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There are nearly 200 distinct strings representing some kind of award/citation/honour in the DB right now. I pruned the list of official awards (like the Military Cross) and am left with 146 honours of some sort that I'd like to deal with.
I'm thinking that we could move them to a researcher's note, or create an array field in the data.person table called 'honours'. Either way, I'd also like to create an info page that explains what each one is and why it was generally awarded - they all sound impressive, but some were just for participating and others were basically rich dudes giving chums a bauble. In any case, there are some interesting stories in there.

Here's the list (spelling not corrected):
1911 King George V Coronation Medal
1914/15 Star
1914 Star
1937 Coronation medal
1939 - 1945 Star
Albert Medal
British War Medal
Bronze Medal for Military Valour (Italy)
Canadian Efficiency Decoration
Canadian Forces Decoration (CD)
Canadian Forces Decoration (CD) w/ 1st and 2nd Clasp
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal
Cavalier of the Order of the Crown of Italy
Chevalier de l'Ordre de Leopold (Belgium)
Chevalier de l'Ordre de Leopold II (Belgium)
Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal du Lion (Belgium)
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal
Colonial Auxillary Forces Officer Decoration
Commander Military Order of Avis (Portugal)
Commandeur, Ordre de la Couronne (Belgium)
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Coronation Medal
Coronation Medal (1937)
Coronation Medal (1953)
Croix de Chevalier (France)
Croix de Guerre avec Etoile (France)
Croix de Guerre avec Palm (France)
Croix de Guerre avec Palms (Belgium)
Croix de Guerre (Belgium)
Croix de Guerre (Czecho-Slovakia)
Croix de Guerre (France)
Croix de Guerre with Bronze Star (Belgium)
Croix de Virtue Militara - 1st Class (Romania)
Cross Civique 1st Class (Belgium)
Cross of Military Merit 3rd Class (Bavaria)
Cross of St. George 3rd Class (Russia)
Cross of St. George, 4th Class (Russia)
Crown of Romania
Czechoslovak War Cross
Czechoslovak War Cross 1914-1918
Defence Medal
Defence Medal (WW2)
Duke of Jassy (Romania)
Efficiency Decoration
European Service Medal
France and Germany Star
Gold casualty stripe
Gold Stripe
Good Conduct Badge
Good Service Medal
Grand Cross of Order of Romania
Honourable Mention to Secretary of State for War
India Medal
King George Silver Jubilee Medal 1910-1935
Kings' South African Medal
Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos III of Spain
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Christ of Portugal
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Bulgaria
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Pedro I of Brazil
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Rose of Brazil
Legion d'Honneur - Croix de Chevalier
Legion d'Honneur - Croix d'Officier
Legion of Merit (Degree of Commander)
Long Service in the Colonial Auxiliary Forces
Long Service Medal
Medaille de Reconnaissance (France)
Médaille des Épidémies
Medaille des Epidemies en Argent
Medaille des Epidemies en Bronze
Medaille des Epidemies en Vermeil
Medaille d'Honneur Avec Glaives
Medaille d'Honneur en Argent (France)
Medaille Militaire (France)
Medal of St. George, 3rd Class (Russia)
Medal of St. George, 4th Class (Russia)
Member of the Order of Canada
Member of the Royal Victorian Order
Memorial Cross
Memorial Plaque
Memorial Plaque & Scroll
Mercantile Marine Medal
Meritorious Medal
Meritorious Service Medal
Natal Medal
None
North West Canada Medal
Officier de la légion d'honneur & Croix de Guerre avec palme
Order of Canada
Order of Danilo, 2nd Class (Montenegro)
Order of Icarus
Order of Merit - Poland
Order of Regina Maria (Romania)
Order of St. Anne (Russia)
Order of St. Anne, Second Class with Swords (Russia)
Order of St. Anne, Third Class with Swords (Russia)
Order of St. George (Russia)
Order of St. Stanislas
Order of St. Stanislas, 1st Class (Russia)
Order of St. Stanislas, 2nd Class (Russia)
Order of St. Stanislas, 3rd Class with Swords (Russia)
Order of St. Stanislas (Poland)
Order of St. Vladimir (Russia)
Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire - Civil Division
Order of the Crown (Belgium)
Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class (Japan)
Order of the Sacred Treasure, 4th Class (Japan)
Order of the Star of Romania
Order of the White Eagle with Swords, 5th Class (Russia)
Order of the White Eagle with Swords (Russia)
Ordre de Leopold (Belgium)
Ordre de l'Etoile Noire (Poland)
Polish War Cross
Queen's South Africa Medal
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Long Service Medal
Royal Engineers Transportation Branch No 105
Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal
Royal Humane Society’s Certificate
Royal Naval Reserve Officers Decoration
Royal Victorian Medal
Russian Medal of St. George
Saint-John of Jerusalem
Saviour of Romania
Service Medal
Service Medal of Canada
Silver Jubilee
Silver Medal for Military Valeur (Italy)
Territorial Efficiency Medal
Territorial Force Efficiency Medal
The Golden Aristion Andrias (Order of Gallantry)
The Médaille d'Honneur
Tibet Medal 1903-04
Victory Medal
Victory & War Medals
Vimy Pilgrimage
Volunteer Decoration
War Medal 1939 - 1945
War Medal (WW2)
Wound Stripe
Yser Cross (Belgium)
Yser Medal (Belgium)

