Administration

Isolation log week 24:
Work done from home 2020-08-24 to 2020-08-28.

Week 24 total hours: 35.5

G & T hours: 0.5

Monday 2020-08-24

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
4.00 hours: Wendat: Add canonical reference sources as @n attributes in bibliography; build bibl items as @source values into project schema. Move listing of abbreviations in the various languages out of the schema/ODD and into three separate files. Reorganization of the build process Lots more work needed here.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Weekly project meeting.
0.25 hours: Pro-D: Investigating XPath in JavaScript in the browser. Potentially very useful.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Pre-tagging of word-processor version of new vol 28 article that's a rush job; setup of XML document, and tagging of metdata.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-08-25

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: Maint: Reconfiguring office, moving furniture, re-setting up computer for new safety protocols ahead of return to work.
1.50 hours: Maint: Update machines, update Windows VM, attempt to configure Windows VM to run Windows Subsystem for Linux for testing purposes (no joy).
1.50 hours: Scancan: Encode 10.5-page bibliography for vol 28 rush-job article.

Total: 5.25 hours

Wednesday 2020-08-26

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
3.00 hours: Scancan: Encode urgent vol 28 article, rebuild site, upload, let author and editor know.
0.50 hours: MyNDIR: Confirm current site working well; back up old site on Squash and locally; undeploy old site on Tomcat-devel.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Diagnosed and reported on one bug; fixed two others.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: A bit of refactoring for change of publisher; rebuild of H5 PDF; consideration of how we might best encode publisher info in the source XML rather than in the build process.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Working on Stow rendering problem with running headers.

Total: 7.25 hours

Thursday 2020-08-27

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Extract and process larger printable version of image for vol 28 article from author's PDF.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Chase obscure build break which turned out to be caused by XPath being used instead of CSS Selector code.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting; parameterization of publisher/series info in such a way that we can generate a PDF for any prospective publisher including their info; reset to original paper size; change display of blockquotes.
0.25 hours: Keats: Diagnose build break and contact KB re fixing it.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Consultations with RAs on various documentation issues, use of foreign tag, distinctions between verse-dramas and poems.
2.75 hours: Wendat: Setting up XML pre-processing framework; long project meeting on Zoom.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2020-08-28

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML/LEMDO: Debugging build break, helping programmers run partial builds, adding svn users.
1.50 hours: TEI: Work on @calendar feature request, meeting with SB to work on Stylesheets tests.
3.00 hours: Wendat: Recoded harvesting of abbreviations into listings pages; parameterized more bits of the new build process.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Add handling for @xml:lang.
0.50 hours: Wendat: XSLT and Bash script to rename images and refactor XML to remove problem caused by duplicate images in JCB MS.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Work on bugfixes for the upcoming release.

Total: 8.00 hours

Isolation log week 23:
Work done from home 2020-08-17 to 2020-08-21.

Week 23 total hours: 36.00

G & T hours: 1.00

Monday 2020-08-17

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Implement note processing within character lists for print volumes; rename and deploy facsimile image set; comment/push forward various other Asana tickets.
0.25 hours: TEI: Some Jenkins housekeeping related to the upcoming release.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Responses to final tweaks to a footnote to a vol 27 article; resulting edits; fix for Schematron rule to allow en dashes in publisher names.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: fix for issue #71.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Project meeting and ticket triage.
3.00 hours: DVPP: Timesheets, discussion on revisionDesc, Zoom meeting with AC to plan release, implementing of some new features for release.

Total: 6.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-08-18

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Yet one more tweak to a contentious footnote, build of PDFs, publication of site.
0.25 hours: TEI: Update to oxygen-tei repo build process to include retrieval of jars now required due to AJ's pull request.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Diagnose and fix overnight build break (my fault from yesterday's work).
0.25 hours: Moses: Outline plan for extracting cits from entries and request review from ECH and SMK.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Discussion/proposal for RAs to start adding dominant rhyme-scheme encoding to remaining poems.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Scan through PDF bug reports ahead of afternoon meeting.
2.00 hours: HCMC: Staff Zoom meeting.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: KEED/PDF feedback review and ticket triage with JJ and RM.
0.25 hours: Endings/MyNDIR: Test repointed myndir.uvic.ca domain; inform Trish it's working; write brief announcement for Endings site.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Feedback/discussion on assigning dominant rhyme schemes to poems.
1.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: ticket triage, adding semantic versioning to release build process, testing previous fixes, bugfix for cases where a boolean filter has no member documents.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2020-08-19

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: Release day, so involved in build debugging and Jenkins work all day. Fixes to Oxygen plugin, reconfiguration of Jenkins jobs, and post-release tweaks in dev branch.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Last timesheet submission, and sent this batch to AC.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Adding framework site pages; getting banner, menu, footer and bilingual build basically working.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Training session/ticket work with LS.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Dealing with fallout for the build process from changes to TEI branch names.
0.50 hours: TEI: Reconfiguring teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca jobs to conform with new setup.
0.50 hours: Admin: Dealing with email.

