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Isolation log week 12:
Work done from home 2020-006-01 to 2020-06-05.

Week 12 total hours: 37.75

G & T hours: 2.75

Monday 2020-06-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Tweak punctuation handling for quoted glosses; request decisions on rendering for stage directions embedded in prose speeches.
1.50 hours: Moses: Working on preprocessor that removes persNames and references to/from them.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Project meeting.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Timesheet gathering and submission.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Fix for broken build due to minor error in LS's learning-by-doing Schematron and XSLT changes.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Some ad-hoc diagnostics focusing on specific rhyme and sonic device encoding issues; discussion of same; fixes and summary.
1.00 hours: AdaptiveDB: Diagnose and fix problems resulting from upgrade to new MySQL on Loquat; test fixes.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Debugging problem with drop-cap CSS (not figured out yet); discussions on notated music.
0.75 hours: Moses: discussions about sort order in Eng-Nx glossary, and implementing/testing decisions; more discussions on purging of persName entries, refs and links.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-06-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: TEI: Stylesheets ticket triaging/labelling with SB, PS and EBB.
1.75 hours: HCMC Zoom staff meeting.
1.00 hours: Moses: Fix bug in persName-stripping code, and move on to the next challenge.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Discussion of square brackets in quotes, and implementation of decision to abandon diagnostic that's doing nothing useful.
0.25 hours: Housekeeping: backups, emails, etc.
2.00 hours: Moses: Finish pre-processing step that removes persNames and associated information, reformatting prose around missing bits. Rewrite build code to remove work now done in preprocessing. Add more info/diagnostic output to build process. Discussion with SK around how all this works and what it reveals.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2020-06-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Project Endings: Prep / drafting premeditated tweets for Saturday's presentation. Follow-up emails with JT.
1.25 hours: ColDesp: Changes to search engine filters suggested by GL; debugging issue with diagnostics.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Create SVG cover component templates, and write instructions for creating a fresh cover. Rework vol 27 cover to test out instructions.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Figure out encoding approach to handle drop-cap combined with hanging indent, and report to the team.
1.00 hours: MyNDIR: Change rendering of biblio entries; debug and fix an issue with sequencing of biblio entries and rendering of repeated author with 3-em dash.
1.25 hours: MoEML: Training session for LS, introducing Ant and reviewing last week's work.
0.50 hours: LOI: Investigating Japanese tokenizers (Sudachi, mecab, and others) to prepare for meeting with JT on Friday.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: PDF build: fixed bug which reversed numbers in localCit pointers, made foreign elements italic, suppressed the lexical notes, and rebuilt and uploaded the three PDFs.
0.50 hours: Moses: Email check-in with SK about remaining tasks to be completed and status of current work.

Total: 8.75 hours

Thursday 2020-06-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: DVPP/Maint: Migration of DBs to new MySQL host: updates to PHP, testing, backups, rewriting of ant management code.
1.00 hours: Moses: Adding missing subscript 1 and 2 characters to four fonts required for the PDF generation.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meetings.
2.75 hours: Wendat: Harvesting, tagging and rendering 189 reconstructed form tables from ML's dissertation; project meeting.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2020-06-05

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: With SB, work on Stylesheets issue 201.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Checking current PDFs, raising issue of bibl references, fixing quote formatting issue.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Encoded another set of reconstructed forms; now up to 345 out of 570.
1.50 hours: Moses: New content model for def element, and fixes to errors found by it; tried and backed out of new content model for seg, but fixed many errors it found; waiting for ECZH and SK to answer queries on other issues arising.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Switching attribute and class name; planning and laying out the methods for pluggable tokenizing and stemming; Updates/fixes for tomorrow's presentation; discussion of wildcard search plan and requirements; cross-merging of various branches of the repo.

Total: 7.00 hours

From work log during week 10 of working from home (2020-05-25 to 2020-05-29): + 2 hours.

Isolation log week 11:
Work done from home 2020-05-25 to 2020-05-29.