Isolation log week 3:
Work done from home 2020-03-30 to 2020-04-03.

Week 3 total hours: 37

G & T hours +2

Monday 2020-03-30

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, reboot them, test, check for plugin updates, remove old kernels.
0.25 hours: Framing and posting Stackoverflow question on Xelatex not finding fonts.
1.25 hours: Scancan: Document setup, metadata, first para and bibliography for Barreiro article.
1.75 hours: Scancan: Finish Barreiro article; add Schematron to control spaces, and fix fallout in prior articles; rebuild site; update eXist instance; inform editor of new article ready for proofing.
2.00 hours: DVPP: refresh db files in repo, implement system for encoding and rendering marginal braces on linegroups, test, document, and report to the team.
1.50 hours: DVPP: fix JS aligning column breaks, add new taxonomy value, set up new respStmt for database metadata contributors as part of the TEI generation process and test, answer a couple of queries from RAs.
1.00 hours: Based on responses to Stackoverflow question, rewriting, debugging and testing main font setting (Vollkorn), this time successfully.

Total: 8.00 hours.

Tuesday 2020-03-31

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, check for plugin updates.
1.50 hours: TEI Stylesheets working group meeting (training for new Council members, 6am - 7.30).
1.00 hours: Working through TEI tickets assigned to me, and closing some.
1.00 hours: HCMC Blue Jeans call.
1.00 hours: Despatches: site switch to static (thanks sysadmin), testing, and subsequent follow-up emails to project team dealing with archiving etc.
0.50 hours: Debug validation problem in MoEML; teach DVPP encoders how to retrieve an old version of a file to find something that got inadvertently deleted.
3.00 hours: Getting started on MyNDIR build: parameterizing build process for faster testing; adding mechanisms for determining edition info, svn rev, build date and so on; adding formal citation to footer; adding lots of documentation; tidying up build files and XSLT.
0.50 hours: Regular email churn.

Total: 7.25 hours.

Wednesday 2020-04-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, check for plugin updates, clean out some old builds taking up space.
0.25 hours: LEMDO PDF rendering: Solved mysterious spacing problem with quotation marks.
3.00 hours: LEMDO PDF rendering: Secondary fonts now finally working, after hours of trial and error and Googling; one lacks an italic face so will have to be replaced, so waiting for response from AG. Multiple tweaks to spacing and rendering.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Added handling for drop-caps in head and paragraph elements, alongside existing handling in lines.
0.25 hours: Tech support for PAB trying to checkout the MyNDIR repo on Windows 10.
0.25 hours: LEMDO PDF rendering: remove Mukta font per AG, and re-style with Josefin Sans.
2.00 hours: MyNDIR: Adding staticSearch metadata into HTML pages; enhancing metadata labels in names.xml to use in staticSearch; tech support for PAB; adding HTML validation into build process; expanding build process to include all steps by default.

Total: 7.00 hours.

Thursday 2020-04-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, check for plugin updates.
0.75 hours: LEMDO print build: font/formatting for running headers; question about formatting of two-part titles and implications.
0.50 hours: Scancan: initial setup and metadata for Vanherpen vol 28 article. Query to HT about italicization.
1.00 hours: LEMDO project Skype meeting.
0.50 hours: MyNDIR: emails with PAB re error on site, plan for menus, and Jenkins build failure.
1.50 hours: TEI Infrastructure Group meeting on Skype; setting up UptimeRobot monitoring/reporting to the group for TEI sites, and follow-up emails.
0.50 hours: Keats: build, test, and release new edition of site (2.8) per KB.
0.75 hours: Wendat: Project meeting in Blue Jeans.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Encoded first half of bibliography in vol 28 article; fixed loose Schematron rule.
0.50 hours: Admin/emails (gathering timesheets, tech support, TEI, LEMDO).