Total: 6.50 hours

Thursday 2020-08-20

0.50 hours: Update Jenkins servers; some hardening of user accounts; check for FritzFrog attack; report to team. All clear.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Phone call with JJ, project meeting with team.
0.50 hours: Scancan: Yet more edits to vol 27 article, build and deploy latest site version.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Write, test and deploy utility to parse the svn log and generate a spreadsheet of documents for proofing, ahead of the 6.5 release proofathon.
3.50 hours: Wendat: Bilingual site setup and build is now working, with established and tested approaches to providing bilingual content for info pages and captions.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2020-08-21

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Debug and fix schema validation error.
1.75 hours: TEI: Working with SB to fix Stylesheets Test2 errors. More to do here.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Asana tickets, fixes for punctuation and new Schematron, and other workaday formatting fixes for release.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: More discussion of lists and list rendering.
3.25 hours: MoEML: Solution to the problem of whitespace/indenting when rendering egXML contents on Praxis pages. Refactor XSLT to allow quick test builds of entities as well as regular pages; fix two outstanding bug tickets.

Total: 8.00 hours

Isolation log week 22:
Work done from home 2020-08-010 to 2020-08-14.

Week 22 total hours: 37.25

G & T hours: 2.25

Monday 2020-08-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Catch up with email, TEI tickets, etc.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Add three new diagnostic processes, and improve reporting on all diagnostic lists.
0.50 hours: Scancan: Enter editor corrections for vol 28 article; fix Schematron rule; fix vol 26 error now caught by revised Schematron.
2.75 hours: MoEML: Main project meeting, followed by smaller meeting to triage all issues in preparation for 6.5 release.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Dump db from server and regenerate TEI for Woman's World.
0.50 hours: Keats: Build and release new edition; bump edition number.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Project meeting on Zoom.
0.25 hours: Moses: Debugging minor regex issue for SK.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Planning and preparatory work for automatic calculation of dominant rhyme-scheme.

Total: 7.75 hours

Tuesday 2020-08-11

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: Stylesheets Working Group session (6am).
0.50 hours: Catch up with email, Asana tickets, etc.
1.25 hours: HCMC: Zoom Staff meeting.
1.50 hours: DVPP: XPath/XQuery investigation of rhyme encoding, and lengthy email discussion to figure out algorithm for rhyme-scheme work.
0.25 hours: Scancan: Proofing tweak to vol 27 article; discussion on capitalization issue.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Debug and fix build break due to encoding error (nested regnal dates).
0.50 hours: HCMC: Deep dive into B2Evo to figure out if we can aggregate posts by category into RSS for Cascade site widget. Seems not.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Include document status in suitable format in each of the citation form outputs for "Cite this page", per Asana FR.
1.25 hours: DVPP: Extending/enhancing XPath functions for manipulating complex rhyme schemes.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2020-08-12

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Debugging overnight build break; fixing encoding issue.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: First test of new tf-idf scoring feature with Keats, in preparation for merging pull request from JT.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Adding Schematron rules and fixing found errors for note contents and positions.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Editor's final proofing corrections and capitalization fixes for volume 27. Pushed a new version of the site to the server.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Discussion on proofing feedback from publisher.
3.00 hours: DVPP: Extending/enhancing XPath functions for manipulating complex rhyme schemes; writing code and tests to generate rhyme-scheme report in each poem; discussion of workflow relating to identification and tagging of closed-form poems.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Skype with LS: training and ticket work.
0.25 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Updates to documentation in pull request; checking tests in Keats; merging pull request.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Debugging more build-breaking issues with new rhyme-handling code. One remaining unsolved.

Total: 7.75 hours

Thursday 2020-08-13

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Debug and fix obscure error when processing 164-line stanza rhyme-scheme; more discussions/emails on rhyme vs stanza form vs genre.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Triage on remaining issues for 1.0 release milestone and discussions with JT.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Ticket discussions and project meeting.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Ticket discussions.
3.75 hours: Wendat: Begin major reorg of site build process, XSLT, etc., to support upcoming work. Integrate bilingual site options.

