FrancoToile

ES added about ten new videos and XML data files, so I had to create a thumbnail image for each. I ran each file in the player.xql file, stopped the video, captured a bit of the screen to a png file, edited that to 88x66 px (size that all of them seem to be) added them to the SVN repository, uploaded them to the production site and the copy of the site on my Mac.

While doing that, I noticed extraneous thumbnail files in the images (as opposed to the images/thumbnails) folder, so deleted those from the servers and from the repository.

ES noted that recent changes she'd made weren't appearing on the production site at francotoile.uvic.ca.
I had a connection in the exist admin client that used pear.hcmc.uvic.ca as the domain. I thought that would be dead, but when the connection succeeded, I assumed that domain name was forwarding to the current instance. Wrong. Obviously there is another instance somewhere on "pear" that is still running.

Created a new connection in the admin client using tomcat-devel.hcmc.uvic.ca as the domain and that worked. Also, the webapp in the new instance is francotoile and not francotoile21 as it was in the old instance.

In poking through the files, also noticed a connection string using lettuce.uvic.ca, so changed that to hcmc.uvic.ca and it seems to be working.

Updated the lastpass records.

1. ES added transcripts for fraq10, fraf6
2. ES has edited Liette's video, and given it to SA. Corresponding xml file has also been added.
3. ES asked SA to upload all new addition to the production site in order to see if edition with Audacity works fine.

1. SA found a solution with regards to cutting the soundtrack at the millisecond : Use Audacity! The program was installed on POMME.
2. ES entered & committed the transcripts for cltq3, fraq11, fraq12, fraq13

Back after a wee while!!

1. Links to video files were sent to Essen for his review before publishing them on the site.
2. SA and ES discussed the need of finding an editing software that allows cutting at the millisecond or hundredth of a second. ES suggested "Video Edit Master" which seems to be a free software. Ongoing.
3. Files in "media folder" POMME have been updated with the latest information existing on the server.
4. New xml files entered for pscf5, accf3, cltf6, fraf8
5. Transcript for cltq3 is done in txt format. Needs to be entered into xml file.

Last session on Francotoile (end of contract) - ES will continue to work on various aspects of the site on an irregular basis from now on.

Still to be done:
1) add the missing thumbnails to the following files on the website: fraf4, fraf5, fraf6, fraq7, fraq8, fraq9, fraq10, fraq11, fraq12, fraq13, ctlq2, cltq3, accq1, eduq1, edubc1
2) obtain the filter for the search function (transcript only or transcript+annotations). Once this is sorted, ES will prepare the three help files to go on the "info" page of the site.
3) annotations are to be added on the following transcripts: accf2, franb1, franb2, franb3, fraq3, fraq4, fraq5, fraq5, fraq6, pscf4, accq1, cltq2, cltq3, edbc1, eduq1 , fraf4, fraf5
4) annotated transcripts are to be added for the following files: fraf6, fraq7, fraq8, fraq9, fraq10, fraq11, fraq12, fraq13
5) The information displaying on the "info" page of the Francotoile should be updated (i.e. the help files and the RA names)
6) ES got a reply from another young lady from interested in being filmed for the project. She is in Québec currently and will get in touch when she return, early November. Still waiting for a response from a Quebecois writer.
7) At revision 218. Latest changes committed should be uploaded to the site.

1. Fifteen new and converted videos, shot in August and September 2012, were given to SA and added to the site.
2. ES created an xml file (no transcript) for each of them: accq1, cltq2, cltq3, edubc1, eduq1, fraf4, fraf5, fraf6, fraq7-13.
3. The following were reported and solved:
- the non-annotated transcripts for franb1 and franb2 were not displaying on the website (solved)
- the thumbnail for frac1 was missing (solved)
- the location for mixbc1 was indicating Québec instead of BC (solved)
- the latitude and longitude for fraf2 and eduf1 were those of France instead of Switzerland (solved)
4. At this stage, all videos have a corresponding xml file and should display on the website:
5. The following videos have a non-annotated transcript: accf2, franb1, franb2, franb3, fraq3, fraq4, fraq5, fraq6, pscf4
6. ES has prepared to help videos to get inserted on the Intro page of Francotoile. Checked how the video player was working with SA in order to prepare the last Help video. However there are some URL issues with the bookmarks and search functions. SA will look into this.
7. ES will send an email to Gary, Emilie and France to inform them that their video has been uploaded to the site.

Remaining hours on this contract: 7 hours 30

Old instance of francotoile was running Exist 1.5 and the structure required an odd "extra" instance of "francotoile/" in the URL to work properly.
New instance of francotoile runs in Exist 2.1 and has been restructured to not require the extra "francotoile/" in the URL.
Had sys-admins create a definition for francotest.uvic.ca and point it at the new instance and tested that. Then got them to use that same definition for francotoile.uvic.ca. Then they got rid of the definition for francotest.uvic.ca.
I still have to shut down the web-app of the old instance, as it's just wasting resources on the exist server now. I'll do that when Greg returns - likely we'll shut that instance down, get rid of all the files and archive them somewhere.

1. The problem of duplicated files mentioned in the previous blog post has been solved.
2. The inverted transcript for frac1 and frac2, as mentioned in previous blog post, has been corrected.
3. The problem with prmf6 mentioned in previous blog post has been solved.

4. ES and SA encountered a strange problem with the list of items in Keywords. Some items (grandes écoles, système éducatif français, classes préparatoires) are displaying in the list while not showing anywhere in the xml files. In the list these words have to be removed, and the items "musique" and "vie personnelle" should be translated into English.
SA solved the problem.

5. ES added the transcript for all videos that are available and on the site. Nine of them need to be annotated.
6. The [age] section of the search function, when selected on its own leads to an error message. However, when selected with another filter (e.g. [male] + [10-25]) the age filters functions properly. SA will look into this.

7. SA contacted Pat with regards to thumbnails. If this can be fixed quickly, it will be done before SA goes on vacation at the end of this week. Otherwise, the site will go live and thumbnails will be added at a later stage. SA will inform ES and CC.
8. ES noted an issue with the display of "there are no other video from". While the syntax in French has been fixed, now only "from Mali" or "du Mali" is displaying.
9. ES asked SA whether it could be possible to make a search within annotations optional so that the site user can choose to look for a word in the transcripts only or within the transcripts+annotations. In theory, this could be done. More discussion to follow if CC agrees with this idea.

Hours worked since beginning of August: 15