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Received new content information from SB for student awards page.
Updated site with changes.
Sent email to BB re changes
Sent email to BB, JS, SA, cc'd SB advising launch date

Leaving early for medical appt.

For the map presentation, we need a demo of side-by-side rendering. I've got the basics working:

• A framework HTML file which presents two linked map renderings.
• Our map rendering on the left, and other maps on the right selected by a drop-down selector.
• Some basic CSS.
• XSLT to render JS objects from the zone elements in the apparatus file.
• An ant build script to build the project and push changes to the hcmc web space.

The next stage is to implement zones on the map and zoom to them when specific sheets are selected on the right.

Things learned: still can't use PNGs in Zoomify layers; can't zoom out below the lowest zoom level.

Received revisions from BB; updated the site with those revisions
and sent email to BB,JS advising revisions completed.

Waiting on remainder of incoming content from BB.

If you want to make an AJAX call to get, say, some JSON from eXist you'll need to allow it (because of the CORS thing).
You can add a stanza to Jetty's web.xml file ($exist-home-dir/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml) like this:

    <filter>
        <filter-name>cross-origin</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.CrossOriginFilter</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>cross-origin</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

which will allow all external requests. Probably not what you want in production, but you can fiddle the url-pattern to suit.

Leaving early.

I cannot for the life of me find a way to get Jenkins to check out anything from revision.hcmc.uvic.ca (which is only available through https/apache). No configuration of credential settings, ssh keys, user names, passwords or anything else will work. I'm floored, and this stops our build server from being practical.

If we can't get this working, and we can't enable revision.hcmc.uvic.ca svn repos to be anonymous-readable (ticket in with sysadmin right now), then we'll have to take the projects we want to build to SF, Github, or somewhere else we know will work.

Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island
3 years, 225K from SSHRC
Goal: is to reconceptualize Asian-Canadian histories on Vancouver Island
Deliverables: digital history website; learning resources for history teachers; two books; research collection
Content: Emphasis is on stories such as Chinese and First-Nation longshoring in Chemainus, Japanese Barber for Sikhs in Duncan, Chinese restaurant serving First Nations; Chinese-C and Japanese-C and the labour movement
Themes: relations between A-C minorities, relations between A-C and respective homeland communities, dealing with expectations to be "good Canadians" from within community and from non A-C community.

vs CCAP which is 8 month project whose goal is an online inventory of Chinese Canadian stuff in BC museums, but no derived stories, themes, narrative publications.

Issues raised:
- any questions about who owns the stories, or political sensitivities to them being told
- how to accept input from targetted communities?
- how to present website as more than a hodge-podge of stories? any unifying themes, treatments etc.? E.g. restaurants as sites of interaction between target groups
- is the repository only those items directly related to the stories being told, those + items on similar themes/topics but not referenced in the stories, or those two + other stuff on the target communities? I.e. what's the relationship between the scope of the repository and the scope of the stories being told?

CCAP meeting + ISE meeting + server troubleshooting...

To generate the streets.html file from the xml data files:
- run compare.xsl on itself
I.e. a transformation configured as:
(XML URL = ${pdu}/xsl/compare.xsl , XSL URL = ${pdu}/xsl/compare.xsl , transformer = Saxon-PE 9.5.1.7
Save as = ${cfd}/../streets.html, check Open in Browser with Saved file, check Open in Editor )

To generated a csv file for each xml data file:
- run everything_to_csv.xsl on streets.html
I.e. a transformation configured as:
(XML URL = ${currentFileURL} , XSL URL = ${pdu}/xsl/everything_to_csv.xsl , transformer = Saxon-PE 9.5.1.7 ,
Save as = empty , show results as = XML , nothing else set)