Total: 7.25 hours

Friday 2020-08-14

1.00 hours: Update Jenkins servers. Do a detailed examination of the new 20.04 after a week of steady service, and re-enable disabled packages, checking results; document result on the blog.
0.75 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB and work on rewrite of Stylesheets tests.
1.50 hours: Scancan: More final proofing fixes for vol 27; integrated TOC into cover and sent to HT for approval.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Update TEI for Chambers from MySQL DB data.
0.50 hours: Scancan: Create favicons, add to site build, and test locally.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Rebuild PDFs; start debugging PDF build problem with AYL; send generated duplicate gloss reports to JJ.
2.50 hours: DVPP: Write XSLT to detect completely regular rhyme-schemes and auto-assign a dominant rhyme-scheme value; test, debug, and run on one periodical; analyze, then run on two more periodicals; report results to team.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 21:
Work done from home 2020-08-04 to 2020-08-07 (4-day week).

Week 21 total hours: 29.25

G & T hours: 1.25

Tuesday 2020-08-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Planning LS's training and work for August in email.
0.25 hours: Oxygen: Test new build with fix for auto-complete bug we've been waiting for. Appears to be fixed.
0.50 hours: Maint: Update HCMC office desktop and software, including Windows VM.
1.50 hours: HCMC staff meeting.
1.00 hours: Catching up with email, backups, updating repos etc. at HCMC.
1.00 hours: Endings: Project in-person meeting outside UVic Library.
0.50 hours: MyNDIR: Fix a sorting problem with accented characters reported by PAB: she elected to strip diacritics before sorting bibl entries.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Finish implementing special font to provide three-em-dash for Macs which can't find it for themselves.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Encode all French abstracts and French version of editor's intro for vol 27. Report a couple of issues to HT.
0.25 hours: Moses: Work on classifying various uses of straight quotes, which will need to be converted into tagging.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Completion and submission of RAs' timesheets.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2020-08-05

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Email check-in re planning for the fall release.
0.50 hours: Admin: registration for UBC online conference presentation.
4.00 hours: Wendat: Annotating document outlining required fields for reconstructed form encoding; building initial trial encoding examples; modifications to schema to support this. FR on TEI repo for the pron element to be added to att.typed, after TEI-L discussion.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Fixes for two tickets: more effective discrimination between large and very large tables for rendering on various screen sizes, and removal of RSS feeds from the build process, since we no longer want to maintain them.
1.25 hours: MoEML: Training session with LS, looking through Asana tickets that have piled up, and planning his future work.
1.00 hours: Endings: Retrieve all static site content, turn remotely-reffed things into local copies, update news page, and fix some invalidities (more to do). Add this content to the GitHub repo. Then fail to update the actual site, because everything's currently p0wned by gregster. :-(

Total: 8.25 hours

Thursday 2020-08-06

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Diagnose overnight build break causing nested HTML links, raise Asana ticket, fix bug and test.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Final tweaks to abstracts to make them fit on the page properly; build site and publish; report back to HT; confirm with her that special font fix for three-em-dashes on Macs has actually worked.
0.50 hours: Moses: Switching things marked with quotes to term elements, and adding rendering for them in the PDF.
0.75 hours: HCMC/Admin: Working through COVID-19 online course, and discussions/feedback on the return-to-work plan.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting, getting back up to speed, looking through tickets; work on issue of footnotes in character lists.
3.00 hours: Wendat: Fix for keyboard shortcut failing on Windows; more work on encoding of reconstructed forms; project meeting extended to discuss that work.

Total: 7.75 hours

Friday 2020-08-07

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Debug and fix problem with pointer in print rendering.
1.00 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB to plan next week's Stylesheets Group meeting.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Implementing a couple of tickets; investigating and commenting on a couple of others.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Added documentation covering pointer anchor issues.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Ultimately fruitless search for authoritative guidance on various dash lengths and their usage in early modern typography.
2.50 hours: Wendat: Encode project bibliography (initial set); write elementary rendering for it; modify xpath function for keystroke shortcut, and add two more shortcuts; report to team.

Total: 5.75 hours

Isolation log week 17:
Work done from home 2020-07-06 to 2020-07-10.

