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Early morning editors' meeting from home; completed the minutes and various follow-up tasks before setting off for work.

Added a block of new data to any row in which the previous title was a custodian, providing the info for the title preceding that one; that makes it easier for the stats processing to figure out the sale price excluding what happened with the custodian.

Testing of the Mac version of the jpeg-to-pdf app demonstrated that it was now broken, presumably because of some change to OSX since last May. After much pain and suffering involving getting a fresh version of Platypus installed and doing a lot of testing, we have ended up with a new version of the .app file which works. Lessons learned:

• Platypus settings should include bash as the executor, but check those settings manually; when I just accepted the default, the result was an app which tried to execute bash from inside bash (I think).
• Do the build on a Mac (obviously), and make sure the result is committed to svn from a Mac, otherwise stuff gets broken (the .app is actually a folder, and is treated like one by every other OS).
• Add another zipped version to svn just to be safe.
• Use the Cactus DMG distro of ImageMagick rather than trying to install it from Mac Ports or using binaries.

Currently editing Resources - Research - Periodicals content (re-wording links text) in order to conform to Cascade standards.

Website in progress.

Beginning to receive May - August 2015 computer hours for the research computer facility.
Currently preparing tentative schedule as requests come in.

Received website changes from IG.
Completed tasks re reordering of secondaries; updated content
Had meeting with IG yesterday to assist her with remainder of requested changes and to clarify possible additional changes.
Faculty photos received; now resized to acceptable sizes.
Have uploaded photos to appropriate pages.

Next steps:
Further content changes forthcoming from IG (creation and location of multi-column content)

Chasing up possible contributors; preparing (tiny) agenda for tomorrow's meeting; beginning setup of svn repo on tei-c.org. I think, after much testing, we need admin power to be able to import our CloudForge repo content with its history (as opposed to just copying a current working copy into it).

...to discuss possible future funding opportunities.

Began work on preparing for the presentation in May, and started by gathering some screenshots and making a rough plan. In the process, we began to examine the page-images for the community directories, and I think (based on my limited Japanese) that I've discovered a discrepancy; a directory we believed (based on UBC metadata) to be 1939 actually looks to me as though it's dated 1941 (Showa 16). Waiting for some expert help to confirm or dispel this suspicion.