Total: 7.00 hours.

Friday 2020-04-03
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, check for plugin updates.
0.25 hours: Check, "sign", and submit timesheets for Workstudy and DVPP RAs.
0.25 hours: Correspondence with SK about clipart sources for the Hul'q'umi'num' site and rights to use images elsewhere.
1.00 hours: Weekly meeting with SB to triage tickets to be handled by the TEI Stylesheets Group on Tuesday.
4.00 hours: LEMDO: Add finalized contents list to Print document; rewrite handling of headings to accommodate mysterious absence of headings for acts and unpredictable levels of nesting in composite document; add templates to import graphics; investigate/report on best approach to handling genealogy graphic for H5; and various other fixes and email discussions.
0.25 hours: Moses: Figure out how to build dictionary PDF locally, build and commit.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Correspondence on standards and procedures for graphics split across page-spreads in the print volume.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Set up print build file for AYL; update Othello print build file; generate latest PDFs for all three and post for comments.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Dump latest db on server, run admin build task to integrate, run refresh of TEI metadata for Chambers 1890.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Fix tagging of foreign epithet in name; make Schematron rule more nuanced.

Total: 8.0 hours.

From work log during first two weeks of working from home (2020-03-16 to 2020-03-27): + 2 hours.

Spent all morning setting up my workstation: configs, installations, third monitor(!), remote mount setups, etc.
Collectively sorted out communications: Slack and BlueJeans

Work done from home 2020-03-16 to 2020-03-27.

Week 1 total hours: 37.5
Week 2 total hours: 34.5

G & T hours +2

Monday 2020-03-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, reboot them, test, check for plugin updates, remove old kernels.
1.00 hours: Download materials from Squash, start encoding of long bibliography for translation intro for Scancan.
1.00 hours: Meeting with Syd Bauman to examine Stylesheets issues #396 and #408 to prepare for Stylesheets group meeting tomorrow.
0.50 hours: Completing bibliography for Scancan article; setting up and testing PDF rendering for Scancan articles using XEP.
0.50 hours: Setting up Google Hangout for DVPP RA discussions.
0.50 hours: Encoding the first third of the Scancan article content.
0.25 hours: Debug and suppress new build warning in DVPP build caused by new release of HTML validator.
3.00 hours: Pushing forward with LEMDO PDF generation for Keystone Canyon publisher: working on headers and footers, negotiating over font choices, and learning basic LaTeX.
0.50 hours: Figuring out how to get timesheets completed and submitted remotely without MS Office.

Total: 7.5 hours.

Tuesday 2020-03-17

1.50 hours: TEI Stylesheets Coop Group meeting, working on ticket #408 (one of mine, related to staticSearch documentation).
1.50 hours: Reworking primary source bibliography in Scancan article to comply with our styleguide; encoding second third of the article body.
0.50 hours: Colonial Despatches: adding a count of transcribed enclosures, distinct from untranscribed enclosures, per request from GL and KSS.
2.00 hours: Scancan: completing Lavender article, building and testing new release including it, uploading new version to server, testing release.
1.00 hours: Emails to and from Accounting/Payroll re timesheet submission protocol; completion and submission of six timesheets, five DVPP and one workstudy.
0.50 hours: Discussions relating to use of Hangouts and other tools for project meetings. Downloading, installing and testing Blue Jeans.

Total: 7.0 hours

Wednesday 2020-03-18

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, update plugins.
0.50 hours: Bug-fixing in TEI Stylesheets tests to get Jenkins builds working again (https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets/commit/ea5b81540d8ff71c35b49ca2825abe0e5605c97b).
3.50 hours: Working on LaTeX/PDF publisher output for LEMDO Othello text.
3.50 hours: FacsViewer enhancement to track loading of images; testing and debugging with Despatches site.

