Over 400 new images (in three different sizes) have been added to the collection. These cover the BC 1859 Despatches from London.
November 30, 2011
Off sick yesterday so I had to walk the timesheets over to Payroll to make sure they got there on time.
On DR's instructions.
2011-11-29 off sick.
November 29, 2011
1. In Epitome 1.7.20-23 Charybdis is mentioned 3 times but was only linked once as a place. While I realize the whirlpool is a place, in this context it is referring to the sea monster who was the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. There wasn't yet a character in the xml file, so I've updated this and linked all three references to Charybdis as a character. 2. In Library Book 1, 1.8.3 the Curetes was linked to the group of the dancing attendants of Rhea. But in this context, I believe it is referring instead to a group of men from the Curetian country (1.7.6) aka Aetolus. 3. In Library Book 1, 1.8.5 Pisander was linked to the character xml. While there is a Pisander who fights at Troy, I belief this reference is to the scholar Pisander who wrote the epic Heracleia -- as the reference is "But Pisander says" not unlike the earlier reference of "but Phereydes says" (1.4.3).
We thought of another request for the database display:
When displaying an atomic entry, MDH will add an option to click and see all the entries which contain that morpheme.
This will be useful in the Refer To Elders list, where we are often asking them to define a root. They may never have encountered the root in isolation, so they will need to see the words it occurs in.
The functionality will also be nice to have in the Finished Entries and All Entries lists, where entries with the same root don't always sort together alphabetically due to prefixes.
November 28, 2011
Emergency help request from JW took up most of the day, and I stayed late to catch up with other stuff.
More substantial faculty bios added on DR's instructions.
Over 600 new images (in three different sizes) have been added to the collection. These cover the BC 1858 and 1860-61 Despatches from London.
MDH wrote:
Should defs contain multiple seg+bibl blocks? Yes and no. Some such bracketings already usefully exist (such as in the entry for háypx̣), and I've just tweaked the display to make them render more cleanly; on the other hand, creating such collapsed defs is interpretive and takes time, and is not a priority right now. So the existing ones will be left, but SK will not create more.
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Here is some more clarification for future reference:
-homophones are separate entries
-multiple <sense>s are only used with multiple <form>s
-all other definitions will appear in a <seg> within a <def>
-SMK will not collapse multiple defs from here on: only one <seg> per <def>.
-multiple <bibl>s on a single <seg> in a <def> means an identical English definition was given by more than one consultant
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On 2Dec11, ECH and SMK decided to continue with two levels of distinction, as described above.
In entries with multiple <seg>s per <def>, MDH can programmatically split the <seg>s out into separate <def>s again.
SMK had compiled lists of the multi-def and single-def/multi-seg examples currently in the database. There was clearly some method to the madness of using three levels of distinction thus far, but SMK identified entries which might need further adjustments if we ever want to go to three levels.