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Wrote the first draft of a proposal for the MVP pilot, and sent it to SR and JS for comments and to get some extra info.

Filed an SF ticket on the use and possible deprecation of attributes having data.word and data.key values, in favour of @ref and friends, with private urn schemes.

Met with ECH to work on SSHRC application.

I've done more updates and fixes to the location files, and transferred some data from /topics to /locations.

I've also got the basic setup for the "original" map working: the image map showing all the sections, and then the individual section display with navigation between sections. What remains to be done is the display of the locations as little stars. That's tomorrow's job.

Received current feedback/changes/additions from SB for website.
Started updating website with new information.

Several unexpected drop-ins and a huge amount of email.

I discovered today that backups from the db come down with all indents removed. That makes them not really useful as backups, or as a way to bring down a local copy of the files, to do search and replace etc.

Advice from the eXist list pointed me at webdav, which I haven't used before. This is partially useful. You can mount the db like this:

sudo mount -t davfs "http://localhost:8080/mapoflondon/webdav/db" "/home/mholmes/WorkData/english/map_of_london/webdav"

This gives you a folder which is readable, but of course not writable because it was mounted as root. You could edit as root, or copy the files to another location and edit them there; then you could upload them into the db in the normal way.

All of this roundaboutitude is convincing me we really need to be using SVN for our data. I'll speak to JJ about this tomorrow.

Spent the day working on getting the code to validate in the locations files. Found lots of problems caused by my conversion, which were easy to fix, and some other things which we'll have to watch out for elsewhere in the database, such as date/@value instead of date/@when, and person[@type='person'] instead of name[@type='person']. There are also two files (TRAN1 and TRAN2) which represented in the locations files (because they were in the index), but which actually have writeups in the topics subcollection; waiting for JJ's approval to move those writeups into the locations files.

GN and I also did some analysis of the "original" map setup. The XSLT output just creates an HTML map element, and the rest is done by JavaScript, so it should be fairly straightforward to reproduce it.

Task for MH: Please find out why note tags are interfering with alignment of chapter and page numbers in table of contents in Maladies des femmes text. Chapter and page numbers should be floating right.

EDIT by MDH: This task seems to have been obviated by two things: First, most of the notes included in the TOC should actually be <choice>/<sic>/<corr> or <choice>/<orig>/<reg> blocks, so there will be a lot fewer note buttons in the TOCs in any case. Second, including a note inside a linked page reference is impractical, because it's not clear what clicking on it could or should do -- show the note, or go to the page reference? So on balance, it makes more sense to attach notes to the text preceding floating page numbers, if there's actually a need for a note, but when the note is simply (for instance) noting an incorrect page number in the original, we can just use <choice>/<sic>/<corr>.

On late duty, and emails came in towards the end of the day that needed considered replies.