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Weekly meeting, with the following outcomes:

• Our new taxonomy for sonic devices will be sdRefrain (the generic), sdAnaphora, sdEpistrophe, sdInRhyme, and sdVariant (the last is a combinator).
• Building a good search is my current #1 priority.
• At the meeting tomorrow, we'll work out a process and checklists for proofing and pre-publication checking. Site pages should get a Draft watermark until published; the site on Jenkins should have a Beta tag.
• Hashtags should be defined as a table in the database, so AC can add new ones and retire old ones by editing the table. The diagnostics should use the table to check existing hashtags.

120 minutes.

Leaving a little early to pick up car from repair.

The HotPot 7 version of the Wheelock site has been checked and approved by MN, so I've rebuilt it with the current release, cleared out a bunch of obsolete exercises that were still around, reworked the home page for hrd/latin, and published it. However, there are several hundred remaining errors found by the VNU validator that are almost all cases where tables have been used in JCloze, but the numbers of cells in each row are not consistent. These will need to be fixed, but it's not urgent. There's also an ANKI APKG file for Latin that was prepared by a student, but that needs to be tested and checked for copyright violations etc. before we can post it; I'm not sure how to go about that, without potentially sacrificing a device. There are binaries in the file, but I don't know what they are. 140 minutes

Late duty.

Met with JJ and started working out the details of the course, assigning things, and confirming plans and guests. 90 minutes.

This is a requirement for the JSON search engine, which has now become the main priority for the website. I'm implementing Porter2 as described here, with some guidance from the JS implementation by Kristopolous, although I'm already finding that XSLT will require a different approach in many ways. I'm building a unit test in XSpec as I go. I'm also learning from JT's implementation of the original Porter, although they are significantly different. 120 minutes.

Worked 2 hours over yesterday, but was off this morning for participation in a study; net result is one hour down.

Did a lot more bugfixing, and tested with the newly-ready Cornhill 1860; I think the script is now robust. Also we did an intro-to-XPath workshop at this morning's meeting. 180 minutes.

This volume is unusual in having many translators, most of whom need to be credited in the contributor list. I've devised a setup whereby their bio information goes into the notesStmt of the volume document, and is harvested from there into the contributor list. 60 minutes.

Found some bugs in my sql-to-tei code, specifically in the script which writes scripts to add and move XML files following the merge of data. I've now fixed and tested the code and it seems to be OK; the fallout took a couple of hours to fix, though, since a handful of files across a number of directories had been duplicated (new file with different filename not added to repo; old file not moved to obsolete). Fixed all of these carefully, and dealt with a conflict suffered by KSHF caused by this.

Also doubled the size of a db field per AC.

120 minutes.