Total: 7.75 hours

Thursday 2020-03-19

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, update plugins.
0.25 hours: Deal with email queries from RAs etc. re remote logins etc.
0.25 hours: Continuing review/commenting on proposal for Ruby encoding in TEI.
0.25 hours: Setting up Slack workspace for HCMC, inviting the others, testing, configuring.
2.00 hours: Figuring out TOC and running header settings for LEMDO print publication.
0.50 hours: Debugging ODD build process errors for GL working on his Windows machine.
1.00 hours: Blue Jeans conference for Wendat project.
0.50 hours: Debugging and fixing FacsViewer rendering issue on Blink browsers.
1.00 hours: Integrating FacsViewer into Wendat MSS renderings.
1.00 hours: Afternoon email deluge (Liddell Award nomination, Despatches TEI plugin configuration, LEMDO print document design...)

Total: 7.00 hours

Thursday 2020-03-19

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, update plugins.
0.50 hours: Create release 0.8 of the staticSearch library (GitHub), so that we can start testing on the dev branch with the new Saxon 10.
0.50 hours: Initial (very promising) testing on dev branch with new Saxon 10; early results show it's about 40% faster for what we're doing.
1.00 hours: Video conference with Syd Bauman, working on TEI Stylesheets issues and preparation for tutorial for new TEI Council members.
0.25 hours: Endings project video conference.
1.00 hours: Switching to Saxon 10 in staticSearch codebase, and testing results.
2.00 hours: Switching Keats project to Saxon 10 and testing; debugging two problems with new release of vnu.jar.
0.25 hours: Tech support for Wendat RA having trouble with snv checkouts and conflicts.
2.50 hours: LEMDO PDF for print: adding a pre-processing step for assigning line-numbers; implementing line-counting algorithm; rendering line-numbers in margins; fixing whitespace issues; formatting speech prefixes per editors' discussion.

Total: 8.25 hours

Monday 2020-03-23

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, update plugins.
0.25 hours: Email, TEI and staticSearch GitHub ticket updates, Slack and email contact with HCMC.
1.50 hours: Set up new document for Scancan volume 27 translation, add metadata and bibliography, create layout table, encode intro, send rendering question to editor. Test-encode 1 row of translation; modify schema to allow paragraphs in layout table cells; modify paragraph rendering for side-by-side translations table cells.
3.00 hours: Encoding and checking of the rest of the vol 27 translation (61 pages).
0.25 hours: Correspondence and tracking of TEI Issue 12 article coming back in from authors.
0.25 hours: Trying (without success) to get together with AC for a DVPP meeting in Blue Jeans.
0.75 hours: DVPP XSLT fix for rendering of drop-caps combined with hanging indent.
0.50 hours: Completing and sending forms for SSHRC impact award for JJ.
1.00 hours: Final version of Scancan translation: convert to alternative parallel text encoding approach, tweak title page contents, switch quote marks to elements, build and publish the site to include the proofing version.

Total: 7.75 hours

Tuesday 2020-03-24

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, update plugins.
1.00 hours: Researching LaTeX implementation of footnotes in LEMDO print document.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Fixing a bug in line- and stanza-counting due to quoted lines in figure captions.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Email consultations with RAs.
0.75 hours: HCMC staff meeting (Blue Jeans).
3.00 hours: Completing implementation of footnotes in LEMDO print: handling annotation anchors, formatting labels, formatting footnote number and hanging indent, dealing with overlong footnotes, tweaking layout parameters to avoid splitting footnotes across pages.
1.50 hours: Online meeting with JJ to discuss LEMDO print progress and plan next stages.
0.50 hours: Various email exchanges on Despatches and Scancan.

Total: 8.25 hours

Wednesday 2020-03-25

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, update plugins.
0.25 hours: Switch Despatches build over to using Saxon 10, since it's required for the dev tree of staticSearch, which it uses.
0.50 hours: Debugging build problems with Despatches arising from GL's XSLT.
3.00 hours: LEMDO print rendering: bibliography compilation and rendering now working.
1.50 hours: DVPP meeting with AC over Blue Jeans; work on encoding and rendering approaches to curly-braced line-groups.
1.50 hours: LEMDO meeting with JJ, and follow-up work revising previous rendering decisions in print PDF.
0.50 hours: Setting up Henry V for PDF generation, and raising resulting new issues on LEMDO list.

Total: 7.50 hours.

