Map of London project slipping a little because of the need to convert legacy documents.
September 26, 2011
The Guidelines doc is dispersed across various doc and pdf files, and should be a single XML document which will appear as HTML on the site. I've been working to convert it, but it's slow going. I've done one other site info document, and created a template for them. The need to fix XML issues and convert existing documents which should be XML but aren't is going to add about a week to this job, unfortunately.
Configured some indexes as well.
Meetings today with:
- JC (History): exploratory meeting about project for which SSHRC app is being prepared.
- WW (History): exploratory meeting about creation of a repository for audio, image and document data, which would require access restrictions involving non-UVic individuals.
- SA and GN, about our server strategy.
Added a boolean field called "unsigned" for poems where the author is not explicitly anonymous or unknown, but the poem is unsigned.
September 24, 2011
Learned something I didn't know today. When you run updates on an Ubuntu headless server, it doesn't tell you when a reboot is required; instead, it creates this file:
/var/run/restart-required
or:
/var/run/reboot-required
Check for the existence of that file. If it's there, do a reboot. It'll be removed during the reboot. I learned this when doing updates to teijenkins.
September 23, 2011
Out for an appointment in the morning, and left early.
The "original" map is now functional. I've also changed the way I'm handling pages and folders so that it's much simpler all round, and there's only one XSLT file. This is how it works, basically:
- All pages are now served from the root, with [xml:id].htm file names.
- All pages apart from the map pages are handled by
index.xql. - All pages apart from the map pages (which produce XHMTML directly) are passed through
general.xsl. - All links are simplified because all pages are served from the same directory.
- Bibliographic sources are working well.
Next steps:
- Literary references are supposed to work the same way as bibliographic references.
- BIBL1.xml should be in a subdirectory.
- The selected menu item should be highlighted when you're on one of the root pages.
- Remaining PHP pages need to be converted.
- List-of-ids page needs to be created (as a sortable table with lots of info).
- Site layout needs to be redesigned to be expandable and to use actual text.
Spent a few hours getting familiar with Jamie's code - in particular the jquery stuff. Made some trivial changes to the pagination output. Still need to look more closely at the data model and how the chart view / table view switching is done. Also will need to see if there's some way to make the labels on the x-axis easier to read as they are currently overlapping for data sets with lots of years in them.
Monday -2.0 csg pro-d, Wednesday +0.5 holding fort, Friday -1.0 csg
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launch the terminal and enter: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
hold option, click on Finder icon in dock
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to hide hidden files
launch the terminal and enter: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
hold option, click on Finder icon in dock
from popup menu, choose relaunch