/ white background): http://web.uvic.ca/~lang02/summer07/french/www/web_pages/
Second Version (torn edges only on bottom w/ white background): http://web.uvic.ca/~lang02/summer07/french/www2/web_pages/
Third Version (torn edges on top and bottom w/ grey background):
http://web.uvic.ca/~lang02/summer07/french/www3/web_pages/
Eventually when they decide a version to go with they will be in need of faculty member pages. I will be creating a professors folder similar to the one in the new philosophy website. In this professor folder there will be folders for each professor based on the professor's last name. So the format should be: professor/caws/caws.inc
I think it would be best if the website also worked similarly to the philosophy website, where the faculty page links to another page, for example, the link could be: faculty_information.php?prof=caws and the faculty_information.php page (which would need to be created) goes and includes Catherine Caws' professor .inc file in the professor folder.
The French Department is very interested in the website maintenance abilities of the philosophy website so if on Monday when I see Stewart next and he thinks its a good idea I can provide instruction on how to bring that functionality to the French Department website for easy editing.
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Picked up a copy of the APA Style Guide from the bookstore, and began looking at differences between that and Chicago. The guide is from 2001, and is supplemented by a PDF which is only available for purchase online, relating to electronic resources; we'll need that, but right now we don't have a credit card to purchase it, and I can't find it at the library (I've written to them to ask if they have it, and how to access it).
In the meantime, I started work on marking up the second IALLT document. The reference section of this one is shorter, but it has electronic references, which the previous one didn't, and I haven't made any decisions on how to mark up URLs and last-accessed dates yet. The TEI P5 Guidelines don't have any reference to bibliographic info for electronic documents either, so it's not clear how you're supposed to mark them up. I posted a query to the TEI list.
August 15, 2007
Keeping the office open till 4.30 again. Lots to do, anyway, with no-one else here.
Spent a long time writing more explanatory material about on the markup instructions page, based on the tags used so far in the article completed today. Much more to do, but we're making progress.
Today regarding Agenda I was able to change how the time/days is displayed. Instead of [Mon 10:00 - 11:00][Tue 10:00 - 11:00][Thu 10:00 - 11:00] it now is printed to the page like this [MTR 10:00 - 11:00]. I did have a lot of difficulty controlling the following situation [Mon 10:00 - 11:00][Tue 9:00 - 11:00][Thu 10:00 - 11:00] but working on this issue for a bit I was able to produce the following print out for this situation [MR 10:00 - 11:00][T 9:00 - 11:00].
I was also able to place the title of the course on the offerings list. So on the Agenda offerings list page if the title is less than 18 characters it will display the full course title. But if the course title is more then 18 characters what it does is the following: "Introdu...Science", taking the first 7 and last 7 characters. On the printed report; however, I have left it so that it prints the full course title as there is more room because some of the columns are not printed out.
I was unable to get the professors specific course listing because I ran out of time but I will add this functionality tomorrow afternoon right after my meeting with Catherine Caws.
JT marked up the first article intended for volume 17, based on the P5 output of another article on the journal site, and sent it over. I made some fixes and documented them, then rendered it to PDF and sent it back so he can see how the final output relates to the markup. There are some oddities I'll need to research a bit in this document (for instance there's a radio broadcast that needs to go into the bibliography, and I'm not sure how to do that yet). The bulk of the work is done, though.
Completed the markup of this article, in the process expanding my documentation, and also further refining the schema so that the @type attribute on <name> tags is now restricted to a fixed value list (with a default value of "person").
To check that all instances of <abbr> tags have counterparts which are part of a <choice> tag (meaning they have an expansion somewhere in the text):
//abbr[not(.=//choice/abbr)]Yesterday I was able to implement professor specific timetables for agenda. I was able to add a drop down to the timetable view so that the user can select to display the time timetable with all professors or with a specific department faculty member. Today I plan to add this functionality to the offerings list so that a course list can be printed by professor as well. Yesterday I also worked on changing the format for the display days so that it matched the requested format from the departments. I am almost completed this task.
Also today I have a meeting with Lisa Surridge from the English department.