Week 17 total hours: 39

G & T hours: 4

Monday 2020-07-06

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: DVPP timesheets.
0.50 hours: DVPP: switch signature facsimile category from illustration taxonomy to typeface taxonomy per AC; deal with processing and validity fallout.
2.00 hours: Wendat: Encoded the remaining 100+ reconstructed form tables.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Project meeting, and documentation of the static build process.
0.50 hours: ColDesp: Create new What's New page and fill it with content, ahead of the next release.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Project meeting.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Debug missing keystroke shortcut for RA.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Refresh Once a Week metadata from db and run XQueries to discover anomalies for AC.
0.25 hours: Wendat: discussions about successful grant application, steps, planning and incoming datasets.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Add new VIAF boolean filter to the people search page per AC.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Refresh Good Words metadata from db and run XQueries to discover anomalies for AC.

Total: 8.00 hours

Tuesday 2020-07-07

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: Stylesheets group meeting on the build circularity problem (6am).
0.75 hours: MoEML: Finished first draft of documentation of build strategies for programmers.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Rebuild metadata in Atalanta and Once a Week, and run queries to identify anomalous illustration encoding.
1.25 hours: HCMC Zoom meeting.
0.50 hours: CGWP: Abortive interface test: wasn't able to get registered.
0.50 hours: ColDesp: Testing and discussion of issues in release scheduled for this week.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Writing and testing new diagnostics on illustrations/figures.
1.00 hours: MyNDIR: Adding "Cite this page" feature; reorganizing the footer and credits.
2.00 hours: ColDesp: Pre-release site testing and bugfixing.

Total: 9.00 hours

Wednesday 2020-07-08

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: ColDesp: Check overnight build, and circulate suggestions for the one remaining pre-release bug we need to address today.
2.00 hours: DVPP: Debug and fix issue with search page; post related ticket on staticSearch repo; create and circulate plan for handling detecting and encoding dominant rhyme-schemes.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Add CC image to footer build and test; switch edition to 2.0b.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Fix more bugs emerging from today's testing.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Take archived version of version 6.3 and post it on the site for archival purposes.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Debugging issues with print output. One big problem remaining: fragmented quotes.
1.25 hours: MoEML: Training session with LS, getting pyserve script set up on his Mac.
0.75 hours: ColDesp: Fixing late-breaking bug where @key attribute value was being expressed in text.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Turn off old eXist/Jetty app; make archive copy in nfs/holmes/archive; let sysadmin know they can remove the webapp so it doesn't get started again accidentally.

Total: 7.75 hours

Thursday 2020-07-09

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Follow-up action on validation problem on Windows: delete extra unwanted validation scenario; implement and test solution to fragmented quotation issue in PDF output.
0.50 hours: ColDesp: Final check through overnight build prior to release; publish of 2.1; update edition in repo to 2.2a.
1.25 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting.
0.25 hours: GRS/Latin: Remove obsolete exercise, retitle/rename others, build unit and publish, per MN.
1.00 hours: HCMC/Cascade: Turn on RSS feed in blogs; fix obsolete RSS URL in blog feed widget; rewrite XSLT to accommodate Atom rather than RSS; test; publish, and wonder why it works in Cascade but not when published. Message to HCMC team.
3.00 hours: Wendat: Early work on schema design for reconstructions; project meeting and planning in the light of the grant award.
0.25 hours: MyNDIR: Two tweaks and rebuilds per PAB.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2020-07-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Hot Potatoes: Debug and fix (for future release) character encoding issue in French config file reported by user.
0.25 hours: TEI: Raise new feature request arising out of discussion on TEI-L: @status to be available on entity elements such as person, needed for many of our projects.
1.50 hours: TEI: Work with SB on updating Jenkins build jobs to function with the new system for p5subset/Stylesheets alignment.
1.00 hours: Email: HCMC server-related, Endings, and various housekeeping issues.
4.00 hours: DVPP: Fill in details of putative plan for computing/encoding dominant rhyme-scheme in a poem. Finalize plan for removing illustrationNone catRefs; implement and document the results. Add new value to revisionDesc/@status and build it into the SQL-to-TEI. Rework the rhyme-finding tool.

Total: 7.25 hours

Isolation log week 16:
Work done from home 2020-06-29 to 2020-07-03.
(4 working days; 2020-07-01 is a vacation.)