Week 11 total hours: 37

G & T hours: +2

Monday 2020-05-25

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Moses: Write, test and apply transformation to switch m-MID to m-UNC when immediately preceding a lexical suffix.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Project meeting, planning for 6.4 release.
1.00 hours: Moses: Implement page references for cross-references between roots and stems in the root-based index, per SK/ECZH request last week.
2.50 hours: MoEML: Rationalize div/@type atts and fix invalid files; devise new methods for simple encoding of pics and related blocks in born-digital files; fix large number of unwanted uses of @style in born-digital; other tweaks and rationalizations for planned release.
0.50 hours: Moses: Correspondence on cross-references; investigation of change in behaviour in diagnostics; fix for the problem.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Debugging build breakages, discussion with RAs on how to respond to them.
1.50 hours: Moses: Changes to PDF output, to include baseGlossContent notes in two places but suppress in a third.

Total: 8.00 hours

Tuesday 2020-05-26

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: TEI Stylesheets ticket triage/labelling with EBB.
1.50 hours: HCMC Blue Jeans meeting.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Setup of master document for vol 27; creation of empty editor documents to be completed; setup of fonts on my local machine for SVG cover (to be documented); setup of vol 27 cover art SVG.
1.00 hours: JTEI Issue 12: Final proofing of last three pieces to be published; drafting of announcement to TEI-L; request for publication to RVDB.
0.50 hours: Scancan: A bit of documentation on conver generation; adding fonts required for cover to the repo.
0.25 hours: Moses: Figuring out how to implement the latest feature request, which will require a shift to Saxon 10/XSLT 3. Needs doing anyway.

Total: 7.00 hours

Wednesday 2020-05-27

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Catching up with team emails and questions from last night; helping trainee debug XSLT issue.
0.75 hours: Moses: Switch from old Saxon to Saxon 10.1; deal with feedback throughout XSLT libs; fix rendering issue that prompted the change.
1.50 hours: staticSearch: New branch for work on wildcards; function to turn wildcard token to regex; fix for image display bug.
3.50 hours: Moses: Investigation/compilation of statistics relating to the use of root morphemes in personal name entries, in preparation for PDF processing change to exclude more of such entries. Creation of pre-processing step in PDF build process, still not finished. Discovery and analysis of several issues with the ODD/schema dating back to an RA's work and an old TEI bug; remedies and discussions.
0.50 hours: TEI: discussion on various tickets, mailing list threads, and Slack discussions relating to our use of prefixDef and other issues.

Total: 7.50 hours

Thursday 2020-05-28

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: DB migration: testing of new server after RAM allocation, encounter with bug, shelving of migration, informing LW and DVPP team.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Debugging a build break; explaining the situation and suggesting a solution to the team.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Adding and testing Schematron rules and QuickFixes for auto-tagging reconstructed forms. Not everything working yet.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting and follow-up proposal for stress marking notation.
0.50 hours: MoEML/LEMDO: Interacting with team dealing with issues on Skype etc.; svn access and other housekeeping.
3.00 hours: Wendat: Extract 26 reconstructed form tables from dissertation as test data; write, test and debug Schematron QuickFix to tag them automatically; tweak existing Schematron for clarity; project meeting; rewrite content model of div to allow text in RNG so the only error is the one from our Schematron, allowing easy application of QuickFix.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2020-05-29

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Housekeeping: Remount Squash encrypted drive; catch up with email.
0.50 hours: Moses: Fix encoding issue that used to be valid but is no longer due to TEI change; rebuild and test.
1.50 hours: TEI: With SB, working on TEI Stylesheets test builds, broken by recent updates to att.lexicographic.*.
3.00 hours: Scancan: Rewrite of PDF TOC-generation code to handle different approaches to content sequence and grouping. Rewrite of article title page rendering (standalone and corpus) to enable footer to expand if author bios are too large. New site version published.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Training of LS: intro to Schematron and discussion of first Schematron task.
1.50 hours: Moses: Rewrite content model of sense element to prevent unwanted variation in structure, and fix errors found as a result. Rewrite algorithm for generating Eng-Nx dictionary listing to take account of sense-disambiguating @n attributes.

Total: 7.50 hours

From work log during week 10 of working from home (2020-05-19 to 2020-05-22): + 1.5 hours.

