Used XSLT to add an @n attribute to all paragraphs holding the @xml:id of the preceding or first-child milestone element, to enable faster searches on p tags instead of ranges between milestones, while still returning the correct target milestone.
May 23, 2013
Created another mockup of proposed new Guidelines TOC page.
Tested Macs in A103 to make sure no memory problems etc. doing large transformation exercises.
Fixed some bugs and cleaned up some XQuery and XSLT.
Took several restarts of Tomcat and various apps, then intervention by sysadmin to increase the number of files a process can open; now we have much higher speed on all apps.
Hello all,
I had a very exciting afternoon at the Oak Bay archives! I'll tell you all about it tomorrow. I made a great contact that would like to work cooperatively with us. She is the archivist for both Oak Bay Archives and Saanich Archives. I've done a bit of thinking on the organization of the digital archive and I'm excited to talk to you all about it tomorrow.
See you at 9.
You may notice that when you add images to a blog post it tries to display them at full size, sometimes cropping an edge. To make them easier to view, here's a trick.
After adding the image to a post, look at what the blog engine dropped in to your post editor. It looks like this:
<div class="image_block"><img src="http://hcmc.uvic.ca/blogs/media/blogs/cgtw/poster4.jpg" alt="" title="" width="987" height="1281" /></div>
The width and height attributes are representative of the pixel size of the image. We can adjust them to make it fit a little better by fiddling the numbers. If we reduce each number by, say, 50% we end up with this:
<div class="image_block"><img src="http://hcmc.uvic.ca/blogs/media/blogs/cgtw/poster4.jpg" alt="" title="" width="494" height="640" /></div>
Notice that these are rounded to the nearest whole number. If you try to keep image no wider than about 400 or 500 pixels they'll look better in the blog. Also, please note that this does NOT change the size of the original image. It ONLY changes the display size in the blog. Right-clicking and saving will store a full-size version.
Hi everyone!
Sorry I did not blog at the end of the day. I started off searching BC Archives' collections for material on police/court activity and war resistors, and then I went down there to talk to the archivist in person. Unfortunately, they told me there would be numerous legal challenges involved in accessing some of the material. I will report what they said in more detail on Friday, but for now I have a basic list of what is open to us. I then looked at what BC Archives has for education, and found some useful school records, some oral histories with Victoria high alumni, and other material. While I was there, I also looked at the music scene in Victoria during our time period so that we might have some audio clips for the website. BC Archives has concert programs from various musical societies, and piano sheet music about Victoria, by Victoria composers and published in Victoria. If we can't find any recordings, I could always record myself playing it and put the clip on the website.
Then I checked out the legislative library, and talked to the lovely reference librarian about what records pertaining to education and the provincial government are there. I think I have an almost complete list of what public schools were in operation during the time period, based on a masters thesis on microfilm she showed me. Today, I am going to Victoria City Archives first. I was hoping to find school board minutes yesterday, although these may not give us the interesting stories we are hoping to feature, so I will keep looking for other material. I have an appointment with the archivist at St. Michael's. I spoke to her on the phone yesterday, and it sounds like they have great records on the school's veterans. I am going to call all the old private schools, and Victoria High, and talk to them about records.
May 22, 2013
I've spent the day looking for municipal and community archives. So far my list is:
Sooke Region Musuem
Metchosin Museum Society
Esquimalt Municipal Archives
View Royal Community Archives
Oak Bay Archives
Saanich Archives
Goldstream Archives
Sidney Museum and Archives
It seems that Langford does not have an archive, as much as I've looked for it. Let me know if there are any I've neglected! I have finding aids for some of these and the rest I'll be calling tomorrow. I've also found some useful material in the BC Archives for medical history. Tomorrow I'll be following up with the the Chinese Presbyterian Church and calling local First Nations bands to see if they would be interested in advertising in their newsletter or mailing list.
Wow, things are really kicking off! Love the posters and excited to hear what everyone else found.
As for me, I've started my contact list of churches and social organizations (did you know there are 162 places of worship in this town?) and will be cold-calling them tomorrow. I will be starting with the organizations I know existed 100 years ago, and then as the project moves forward I will start reaching out to newer groups to see if their members have other information - which will be greatly aided by those posters. The things I will look for first are if the groups have lists of members who served, members from the time, any archival materials, and monuments, and from there I will build a list of places worth visiting.
Wish I could join you at the air museum, have a great time. I'm signing off early today to enjoy a birthday dinner, see you all Friday!
Ben