Week 16 total hours: 30.75

G & T hours: 2.75

Monday 2020-06-29

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Maint: Test new release of TEI JEdit plugin.
0.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Testing out wildcards in MoEML; rethinking the current approach; mapping out an alternative on the Issue 43 ticket for JT to look at.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Update db files in svn; generate TEI for new FMN 1830 poems; OCR those poems; update stats again.
1.25 hours: MoEML: Add diagnostic to catch document categories with no members; rewrite Agas/mapping diagnostic; regularize tagging of "MoEML" and project full title.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Debug problems annotation of large hierarchy-crossing spans, and report issue with validation on Windows to see if Oxygen team has any suggestions.
4.00 hours: DVPP: Project meeting; completion of first implementation of new facsimile viewer.
0.25 hours: Emails and housekeeping.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-06-30

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Fix invalid URL strings in facs browser; answer query from AC using XQuery; tweaks to XSLT.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Fix remaining cases of MoEML tagged as title; add and test Schematron rule.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Meeting planning for HTML rendering; more debugging of schema path problem on Windows.
2.00 hours: HCMC Zoom meeting and follow-up.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Debug issue with search filters; set up framework for rhyme analysis code.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Test new site now deployed at project subdomain; debug and fix build problem resulting from deployment.
0.50 hours: PAAS: Read and respond to RF's grant application reviews and further proposal.
1.50 hours: DVPP: Finish first rhyme-scheme analysis algorithm (poems whose first stanza rhyme-scheme is unique).
0.25 hours: GRS: Latin Wheelock site correction per MN.

Total: 7.75 hours

Wednesday 2020-07-01

VACATION

Thursday 2020-07-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Update PDF versions on Drive.
1.00 hours: Moses: Convert one subset of single-quote usages to soCalled elements, and modify processing in webapp and PDF to output curly quotes. Examine next set of single-quote usages and frame questions for ECH before proceeding.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: More work on debugging two Oxygen issues (one solved, one still ongoing); set up TEH so she can build and "release" (on GDrive) PDFs, in case I'm not available.
0.75 hours: Keats: Roll back wildcard testing work and move project to staticSearch dev branch, then build, test and release version 3.0 per KB.
1.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Refactoring to change names of variables, files and functions in order to clarify and standardize nomenclature before moving forward with second implementation of wildcard search.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Debug and fix issue with trailing space in @ana attribute.
0.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting.
3.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Refactor namespace prefixes for clarity; implement production of wordList text file and retrieval by JS object; implement second approach to wildcard searching and test; local build of MoEML to test.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2020-07-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: Meeting to plan a solution to the build circularity issue (cross-dependency between P5 and Stylesheets).
1.50 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB to implement decisions of previous meeting, and document everything for Council.
2.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: testing yesterday's work with various projects; adding sanity checks to prevent runaway searches; updating documentation to cover new features.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting re Web products, with prep and follow-up editing of notes.
0.50 hours: MAINT: Checking into the status of databases on Mango prior to shutdown.

Total: 8.00 hours

Isolation log week 15:
Work done from home 2020-06-22 to 2020-06-26.

Week 15 total hours: 37.25

G & T hours: 2.25

Monday 2020-06-22

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Proofing corrections to 11 articles and reviews, along with vol 27 PDF rebuild and site publication.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Investigating our linkchecker and why it's not running; testing alternatives; fixing some links; troubleshooting problems revealed by bad links.
3.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: First pass at implementing wildcard searching. Now requires constraints and sanity checks.
0.50 hours: Scancan: More investigation of possibilities for three-em dash problem on Macs.
0.25 hours: Research: Investigating background and tech choices for a potential project brought by US.

Total: 8.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-06-23

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: Latin: Fix crossword error reported by user, and change email address for reporting errors on site.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Create special font for em dashes, and implement site changes; fix other site display bugs.
1.25 hours: HCMC Zoom meeting.
0.75 hours: MyNDIR: Fixes for button caption; tried something clever but ended up doing something simple to avoid JS instead.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Fix three bugs/remaining issues in wildcard functionality; add new tests; update various config files and test; try to reproduce error seen by JT, but no joy yet.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Debugging and fixing an obscure build breaker for TEH.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Investigation/discussion with LS about whitespace in names broken across page-breaks. Gnarly problem.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Transformations to fix missing @rhyme attributes across about half the collection (avoiding periodicals RAs are working on now).