Isolation log week 10:
Work done from home 2020-05-19 to 2020-05-22. (Four-day week)

Week 10 total hours: 29.5

G & T hours: +1.5

Tuesday 2020-05-19

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Two of three timesheets submitted.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Lay out H5 referencing issue and options for a decision by JJ; fix Schematron rule re part-lines; fix processing of punctuation needing to be pulled into quoted strings; add handling for gloss element; lay out duplicate gloss issue for team comments.
3.00 hours: JTEI Issue 12: Next round of proofing corrections on final article; online final pass with KT, and request for publication of last three components of the issue for RVDB.
1.75 hours: HCMC Blue Jeans meeting, and subsequent testing of Google Meet with GN.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Per PAB, add image count to gallery page.
1.00 hours: Francotoile: Initial work on plan for staticization (see /static in repo).

Total: 7.5 hours

Wednesday 2020-05-20

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Prep for training session this morning.
1.00 hours: FacsViewer/ColDesp: More tweaking and testing on the possibly ill-fated issue_6 branch.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Training session on svn for new users.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Corrections to three articles per authors/editor; build and publish site.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Online training session for LS (Assistant Junior Programmer).
1.50 hours: MyNDIR: Rewrite of the index page to make it accessible as a full list and through a menu of letters.

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2020-05-21

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Rewrite processing of Latin abbreviations to collapse forms differing only in case and final period.
0.50 hours: ProD: Reading up on what's coming in ES 2020, and proposals for XSLT 4.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Lots of work on encoding of reconstructed forms; stuck on a broken Schematron rule right now.
1.00 hours: MyNDIR: Rework layout of image pages to allow experimentation with side-by-side view; fix issue with bibliography; debug issue with bad ref.
1.25 hours: Wendat: Weekly project meeting on Blue Jeans.
1.75 hours: Wendat: Split documentation into separate files, since it's now so large.
0.25 hours: Moses: Rebuild PDF, look at incoming wish-list.

Total: 8.00 hours

Friday 2020-05-22

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Wendat: [Mostly done last night] Set up new Jenkins job; fix build issues; report and explain to the team.
1.00 hours: TEI: Working on a long-standing bug in Test2 with SB. Found the problem; solution to be implemented soon.
0.50 hours: Wendat: fix image scaling bug in facs rendering; tweak to CSS.
0.50 hours: Moses: First work on a list of changes to the PDF build required by SK and ECZH.
1.25 hours: Maint: Zoom meeting with LW from sysadmin: test migration of VPN db, setup of dump script and cron job; speed testing of Loquat vs Mango.
0.50 hours: TEI: Implemented bugfix planned earlier in the day (Issue 435) and closed issue.
2.25 hours: Scancan: Encoded the whole of the final article for vol 27.

Total: 7.00 hours

From work log during week 9 of working from home (2020-05-11 to 2020-05-15): + 1.25 hours.

Isolation log week 9:
Work done from home 2020-05-11 to 2020-05-15.

Week 7 total hours: 36.25

G & T hours: 1.25

Monday 2020-05-11

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
4.00 hours: LEMDO PDF: Rewrite code to generate in-text and running headers per decisions of publisher and board; rewrite rendering and TOC generation for consistency irrespective of editors' variant practices; fix title page verso rendering; general commenting/code cleanup.
0.50 hours: MyNDIR: Debug webapp problem for PAB; fix Jenkins log parser.
2.00 hours: Endings: Work on upcoming DHSI video presentation with JT; creation of first broken-out diagram and first few slides.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Debug and fix problem with data inadvertently deleted from XML file. Recovered from svn.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Programmer training for LS: emails and background research to clarify the difference between Turtle prefixed identifiers and XML QNames.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Updating metadata in TEI files from periodicals for Keepsake, Macmillan, Nineteenth Century and Once a Week.

Total: 8.00 hours.

Tuesday 2020-05-12

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
3.00 hours: LEMDO: Reworking documentation on anchors and pointers; debugging and fixing duplicated title in documentation pages. Rebuilding PDFs.
0.50 hours: MoEML AJP training: multiple emails on the definition of QNames.
1.00 hours: HCMC Blue Jeans meeting.
2.00 hours: JTEI Issue 12: Proofing/copyediting of last article. Half done.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Start of work on second process diagram.

Total: 7 hours

Wednesday 2020-05-13

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: ColDesp: Response to JL's proofing of the site; fixes to bugs reported by him.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Updated metadata in XML from SQL db in 6 periodicals. Fixed fallout from duplicate instances.
1.50 hours: HCMC tickets with LW and GN.
1.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: completed diagrams and images for process part of presentation; added slide notes.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Online tutorial for LS on Skype.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Debugging and working around most of the issues arising out of combinations of rhyme, corrections and notes.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Debugging overnight build break and devising alternative approach to sp/@who validation with TEH.
0.25 hours: JTEI Issue 12: Entering author's proofing corrections for last article; handling pull request fixing my bug report.

