FrancoToile

Separated the components for the simple and advanced search interfaces, cleaned up their names and ids and rewrote code on the search page to handle both, so the advanced is ready for testing and the simple continues to work

Figured out that the xml data files are missing a broadcast/bibl/ref element with a target attribute, which is what the xslt uses to get the name of the media file. Added that to the test file (accf1), uploaded that to the eXist db on lettuce and the standard view, search, bookmark and download functionality now works. Let Catherine and Marie-Claude know.

This structure:

<recording type="video">
<date value="2006-08-28">28 aôut 2006</date>
</recording>

must be replaced by this structure:

<recording type="video">
<date value="2006-08-28">28 aôut 2006</date>
<broadcast>
<bibl>
<ref target="media/accf1.mov">Les Accents par Jean Olivier Héron</ref>
</bibl>
</broadcast>
</recording>


Marie-Claude and Catherine in on Thr 11th and Thr 18th to mark up more transcripts. Video files in .mov format. Told her I'm unable to display media file and unable to display transcript, let alone provide new functionality yet.

Thank you Stewart for your help with the technological description of FrancoToile. I sent a 4 pages proposal to Ed-Media on Dec 16th and we should receive an answer around mid-February. Another proposal was sent to APFUCC to which Marie-Claude and myself will be going. Answer expected mid-January. Happy New Year to all, Catherine

Reviewed state of FrancoToile project with Catherine: one data file done, others in production; currently site is not displaying video file, nor transcript. Made couple of text changes to site. Backed up data files from desforge and francotoile accounts on Spartan to my mac - not sure which of those files are the current ones.

At Catherine's request, I wrote a couple of hundred words on the technological infrastructure used in the FrancoToile site. Based on Mike Elkink's tech docs for Lansdowne Videos, plus additional text explaining briefly what each technology does and the relationships amongst them in language aimed at non-technical audience. Also looked up sites for each of the technologies mentioned and included the URLs

Discussed a couple of questions with Catherine and Marie-Claude on appropriate use of "keyword" elements technical constraints their use. Also discussed proposal for Ed-Media conference. I will write one paragraph on the technological infrastructure used to implement the site.

Converted two files to mov format for Catherine as iMovie didn't like them. First pass created no audio because the mpg container had a muxed stream inside it - weird. Couldn't use FinalCut or QT Pro to do it as they didn't recognize the muxed container as being traversable. Used MPEG-Streamclip instead, which rocks. Transferred files to spartan for Cathereine and Marie-Claude to work on.

Went through data files with Catherine and Marie-Claude to clean up problems with attributes to timestamps and language identity. Required checking the TEI specifications online. Did some testing on including links in notes and in the transcription text and reported on that too. Still getting same errors as in previous post, even with validated data files. Will look into that next.

Grabbed raw and processed video files from Spartan to my Mac and then uploaded processed files to the media folder in the FrancoToile site. Grabbed one xml data file and uploaded it into the FrancoToile collection. When I choose Watch, the title of the new video appears in list of videos, but I'm unable to display .mov file or transcript. I haven't investigated why, but other files are .mp4 When I try to search, I get Error Code: 8 Error Message: Undefined index: gender_select File: /home1t/florevid/www/search.php Line: 9 which makes some sense, as that's an element added with the new data file that didn't exist with the old data files, and I've written no code to handle the new data elements. Also answered a few questions from Catherine and Maric-Claude and set them up to use this blog.