Total: 7.00 hours

Wednesday 2020-06-24

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.50 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Squashing the final bugs in wildcard searching; testing with Keats; discussions of further strategies.
1.25 hours: LEMDO/MoEML: Skype with TEH re per-portfolio diagnostics on LEMDO and possible MoEML release on Friday. Tweak to per-portfolio diagnostics.
0.25 hours: GRS/Latin: Fix for errors and slight reorganization of crossword in Wheelock unit 20 per user feedback and MN.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Skype with LS, along with fixes for some diagnostic issues ahead of the sprint tomorrow.
2.00 hours: DVPP: Remediation of sonnet rhymes in remaining five periodicals; discussion and planning for a proper facsimile viewer system, based on JSON. Initial exploratory code, and reports of metadata anomalies revealed by it for AC to look at.

Total: 7.25 hours

Thursday 2020-06-25

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Wendat: Remediation of another 100+ reconstructed form entries prior to integration into XML.
1.00 hours: Maint: In HCMC upgrading my desktop, doing backups, fielding mail etc.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meeting.
2.00 hours: MoEML: Pre-release day. Checking the built site, bugfixing, tweaking, cleaning out the target folder on the server.
1.75 hours: Wendat: Project meeting, follow-up tweaks to schema and shortcuts; finished encoding reconstructed forms up to 472.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Work on facs viewer JSON.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2020-06-26

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: TEI: Meeting with SB, working on a Stylesheets issue.
6.00 hours: MoEML: It's 6.4 release day, so spent the whole day testing and tweaking, interspersed with other work.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 14:
Work done from home 2020-06-15 to 2020-06-19.

Week 14 total hours: 37.75

G & T hours: 2.75

Monday 2020-06-15

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Catch up with weekend email.
1.75 hours: MoEML: working on differential stats for release notes; project meeting.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Meeting with JJ and R re design issues.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Dump dbs on server; refresh TEI for Chambers series poems per AC; Blue Jeans planning meeting with AC.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Debug and fix (hopefully) obscure bug which was rendering multiple copies of sender and recipient names in citation content.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Working on display bug in Chrome and font issue on OSX.
0.75 hours: Moses: Began the process of regularlizing apostrophes, ready for turning single-quoted things into tags.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-06-16

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: Moses: fix apostrophes per ECH.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Add table headers to stats page, in preparation for adding extra counts.
0.25 hours: GERU: Discussions with US over email about possible collaboration with US University on vocab tool.
1.50 hours: HCMC Zoom meeting.
0.25 hours: ColDesp: Some debugging of results from yesterday's fixes; more to do there.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Debug mysterious diagnostic entry, fix, and add better explanation to diagnostics.
0.50 hours: DVPP: RA timesheets; discussion on linking poems based on rhyme scheme, and calculation of total new pages from this.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Finish dynamic stats page, calculating items added since last release.
2.25 hours: MyNDIR: Rebuilding the DOMs of HTML output pages to enable PS's style revisions; integrating SASS into the build process.

Total: 7.00 hours

Wednesday 2020-06-17

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Rebuild PDFs and post on GDrive.
1.50 hours: MyNDIR: Implement remaining DOM changes to server PS's style/design; tweaks for fallout; add detailed readme including instructions for working on the site; tweaked schema/ODD documentation.
1.50 hours: DVPP: First shot at implementing individual pages for each unique initial-stanza rhyme-scheme, with links to all poems which have it.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Working on schema complexities for reconstructed forms; Schematron and quickfix functions are problematic.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Fixes for validation problems for elements inside egXMLs.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Follow-up research on sonnet encoding using XPath; addition of a site page linking to all the rhyme-scheme pages.
1.25 hours: MoEML: Training session with LS, working on MoEML Schematron.
1.25 hours: MyNDIR: Added date range filter to search page; fixed fallout from staticSearch changes. More to do here.

Total: 8.75 hours

Thursday 2020-06-18

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
2.50 hours: MoEML: Fix stats table cell count bug; start programmer documentation; start re-organizing repo more logically.
1.00 hours: DVPP: More research on sonnet encoding variability through XQuery; drafting and testing of a transformation to remediate missing @rhyme attributes.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Second build-breaker diagnosis and fix.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Project meeting, updates to documentation.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Debug and fix citation reference bug in PDF generation.
0.75 hours: DVPP: Run remediation transform on first five periodicals, and validate/check results.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Fixing another build break so we can have a green build overnight.