Total: 7.25 hours

Thursday 2020-05-14

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: FacsViewer/ColDesp: implemented new feature to allow thumbnail, regular, and large-size options. Corresponding addition to tutorial; completion of documentation of all class properties and rebuild of documentation.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Rewrite Schematron rule to allow for format/indent spaces; fix display bug with dashed border; add XSLT handling for simple quotations.
0.75 hours: FacsViewer: complete issue #4 with new documentation and close ticket, after testing another approach which turned out to be impractical for speed reasons.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Various correspondence on meeting scheduling and training; work on Schematron issue.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Setting up new users on SVN training repo; reworking handout for session; correspondence on preparation for training session.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Encoding reconstructed form examples for meeting discussion.
1.75 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.

Total: 8.00 hours

Friday 2020-05-15

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: FacsViewer: Finish issue #3 by adding documentation on using external JS objects.
0.75 hours: Academic: Final proofing of my JTEI issue 13 article on ODD for HTML.
0.50 hours: Maint: Following Saxon 10.1 release, checked all fixed bugs to see if any require us to update urgently; seems not, so will wait for a few days before updating projects.
1.00 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB to work on optimizations for TEI Stylesheets Test2.
0.75 hours: ColDesp: Fixes and enhancements suggested by JL on his review of the new site.
0.50 hours: Endings: Read through and comments on CC's French paper.
2.00 hours: FacsViewer/ColDesp: First pass through Issue 6 rewrite to provide features required in ColDesp.

Total: 6.00 hours

Isolation log week 8:
Work done from home 2020-05-04 to 2020-05-08.

Week 8 total hours: 35

G & T hours: 0

Monday 2020-05-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: DVPP timesheets; rebuild project stats.
3.50 hours: LEMDO: Added processing pass to expand local citation pointers; debugging and associated Schematron rules and discussions.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Retrieve honorific from db data for personography entry; output in web contexts.
0.75 hours: DVPP: New diagnostic to report instances of straight quotes in db data; better remediation when using that data in XML.
2.50 hours: FacsViewer/ColDesp: Rewrite of FacsViewer rendering system so that it rapidly retrieves a subset of images around the target image and then fills in the others afterwards, to improve responsiveness in large image collections.

Total: 8.00 hours.

Tuesday 2020-05-05

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: LEMDO PDF: Link-checking transformation for encoders, bugfixes in Rho texts, better escaping of LaTeX special chars in text nodes, tweaks to character list rendering, rebuilds/uploads of latest PDFs.
1.50 hours: HCMC Blue Jeans meeting.
2.00 hours: FacsViewer: Refactor a little, add detailed tutorial, complete/rebuild documentation, merge dev into master.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Rework the browse-by-date listing to group by day as well as year/month.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Answering questions from LS on XSLT/XPath (junior programmer training).

Total: 7.25 hours

Wednesday 2020-05-06

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.25 hours: Endings: Starting work on DHSI presentation on staticSearch.
1.00 hours: FacsViewer: Fix for bug affecting DVPP and other sites; discussions with GT on GitHub tickets, and associated thinking.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Planning and hosting a training session for LS on XSLT.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Rebuilding TEI files from SQL db and associated housekeeping; adding a diagnostic to track those dates.

Total: 5.50 hours

Thursday 2020-05-07

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: FacsViewer: try various approaches to URL parameters to track history and set initial selected image. Limited progress.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting on Skype.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Refresh metadata in Atalanta, Blackwoods and Chambers TEI documents.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Close up linespace after section heading; add comma between multiple footnote numbers; eliminate unwanted lemmas; allow 225 chars in footnotes.
2.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting; devising and testing encoding and rendering of text with interlinear glosses; fixes for rendering issues in manuscript pages.
0.50 hours: Jenkins: setting up configuration backup (normal backup to Spud is not currently practical).

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2020-05-08

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: TEI: Working with SB to rework labelling system for Stylesheets repo tickets; investigating Jing handling of Schematron.
4.00 hours: jTEI Issue 12: Encoding/proofing/copyediting the last article for this issue.
1.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: More work on images for presentation; preparing the ODD file so we can build a small demo site as part of the tutorial materials; adding intro materials to the documentation.

