I have finished proofreading the Forest Nuptiale. All references, linguistic notes and arguments for the text have also been added.
Currently, I'm working on inputting and formatting the Greek transcriptions that hadn't been added in the Sonnet 1609.
Will be teaching new RA XML encoding this morning/afternoon.
Later today I have a meeting with ML about the creation and management of a legal bibliography, which we plan to do through Zotero. One initial stumbling block is the absence of a citation style (CLS) file for Canadian legal citations. There is a partially-developed one here, but it seems unfinished, and looks like it might be using CLS 1.0, which is currently supported only by Zotero 2.1 beta, not the stable release. That might be why it also shows as "invalid" in the Zotero style repository. I've written to the authors of the style to see what its status is. Meanwhile, I've learned a little about CLS and how to go about writing and distributing a style file (which is a set of instructions for rendering a biblio item or citation for display).
Update: I've heard back from one of the authors, and what I surmised was mostly correct; the English one in the repository is CSL 1.0, and there is also a French 0.8 version which is not yet in the repository. Both are not unfinished, but it looks as though the authors are still engaged, and would welcome collaboration.
As my first project at HCMC, I've been tasked with finishing Stewart's procedure for converting the raw data (as supplied by SD) to well-formed XML. Stewart did an admirable job changing a tab-delimited document into an almost-finished XML file using GREP and an exhaustive series of regular expressions. Since, however, the final steps involve populating elements based on the value of other elements (checked against a list of allowable values), I've decided - after talking with Martin and Greg - to use XSLT to finish off the procedure. I don't know XSLT, but since it will be an important part of my work here for the next eight months, this is a good opportunity to learn the language.
So the first step is to take the value of crime_text, figure out to which value it corresponds in the list of allowable crimes in the proofing RNG, and then use that value to populate crime_normalized. Then, crime_group will be populated based on the value of crime_normalized. respite_text and outcome_text will be massaged in a similar way, though respite doesn't have a respite_group (only _normalized).
Spent a good chunk of time learning my way around what's been done for the Bailey project, the XSLT language, and the specific data and code needs of this project. The consensus: writing a catch-all function in the XSL stylesheet to convert the *_text values to *_normalized values will be tough, so there will likely be the odd value that will need to be edited manually.
On late duty.
A further 1108 page-images have been added to the manuscript image browser, covering BC 1859 Despatches to London and Public Offices Part 1. Transcriptions are now being linked into these images.
Met with PAB and made these changes:
<notesStmt> in the <teiHeader>).<ref> tag so that one item can link directly to another in this wise:
<ref target="Nks1867-098v.xml"></ref>while preserving the normal functionality for external links.
oai_update.xq file, so that the <record> elements have the right schema and namespace data. I also realized that the <dc:identifier> element should contain a full working URL to the transcription file, so now it does.@xml:id attribute no longer appears on the <record> element when outputting it in response to a request.I'm now uploading the records to the main db, and I'll do the requisite testing on that using the online tool linked in my prior post. Once that's done, I'll consider it functional and ready for testing by the library folks.
Researched some suppliers of printed t-shirts in Victoria, and emailed them for quotes. I'm basing this on the Hanes 5280 t-shirt, which is (I hope) not too expensive, but not cheap and crappy. I've asked for quotes for 1, 2 and 3 colours, but I'm thinking the most likely scenario is a dark forest green with a white logo.
CC sent the last of the metadata, plus a transcription. It's now up on the site, but it will be annotated further by CC.
I now have the paging and resumptionToken functionality working, and I've started testing the repository output using this online tool. Mostly it's working fine, but I have two issues with validation of the output of ListRecords -- I'm storing the id of the document in an xml:id attribute in the record element, and that's not allowed; I have a broken xmlns:xsi attribute in some of the records caused by a now-fixed bug in the oai_update.xq; and the xsl:schemaLocation attribute seems not to be allowed (probably caused by the foregoing issue). I should be able to get these fixed by tomorrow; I'll have to regenerate all the OAI files, though, and then export/import them from my local machine to the Pear instance.