Recordings of participants' interaction with the site began on Monday. Each participant spends an hour performing various micro-tasks that are supposed to direct him/her to using various functions of the site. So far, it is clear that the search function is completely under-utilized. Focus groups discussions will be necessary to explain this phenomena. It is also clear that we need to make the video page more user-friendly as this is where most participants tend to spend their time.
More later...
February 10, 2010
January 23, 2010
We are about to set up a third experimentation of the site. After visiting the class on January 25th, students will come one by one and perform specific tasks while their path within the site will be recorded using a screen-capture device. we are trying to test the ergonomic value of the site.
October 26, 2009
Copied all the xml files from the eXist db to my machine (for backup) and then to LCC's computer for her to edit. Also copied the schema file and the appropriate folder structure so that all the pointers work. Showed her how they're set up and she's on it.
September 11, 2009
If Database has not been started, user will see "error 2 unable to connect to database"
To restart or start the eXist server
- open a Terminal window
ssh florevid@lettuce.tapor.uvic.ca '/home1t/florevid/eXist/bin/server.sh'
To shutdown the eXist server
- open a Terminal window
ssh florevid@lettuce.tapor.uvic.ca '/home1t/florevid/eXist/bin/shutdown.sh'
July 27, 2009
MC keeps the transcript xml files in a subfolder in the Francotoile user on Endive (e.g. fraf1.xml). I copied those to the /Users/sarneil/Documents/Projects/french/FrancoToile/data_input/francotoile_transcripts folder on StewsSlab. From there I used the Exist client to upload them to the database:
username: admin
password: in usual place for HCMC
URL: xmldb:exist://lettuce.tapor.uvic.ca:8890/xmlrpc
once you're in, go into the francotoile/data/francotoile collection, where you'll see the dozens of XML files in the collection and use the button whose icon is a page with a plus sign to upload the file(s).
June 11, 2009
MCD edited about a dozen xml files and two quicktime files, so I copied them from her computer to mine, then uploaded the xml files into the eXist db and the quicktime files into the site.
May 28, 2009
This week,
I review all the files and finish the missing transcript with Catherine. All the video should be in the good format. The files 2008 are finish, fraf1, eduf1,fraf2, veqf1, cltf1, cltf2, cltf3,.
The files prmq1 and vacq1 have the good transcipt.
We only have to review the transcipt for prmf4.
The files mixm1, mixc1, mixc2, mixc3 are not done wet I will use those for Lauren training.
Marie-Claude
May 14, 2009
Today after the recommendation of Stewart I review some files that appear to have porblem.
1- I fix the file veqf1.xml.
2- I finish the prmq2.xml This file is ready for the website.
3- The files prmq1 xml and prmq3.xml Had the same Data. Now prmq3.xml Is the proper one and prmq1.xml miss the transcription.
4- Even with the change that I made on all the mov. files it seems that fraq2.mov and mixh1.mov do not appear on the site.
5- I did somme minor change on Ancf2.xml.
6-I fix prmq3.xml. This files had an extra value on the timeline.
7- The problem with the 2 same Files prmf4.xml and prmf5.xml. Now according to the video prmf5.xml is the propr one, so prmf4.xml is missing the transcipt.
8-I code, according to the movie files and the xml, the transcript files, for a better coherence.
9- I review all the website and I find the problem for the video or tanscript that don't work except the mov. files fraq2.mov and mxh1.mov.
May 13, 2009
MCD reported that in the file lsqr1, the timed transcripts did not appear, but the full text did. After a couple of hours of investigation, I discovered the cause (which had an obvious fix of removing the extra "x"). The file lsqr1 contained this:
<u start="xlsrq1u2" end="lsrq1u3">
and it should have contained this:
<u start="lsrq1u2" end="lsrq1u3">
This error didn't cause a problem with validation (naturally). When the XSLT that creates the javascript for the timelines and events encountered this (get_events.php page calls events.xsl), it wrote out javascript that pointed to a nonexistant object, included no start time and pointed to a non-existant id for the next utterance (all based on the erroneous start value).
Here's the wrong javascript output:
.addEvent('','00:00:29.130',
'utterance', ' UTTERANCE .... ', 'xlsrq1u3');
Here's the javascript generated after the fix:
lsrq1t1.addEvent('00:00:23.520','00:00:29.130',
'utterance', ' UTTERANCE ... ', 'lsrq1u3');
When the page executed that code it threw a syntax error and the movie object was never defined so that's why the transcripts didn't appear.
Uploaded seven .mov files recently modified by MCD and all the data files.
I couldn't find about four data files she edited last summer. I did find earlier versions of those files, and my backups and the server backups all contained those files, as did the archive on the computer she'd used to do the editing, so I don't know where those files went. MCD will re-enter the timestamps for those files.
Also found two files (prmf4 and prmf5) that were virtually identical, including using the same document ID, which caused the site to fail if either of those files were viewed or searched. Fixed the duplicate ID, so the site mechanically works.
Found following oddities in the playback:
sngl1 : video ok, "a suivre" appears for the transcript
sngl2 : video ok, "a suivre" appears for the transcript
lsrq1 : video ok, no transcript appears
prmq1 : video ok, wrong transcript appears
prmq2 : video ok, no transcript appears
prmf5 : duplicate of prmf4
prmf4 : video ok, wrong transcript appears
cltf1 : video ok, no transcript appears
cltf2 : video ok, wrong transcript appears
eduf1 : video ok, wrong transcript appears
mixc1 : video ok, no transcript appears
mixm1 : video ok, no transcript appears
veqf1 : video ok, no transcript appears
Some of these may be data problems and some caching and indexing. MCD will go through and see.