FrancoToile

Today I review the website and fix the problems for prmq3, prmq4, prmq6. it seems that unwanted value was added, like an extra X or an extra 1 on the timeline. For the files prmq1, prmq2, prmq5, vacq1 the transcript had to be added to the XML files, for some reason they don't appear. Stewart will look for the files lsrq1, the transcript do not appear, we only have the full text. I created the files ancf2 and it is ready to go on the website. I fix all the video that was too big. We had to changed the frame rates from current to 12. For june it will be good to review all the timeline and the video on the website, some seems to be not syncronize. Marie-Claude

Friday may 8, CHanged made to the video files eduf1.mov., fraf2.mov., cltf2.mov., mixh1.mov. and all the video files with the extension m4v. Following Stewart recommendation I review the XML data files, cltf1.xml, cltf2.xml. eduf1.xml,mixc1.xml, mixm1.xml. I will do the missing transcript. For veqf1.xml,fraf2.xml., fraf1.xml. All the files have been corrected and should work. MArie-Claude

Meeting with MCD today to discuss work to be done in Francotoile before second set of testing with screen capture technology- Number of hours left on previous IRG: 50 hours for MCD and 10 hours for LCC- TO DO: 1. prepare written document explaining process of video editing, text-encoding, etc 2. work with LCC to train her to replace MCD while away in QC (10 hours) 3. clean up site according to Stewart's email (what works/does work) 4. transcribe Ile Maurice videos and add to system (this will be used for LCC's training) 5. MCD and CC will meet before end of June to discuss future recordings. MCD will work at HCMC on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Francotoile if possible. MCD will be recording videos while in Quebec- CC

Uploaded about ten transcript and video files as requested by MCD. Turns out some of the video files are formatted incorrectly (m4v or mp4 instead of mov) and all of them have too high a frame/second rate and audio sampling rate, so the file sizes are huge. Also some of the data files contained errors, others had missing data and others had data from other recordings, so I noted those and sent an email to MCD, cc'd Greg in case he needs to help with the reprocessing of the video.

For future reference

Came across something that might work in place of the QT-based player.
JW FLV Media Player 4.3

Player homepage and download: http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/
API documentation: http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/FlashAPI

get_events.php gets the data for a specified article from the eXist db. It then invokes events.xsl to transform that raw xml to create a new instance of the javascript variable movie and populate it. Here's a snippet from the xsl file that generates the necessary code for an utterance which has a who attribute. The particDesc of that utterer is assumed by this code to contain only a pers and persName element and the text in the persName element.

<xsl:when test="@who">
<!-- get the value of the who attribute, which as a pointer to an id begins with a #, and strip the # -->
<xsl:variable name="utterer" ><xsl:value-of select="translate(@who,'#','')"></xsl:value-of></xsl:variable>
<!-- get the text of the particDesc node (remember to use the tei namespace) whose id matches what's in utterer -->
<!-- this call works down through the pers and persName elements within that particDesc element, there are no other elements or text -->
<!-- for particDesc instances that have more complex internals, I'll need to be more explicit in that particDesc selector -->
<xsl:value-of select="id(@start)/../@xml:id"/>.addEvent('<xsl:value-of
select="id(@start)/@absolute"/>','<xsl:value-of select="id(@end)/@absolute"/>',
'utterance', '<div class="interviewer"><xsl:value-of
select="//tei:particDesc[@xml:id = $utterer]" /> : <xsl:apply-templates/></div>', '<xsl:value-of select="@start"/>');
</xsl:when>

Here's a snippet of the output for two utterances, the first if the who attribute of the utterance is empty and the second if the who attribute of the utterance has a value that points to a particDesc/pers/persName element containing the text "interviewer"
test1t1.addEvent('00:00:00.000','00:00:06.420','utterance', ' text here', 'test1u0');
test1t1.addEvent('00:00:06.420','00:00:18.260','utterance', '<div class="interviewer">interviewer: text here . </div>', 'test1u1');

CC asked if we could make it possible to identify who spoke each utterance. First case: interviewer and subject; case two: multiple subjects.
I will add a particdesc element with xml:id = "interviewer" and then a who="#interviewer" attribute to the u element in the data file. That's TEI.

The very major headache is trying to figure out how those utterances get into a javascript array where they are accessed by the page. I can't figure that out. My hope is to modify the xslt so that some css attributes change for utterances by the interviewer, and then for that to be passed through into the javascript array. I may experiment first with the code that winds up as the transcript of the whole dialog as it has it's own xslt file (transcript_in_div.xsl).

MC continu to edit movies in fact I am finish and ready to start the XML files. MC transfer the video original data to the archive files.

CC made contact with linguists out east (G. Chevalier in Moncton and MJ Hamel in Halifax) for possible collaboration. GC is interested in contributing to database by adding Francophones from Acadia- MJH and CC are planning on using formal interface tests next term to evaluate the site in terms of ergonomics and userbility- Cc will be meeting with both scholars in from nov 12 to 17th.

MCD started working at the HCMC lab again. Most of her hours were spent learning to use the new Imovie and editing the videos. CC will provide the documents that were filled by the informants so that we can update our database and start working on the XML file. MCD will be typically be at the HCMC labs on Mondays from 12 til 3 or 4pm.