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Dr. Z was concerned about the menus overlapping the title when window size was small, so I've edited the CSS to reduce the font sizes of the menu and title elements, and re-jigged all the element sizing so the title bar looks OK with the changes. Waiting for approval on that -- it may need to be reduced again. CSS is nice and clean, but precise, so there are a number of changes that need to be made to padding etc. to make the font size change work properly. All my changes are commented, and original declarations commented out instead of deleted.

Chris came over to plan out the presentation. We made a basic outline; we'll flesh it out later when it's clear whether David B is going to be involved or not.

Created and sent a Contribute Connection key to Jennifer, who got going with it. After trying it for a while she asked for additional capabilities, so I opened Contribute using the Administrator Connection key, then modified the attributes on the Publisher user to allow deleting of files, uploading of non-webpage files.
I also set that user to look at only one css file (humanities_contribute.css) for styles to include in the styles dropdown. I then moved a small number of styles from humanities.css to humanities_contribute.css. I then modified all the php pages on the site to include both the css files. Any style that is in that css file will appear in the dropdown in Contribute. I'll move or add styles based on input from Jennifer.
Sent Jennifer an updated Contribute Connection key for the Publisher user on that site.

Had some back and forth with Greg and Stew about the status of the site, and then heard from Dr. Z about it. I've written back to him with a long list of questions. The first task for me is probably to write the image-rotation JavaScript, which should be simple with luck. The actual splash page seems a little confusing to me, so I've asked specifically about that page, which differs in layout from the rest of the site.

Made some final changes to the front matter on JT's instructions, then sent the PDF to the printer. We're now looking at how and where to include the Creative Commons licence information on the website. The preferred licence is this one, and it should probably be included on the About page somewhere. We need to decide whether to link to the CC site directly, or take copies in French and English of the short and full forms of the licence for our own site. The CC site probably expresses a view on that if we can find it.

It turns out that <textDesc> will absolutely not do for the document type, so I'm now looking at using an @rend attribute on the <fileDesc> element; that seems appropriate, given that the distinction is primarily being made for the purposes of rendering the output.

Lots more back and forth on this through TEI-L, along with discussion of how to handle forenames. I also marked up a large block of the bibliography for the first article, and sent a query over to the editors about one item.

Some useful feedback from Lou on the TEI list about where to encode the info relating to the journal issue and volume. As a result, I've now moved the journal title itself into <seriesStmt>, along with the other related info:

           <seriesStmt>
                <title level="j">IALLT Journal</title>
                <idno type="vol">39</idno>
                <idno type="issue">1</idno>
                <respStmt>
                    <resp>editor</resp>
                    <name>
                        <forename>Heather</forename>
                        <surname>McCullough</surname>
                    </name>
                    <name>
                        <forename>Douglas W.</forename>
                        <surname>Canfield</surname>
                    </name>
                </respStmt>
            </seriesStmt>

I have a couple of issues still in discussion on the list, including how to encode the text type; I think the best solution would be this:

   <profileDesc>
      <textDesc n="article"></textDesc>
   </profileDesc>

where the @n attribute is constrained to a list of fixed values by a modification in the ODD file. Still waiting for feedback from the list on this.

Finally, I wrote to the IALLT folks to check whether it would be OK to use a block of their metadata in the TEI Guidelines, once all this is agreed on.

Created pages and ported information for the researchers section of the Humanities site. I've pretty well done all I can do on that site for the moment. Jennifer is working on the resource handbook, and I've no content or instructions on the Alumni/Community and Chairs/Staff sections.

Also updated a few navigation and other elements throughout the site based on conversation with Claire.