Total: 7.50 hours

Friday 2020-06-19

0.75 hours: Update Jenkins servers; track down build problem with TEI Guidelines link checker, reconfigure and re-run; cleaning out old build products.
2.25 hours: ColDesp: Fix for duplicate name bug in author list; improvement for sorting search filter; add cloned search and clear buttons to bottom of form with JS; use svn version number to ensure unique filenames for staticSearch; enable CSS validation on document subsets.
1.00 hours: MyNDIR: Rearrange menu, tweak footer, change encoding of lists, and other tweaks per request from PAB.
0.25 hours: LEMDO: Fix custom editor variables so auto-generated ids can be taken from anchors and used on other elements if required.
0.50 hours: DVPP: More XPath-based investigation of potential rhyme-scheme encoding inconsistencies, and resulting discussion.
0.75 hours: Scancan: Tweaks to clean up site build; some edits per HT. Trying to figure out how to get a three-em dash to work on Macs.
1.50 hours: MyNDIR: Implement PS's restructure of the search page DOM to enable better styling.

Total: 7.00 hours

Isolation log week 13:
Work done from home 2020-06-08 to 2020-06-12.

Week 13 total hours: 38.5

G & T hours: +3.5

Monday 2020-06-08

2.00 hours (weekend): Endings: Attend DHSI session for presentation of video paper; prepare and distribute tweets as programmed.
0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: Moses: Fix missing headwords in PDF dictionary. Implement new content model for seg; add rendering for emph and hi[@xml:lang].
0.75 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Implement new setting allowing wildcard searches; begin work on query parsing for wildcard searches.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Project meeting; implementing flex-display of various image+caption sets.
5.00 hours: MoEML: Devise encoding patterns for figures/graphics in born-digital documents; implement in schema; write XSLT handling for new patterns; remediate all existing document instances; add Schematron rules; validate and clean up fallout; rewrite documentation; tweak egXML rendering.

Total: 10.00 hours

Tuesday 2020-06-09

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Test and confirm overnight build success; close Asana ticket; begin addressing annoying display issue with picAndBlock.
1.50 hours: HCMC Blue Jeans meeting.
0.25 hours: ColDesp: Debugging missing names, and trying one fix.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Build word table from reconstructed forms, and link it to/from forms themselves.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Discussions with publisher re document style and layout.

Total: 5.00 hours

Wednesday 2020-06-10

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: MoEML: Fix flex display of pic+block structures; fix popup box width on mobile.
0.25 hours: Wendat: Follow up on previous questions to ML; propose auto-tagging of morphemes in reconstructed forms harvested from dissertation.
1.00 hours: ColDesp: Discussion and decision on release date and features for next edition; check last night's bugfix worked, and pass on list of similar cases to GL for fix; discussion of format for map and schedule citation.
1.75 hours: MoEML: Revising documentation and info pages to remove mentions of eXist db and the CodeSharing service (retired as of version 6.4), and to add documentation on staticSearch; planning for an automated "what's new" component of the stats page.
2.50 hours: Scancan: First batch of final proofing corrections for volume 27.
1.50 hours: MoEML: Training session with LS, working on Ant, the gazetteer build, and XSLT.

Total: 8.00 hours hours

Thursday 2020-06-11

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: TEI: With EBB, analyzing/labelling older Stylesheets issues on GitHub (implementing of new labelling for triage).
2.50 hours: LEMDO: PDF tweaks per publisher, including roman numeral page numbering for front matter. Project meeting.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Bug fix for long s characters not appearing in diplomatic view for Stow 1598 texts.
0.50 hours: Keats: Build and publish new version per KB.
1.50 hours: Scancan: Last batch of editor's proofing changes completed; new version built and published to the site.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Bugfix for reconstructed forms; project meeting (Blue Jeans); add morpheme tagging to reconstructed forms; write code to build table of distinct morphemes.

Total: 8.25 hours

Friday 2020-06-12

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: With SB, diagnose and report on build break for TEI Stylesheets, and once again address circular dependency issue.
1.00 hours: LEMDO: Set up new "iml" repo with isetools validator to aid editors still wrestling with IML. Write and test ant build file which Jenkins will run once there is content.
1.00 hours: Scancan: More proofing tweaks for vol 27. Work on a comprehensive plan to handle not-quite-authors-not-quite-acknowledgements species of pseudo-contributor.
2.00 hours: LEMDO: Write diagnostics for PDF volumes to run as part of building a PDF; send first results out to RAs. Help TEH with xsl:for-each-group issue.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Fixing some diagnostics; adding Schematron and debugging it; discussing plan for on-the-fly statistics with TEH.
1.00 hours: Scancan: Set up phone for desktop debugging of mobile issue; discover the problem; no fix yet.

