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Met with CP and prepared the presentation for next Monday morning.

1. ES added the xml files for fraf7, cltf5, pscf6.
2. ES added transcripts for fraf7, cltf5, pscf6
3. SA uploaded all the latest changes to the website and all seems to work fine. Thumbnails have to be created for fraf7, cltf5, pscf6.

I have a bunch of new users to add to the system and make members of the CanMys blog. When I added the first and logged in as him, I noticed that when I clicked on the Posts button, I was allowed to see posts from the Moses, EMCS and Scraps blogs. Turns out those three blogs had group permissions which made all users of type "Blogger" members and with permission to upload to the media folder, but do nothing else. Those three blogs also have individual users with specific permissions.
I disabled the is-member checkbox for Bloggers in the group permissions for each of those three blogs. That automatically disabled the upload checkbox. There should be no change of behaviour for specific users that are members of those blogs.

Reviewed the second paper on topic modelling.

Putting some graphics together for the presentation and creating the first slides.

More work than time...

Team meeting resulted in these things:

• Check out the best way of encoding such things as headings not present in the source, but supplied by the editor, and figure out how best to provide resp functionality for this.
• Inline citations using <ref> will become common. I see no reason why they shouldn't work out-of-the-box, but it needs testing.
• The credits pages will include a manually-encoded and -managed page for Team, one ditto for Team Alumni, and a third page which is automatically generated, for Contributors. This should list Contributors by Name and Contributors by Role, and should link each name to a full bio. Roles are defined through the Marc Relators codes.
• Each contribution role for each person deserves its own <respStmt> in the header. This allows JJ to put the entire <respStmt> list into order of precedence.
• Team members' photos should be linked into their bios, and the rendering pipeline should provide for rendering modes which include or exclude the photo. We'll need to figure out encoding strategies then write rendering code.
• FIXED: The missing.xml 404 page wasn't working in the old site design.
• FIXED: The use of <hi> for rendering instructions in born-digital documents should be avoided in favour of semantic tagging. I implemented handling for <label> to deal with a specific case in prepare_transcription.xml.

750 page images for RG7 G8C Vol 10 (in three different sizes) have been added to the collection. These cover the British Columbia 1862-63: Despatches from London. These will now be linked into the transcription documents.

Hello all,

This morning I met with the volunteer from Oak Bay archives that is compiling a list of WWI veterans. He is interested in working together to compile the list so that we can share the information. Caroline Duncan from Saanich Archives was at Oak Bay today and we tentatively planned a meeting with the archivists and main volunteers from the municipal archives in Greater Victoria for June 12. I'm working on making contacts at the UVic library so that we can offer to digitize some materials for Saanich (and possibly other archives who don't have the resources to digitize larger items). I'll keep you up to date on that planning.

In the afternoon I met with a contact from the View Royal Archives who provided me with photos of her father, who was a POW held in Germany for 3 years. She also has an oral history that I now have the transcript for. The audio file is held in the Canadian War Museum so I am going to be in contact with them to see if they have digitized the file from the cassette form. If not, we can include the transcript or see if we are able to digitize it in the library. I'll upload those to dropbox tomorrow.

I've also been contacting band offices today. I haven't had much luck yet but I'm waiting to hear back from some offices.

I uploaded my contact list into my folder on dropbox. Feel free to use any of the contacts if you need them.