Total: 7.25 hours

From work log during week 7 of working from home (2020-04-27 to 2020-05-01): + 4 hours.

Isolation log week 7:
Work done from home 2020-04-27 to 2020-05-01.

Week 7 total hours: 39.00

G & T hours: +4

Monday 2020-04-27

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: LEMDO PDF: Abandon KOMA approach to font sizes and instead set sizes where needed in all contexts; query to publisher re spacing after subheadings; figure out how to make double-page graphic start on a verso page (gnarly); include H5 acknowledgements and handle rendering bug.
0.25 hours: Greek site: housekeeping after end of workstudy period; emails to RA and MN to confirm where we stand.
2.50 hours: MyNDIR: Home page grid layout implementation, following PS's CodePen example; make initial name in entity description into link to entity page (in popup on site).
0.25 hours: DVPP: Adding documentation for CSS checking process implemented last week.
1.25 hours: Wendat: Analysis of sample texts based around interlinear glosses, and creation of a proposal for encoding them for ML to consider.
1.00 hours: FacsViewer/Coldesp: working on the FacsViewer code to enable paged display for larger sets of images.

Total: 7.25 hours.

Tuesday 2020-04-28

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Entered author's proofing corrections for vol 28 article; built site and published; then further corrections to vol 27 article from HT.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Devising method for encoding local citation links, and wrote documentation for it. Implementation awaits.
0.25 hours: jTEI Issue 12: Research and decision on encoding/citing of online archives; email to jTEI editors.
1.25 hours: HCMC Blue Jeans meeting.
0.50 hours: MyNDIR: Cleaning up and commenting CSS ready to pass back to PS.
0.75 hours: JTEI Issue 12: Editors' meeting, finalizing the last article for encoding.
2.50 hours: FacsViewer: Set up VSCode and ESLint for better source control; fixed warnings and errors; created dev branch and started coding for paged display of thumbnails; configured JSDoc to generate documentation and began better documentation.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2020-04-29

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Kernel upgrades, so caution required. Test first on TEI server, then do ours. Cleared out old kernels when confirmed safe.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Feedback and questions on documentation from yesterday; updates to documentation.
0.25 hours: Workstudy: Final timesheet for JS submitted.
1.00 hours: Scancan: New review encoded an uploaded for proofing; some issues pointed out to editors.
0.25 hours: LEMDO/legacy: Discussion and request for subdomain qme.uvic.ca to point to the QME site to allow secure https.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Discussion of font-family settings and tagging for typefaces and hand-drawn text in illustrations; related research on terminology.
1.50 hours: TEI: Working on Stylesheets ticket 427.
2.00 hours: FacsViewer: Implementing a cleaner process for building the image blocks in JS, using an HTML template. Half done.

Total: 7.50 hours

Thursday 2020-04-30

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Investigate build failure, add memory to process, emails with RA; upgrade Saxon from 9 to 10 and test; add code templates to project.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Tweak schema process and rebuild schema/documentation to include new taxonomy.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: project meeting on Skype.
1.25 hours: Wendat: project meeting, XSLT to generate table of latin abbreviations for team to discuss.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Planning training for new Assistant Junior Programmer.
1.00 hours: Moses: Rebuilding PDF; debugging problem with character display in PDF; discussion with SK on this.
2.00 hours: FacsViewer/Despatches: More progress but template-based approach still not working.

Total: 8.25 hours

Friday 2020-05-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Scancan: proofing corrections for review; new Schematron rule for citations; question for editor on implications of this.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Consultations on plan for character list and speech prefix constraints.
0.75 hours: WSANEC dictionary: Consultation with ECZH.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Rewrote the schema build process completely, using a new method which ensures we can build the schema with the latest TEI without the Oxygen plugin, even offline. Will use this approach for other projects too.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Modified new code Wendat schema build process to include a careful harvest of all instances of Latin abbreviations to create a table in the documentation, listing and linking to all the instances in actual documents.
3.50 hours: Wendat: Removed kludgy insertion of FacsViewer codebase in manuscript rendering, replacing it with a simpler modification of the original code which works more intelligently for our particular manuscripts.

Total: 8.50 hours