Total: 7.25 hours

Isolation log week 12:
Work done from home 2020-006-01 to 2020-06-05.

Week 12 total hours: 37.75

G & T hours: 2.75

Monday 2020-06-01

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.50 hours: LEMDO: Tweak punctuation handling for quoted glosses; request decisions on rendering for stage directions embedded in prose speeches.
1.50 hours: Moses: Working on preprocessor that removes persNames and references to/from them.
1.00 hours: MoEML: Project meeting.
0.25 hours: DVPP: Timesheet gathering and submission.
0.25 hours: MoEML: Fix for broken build due to minor error in LS's learning-by-doing Schematron and XSLT changes.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Some ad-hoc diagnostics focusing on specific rhyme and sonic device encoding issues; discussion of same; fixes and summary.
1.00 hours: AdaptiveDB: Diagnose and fix problems resulting from upgrade to new MySQL on Loquat; test fixes.
1.00 hours: DVPP: Debugging problem with drop-cap CSS (not figured out yet); discussions on notated music.
0.75 hours: Moses: discussions about sort order in Eng-Nx glossary, and implementing/testing decisions; more discussions on purging of persName entries, refs and links.

Total: 7.50 hours

Tuesday 2020-06-02

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.75 hours: TEI: Stylesheets ticket triaging/labelling with SB, PS and EBB.
1.75 hours: HCMC Zoom staff meeting.
1.00 hours: Moses: Fix bug in persName-stripping code, and move on to the next challenge.
0.50 hours: MoEML: Discussion of square brackets in quotes, and implementation of decision to abandon diagnostic that's doing nothing useful.
0.25 hours: Housekeeping: backups, emails, etc.
2.00 hours: Moses: Finish pre-processing step that removes persNames and associated information, reformatting prose around missing bits. Rewrite build code to remove work now done in preprocessing. Add more info/diagnostic output to build process. Discussion with SK around how all this works and what it reveals.

Total: 7.50 hours

Wednesday 2020-06-03

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
0.75 hours: Project Endings: Prep / drafting premeditated tweets for Saturday's presentation. Follow-up emails with JT.
1.25 hours: ColDesp: Changes to search engine filters suggested by GL; debugging issue with diagnostics.
2.00 hours: Scancan: Create SVG cover component templates, and write instructions for creating a fresh cover. Rework vol 27 cover to test out instructions.
0.50 hours: DVPP: Figure out encoding approach to handle drop-cap combined with hanging indent, and report to the team.
1.00 hours: MyNDIR: Change rendering of biblio entries; debug and fix an issue with sequencing of biblio entries and rendering of repeated author with 3-em dash.
1.25 hours: MoEML: Training session for LS, introducing Ant and reviewing last week's work.
0.50 hours: LOI: Investigating Japanese tokenizers (Sudachi, mecab, and others) to prepare for meeting with JT on Friday.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: PDF build: fixed bug which reversed numbers in localCit pointers, made foreign elements italic, suppressed the lexical notes, and rebuilt and uploaded the three PDFs.
0.50 hours: Moses: Email check-in with SK about remaining tasks to be completed and status of current work.

Total: 8.75 hours

Thursday 2020-06-04

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.50 hours: DVPP/Maint: Migration of DBs to new MySQL host: updates to PHP, testing, backups, rewriting of ant management code.
1.00 hours: Moses: Adding missing subscript 1 and 2 characters to four fonts required for the PDF generation.
1.50 hours: LEMDO: Project meetings.
2.75 hours: Wendat: Harvesting, tagging and rendering 189 reconstructed form tables from ML's dissertation; project meeting.

Total: 7.00 hours

Friday 2020-06-05

0.25 hours: Update Jenkins servers.
1.00 hours: TEI: With SB, work on Stylesheets issue 201.
0.75 hours: LEMDO: Checking current PDFs, raising issue of bibl references, fixing quote formatting issue.
1.50 hours: Wendat: Encoded another set of reconstructed forms; now up to 345 out of 570.
1.50 hours: Moses: New content model for def element, and fixes to errors found by it; tried and backed out of new content model for seg, but fixed many errors it found; waiting for ECZH and SK to answer queries on other issues arising.
2.00 hours: Endings/staticSearch: Switching attribute and class name; planning and laying out the methods for pluggable tokenizing and stemming; Updates/fixes for tomorrow's presentation; discussion of wildcard search plan and requirements; cross-merging of various branches of the repo.

Total: 7.00 hours