HCMC Blogs

1.9.21 - ID209, Lycurgus (2) is mortal father of Opheltes (not mentioned in 1.9.21)
- Add group "Harpies"? Harpys/Nicothoe/Aellopus and Ocypete/Ocythoe/Ocypode are part of this group
- ID650-ID654, Zetes and Calais chase the Harpies (Aello and Aellopusm are mentioned, but not found in text, instead put Harpys/Nicothoe/Aellopus and Ocypete/Ocythoe/Ocypode?) "event/character/citation"
- ID655, Remaining Harpy flees (Ocypete is mentioned, add aliases Ocythoe and Ocypode?) "event/character/citation"
- ID656, Harpy falls from exhaustion (Ocypete is mentioned, add aliases Ocythoe and Ocypode?) "event/character/citation"
- ID227, Harpy falls from exhaustion (Echinadian Islands is mentioned, but these are also known as Strophades Islands, add this place also?) "event/place"
1.9.22 - ID210, Autolycus is mortal father of Polymede (not mentioned in 1.9.22)
1.9.23 - ID211, Hagnias is mortal father of Tiphys (not mentioned in 1.9.23)
- ID234/1252, Apsyrtus is son of Idyia and Aeetes (not specifically mentioned although he is the brother of Medea, is it o.k. to assume this?)
- Add event where Jason yokes the wild fire-breathing bulls in order to get the fleece?
- ID233, Medea gets Jason the Golden Fleece (misspelled "Colchis" as "Cholcis", change?)
1.9.24 - ID676, An island speaks to the Argonauts (the text says the ship spoke to them, change?)
- ID684/685, Butes swims off … settles him on Lilybaeum (not mentioned in 1.9.24, belongs in 1.9.25)
1.9.25 - Add group "Phaeacians"? (Alcinous is mentioned as being king)
1.9.26 - ID703, Pelias forces Aeson to kill himself … kills Promachus (not mentioned in 1.9.26, belongs in 1.9.27)
- Add event "Argo sails past" and place "Euboea and Locris"?
1.9.27 - ok
1.9.28 - ID1296/1881, Perses (2) is the son of Perseis and the Sun (Helios) (not mentioned in 1.9.28)

Confidential...

A bug has emerged in the handling of references which reference other references. This is how to reproduce it:

• Go to the Forest Nuptiale.
• Search for Braga, and click on the reference link.
• Inside that reference link, click on the link to Concile de Trente.
• Click on any other reference link in the document.

When the embedded Trente reference is shown, it's unformatted (paragraphs and links are missing). Thereafter, formatting is missing from any reference which shows up in the box. No idea why this is happening (yet), but we never predicted there would be references which are only linked from inside other references.

Got some metadata from CC, and created the XML file. Did the initial transcription of the legend (it'll have to be checked, of course), and added the metadata. Still missing a modernization of the legend (which I'm not equipped to do) and the teaser.

A new engraving has arrived, so I've gone through the process of cleaning it up and prepping it using the Gimp instead of Photoshop. This is the procedure, updated from the previous PS procedure:

• Archive the original image in a backup folder (backup, parallel to mariage_5).
• Open in Gimp. Previously we would have converted to RGB, but I see no reason to do that; I left this at grayscale. Save into the scans folder.
• Using the magic wand, select some background grey or speckle, and delete. Play around with this step until you've got a relatively clean image, without losing detail. You might also use Select / By Colour if that helps without deleting anything important.
• Clean up the edges of the image, along with any egregious surface marks in the picture.
• If there's a BN mark with a ruler, it can be moved in closer to the image sometimes, to keep the size down.
• Crop the image to remove excessive whitespace around the outside.
• Resize the image using Bicubic to create one 800px wide. Save this image at around 90% quality, for an image size of two to three hundred K, with the wv_ prefix, into the scans folder.
• Undo the resize to get back to the original image, then start selecting a thumbnail area; once the selection has started, press the Shift key to constrain it to a square. Copy the selection to the clipboard.
• Click on File / Create / From Clipboard to create a new thumbnail image.
• Resize this image to 200 x 200, then save to the images folder with the thumb_ prefix.
• Copy the main image file and the web view )wv_) file from scans to exist_db/mariage/anthology/images.
• Create a new XML file in exist_db/mariage/anthology/images linking to the full size image file in the same directory, and add all the metadata.
• Update the server directories and db.

I haven't created the XML file in this case yet, because I don't have any metadata at all about this image.

Update from last week -- DR did not forward his request on to Greg in response to my vacation message, so it hadn't been done.

KE sent a brief interview with the next speaker to add to the site.

Lots of admin and backlogged email to work through, then late duty, and stayed a bit later to actually achieve something concrete before leaving.

Updated changed files in the db; added the OAI files to SVN; and continued work on the OAI interface. I now have everything working except for the paging out of results with the resumption token, which I hope to complete tomorrow. Then I'll need to add better indexing for the OAI files, and we should be ready to go.

...who came on board today. Some time spent discussing projects and where to start.