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On late duty, and ramping up for MoEML publicity coming...

Working on my presentation materials for the BC Studies conference, and using the opportunity to look more closely at one or two specific addresses in the directories. We've learned that the 1941 phone directory is only phones (no-one without one appears); while the 1941 zai-kanada directory looks like it should contain everyone. However, the 1941 city directory has a lot of people living in rooms (e.g. at 510 Alexander) who are Japanese but never appear in the zai-kanada, so there's obviously some additional process of selectivity going on. In any case, I've put together the first half of the presentation, mainly illustrated with images, and will finish up tomorrow. Some of the same materials can be re-purposed for the Ottawa presentation.

Sunday night and today, replaced the old map with the new map in all contexts; changed the landing page for the map to a standard MoEML document; removed "experimental" from everywhere it appears; fixed the gazetteer generation code along with page and mdtList rendering code to remove links to the old map; and cleaned up a host of other stuff.

I've also put in a temporary conditional redirect (with an override I can use for my own testing) that sends the dev version of the map to the live site; the dev URL got into the wild, unfortunately, so for a while we'll have to do that.

Working on "M" periodicals.

Website in progress

Buck, Carl Darling. Greek Dialects. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1928. Print. (Has a useful map; on loan from Dr. Bowman.)

Johnston, Ian. Glossary and Index for the Iliad. Vancouver Island University, 1 October 2001. Web. 28 April 2015. https://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/homer/iliad_index.htm

Loeb Classical Library. Harvard University Press, n.d. Web. 30 April 2015. (Requires UVic Library Login to access.) http://www.loebclassics.com/

Mapping the Catalogue of Ships. Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library, n.d. Web. 29 April 2015. http://ships.lib.virginia.edu/

Neer, Richard T. Greek Art and Archaeology: A New History, c. 2500 - c. 150 BCE. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2012. (On loan from Dr. Burke.)

Pedley, John Griffiths. Greek Art and Archaeology. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Print. (On loan from Dr. Burke.)

Perseus Digital Library. Tufts University, n.d. Web. 30 April 2015. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/?redirect=true

Pleiades. Ancient World Mapping Center, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the Contributors, n.d. Web. 30 April 2015. http://pleiades.stoa.org/

Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: Walton and Maberly, 1854. Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University, n.d. Web. 30 April 2015. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064

General info for various mythologies

Talbert, Richard J.A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Print. (On loan from GRS Reading Room.)

Wittke, Anne, Eckhart Olshausen and Richard Szydlak, eds. Brill's New Pauly Supplements I, Vol. 3: Historical Atlas of the Ancient World. Trans. Duncan Smart. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Print. (On loan from GRS Reading Room.)

MoM Project Guidelines:

http://hcmc.uvic.ca/blogs/media/blogs/mom/GuidelinesfortheMythsonMapsProject.pdf

Revised Event Guidelines:

http://hcmc.uvic.ca/blogs/index.php?blog=45&p=13018&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Working Bibliography:

http://hcmc.uvic.ca/blogs/index.php?blog=45&p=13007&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Mercator Vertex Generator:

http://hcmc.uvic.ca/people/greg/maps/vertexer/?la=37.65&lo=24.313&z=6&t=roadmap

Continuing editing of periodicals.

Website in progress