Thursday 2020-03-26

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, update plugins.
0.25 hours: Fix fallout from fix to issue #349 on TEI Stylesheets repo: check and update Test2 materials.
1.00 hours: First pass through Scancan vol 28 article in ODT, auto-tagging italicized content, and email to editor with questions.
1.00 hours: LEMDO discussion on handling of TLNs; debugging footnote-in-heading issue in LaTeX; building/posting first version of H5 PDF.
2.00 hours: LEMDO Skype meeting, prep and follow-up.
0.50 hours: Clean up LEMDO project file, install Oxygen in Windows vm, test schema association in Windows, report to LEMDO Windows users having problems.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Update metadata and run OCR on AYR 1870 poems.
1.75 hours: LEMDO Hangouts meeting re pointing, referencing and lineation; follow-up annotation of minutes/conclusions.
0.50 hours: Wendat Blue Jeans meeting.
0.50 hours: Trying to figure out how best to configure font paths for Xelatex.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2020-03-27

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers, update plugins.
0.25 hours: Figured out how to get local font usage working in Xelatex, and incorporated the first custom font.
1.50 hours: Work on TEI tickets, Hangouts meetings with SB; solved Oxygen plugin template issue that has persisted since 2016.
2.00 hours: Working on getting custom fonts working in LaTeX pdf; configuration is all done, but formatter is not successfully using them.

Total: 4.00 hours

Worked 4 hours.
Apis Pausa2.5.6 family, check.

Worked 5 hours

Lelex LELE1 LELE3

and his family tree.
With the current texts, seems like the two ids are the same person. Will have to take a closer look at the family tree before making changes.

continue with pers file edits.

Worked 4 hours.

LOI has a number of search pages and since the site is massive, it's not feasible for it to use the standard static search approach for using standard exclusions (since the process would have to parse 19,000 files for a search of 300, for instance). So here's the process of creating a new search page:

1. Create a new map-entry in the code/generated/create_search_pages_master.xsl. The id should be the document's id (i.e. search_blort) and the value should be the search page's title ("Search across all the Blorts"). Note that this step may not be necessary in future if the searches pages are kept statically in the site (i.e. if custom text needs to be added etc--at that rate, the pages should just be stashed in an about folder and generated like the rest of the pages).

2. Add new metadata for the XHTML5 files in xhtml_head_module.xsl. The way I've done it so far is to add a new function (loi:createBlortMeta()) that is called if the document needs it (i.e. IF $documentType = "blort" THEN loi:createBlortMeta()). The blort meta function should create

<meta>

tags as per the Static Search documentation (add a meta with a class of staticSearch.(bool|num|date|desc), a `@name` and a `@value`): https://github.com/projectEndings/staticSearch/blob/master/docs/staticSearch.html.

You should also add a new class--call it blortMeta--so that your config can pinpoint that class of metas not to exclude (a weird double negative: by default the static search includes all filters [aka all meta tags] so we need to exclude all of them EXCEPT the blortMetas since we want those to show up on the search page).

3. Create a new config at the root of production, likely by copy pasting. It should likely contain all the same weighting rules as the other configs, but you will need to change the search file path (from whatever_search to blort_search). You'll also want to add a filter exclusion for everything that's not a blort meta--something like so:

       <exclude xpath="meta[not(contains-token(@class,'blortMeta'))]" type="filter"/>

4. In the build, create a new task for creating your blort search and, in that search, use the custom <createSearch> task. This task is just a simple function, basically, for doing the repeated operations for generating the sub-search pages. It just copies all of the necessary files over, does the search on them, moves all the files back out, and deletes the copied files. So it'll look something like:

   <createSearch 
            configPath="../search_config_blort.xml"
            searchTempDir="${site.dir}/blort"
            pattern="blort_**.html"
            searchFile="blort_search.html"
        />

Where:
- configPath is the path to the configuration
- searchTempDir is the same of the temporary search folder (name it whatever you'd like, but I'd use blort)
- pattern is the match pattern for the files (i.e. include="{$pattern}"). blort_* for instance.
- searchFile is the name of the search file html; here it's blort.html

5. Add that target to the main search target as a depends, and then run the search as either part of the full build (just ant) or by itself if you have a copy of the build already completed (ant search)

- Note that once all the searches are complete, the search pages (all pages starting search_) are passed through a quick XSLT that changes the styling/grouping of the search pages just to make it more consistent with the LOI UI. That might change in future or simply be eliminated; it is not a crucial step--just an aesthetic one.

- Also note that there is a process during the getStaticSearch target (the first one in the build's search target) that modifies staticSearch/build.xml such that the JVM is forked and given 4GB of memory; we haven't added any way for the static search codebase to get more memory conditionally (and we don't want to force people to use 4GB of RAM), so this is just a quick hack around that.

Worked 2.5 hours.