Academic

Static player page with 3 timelines

Posted by on 09 Apr 2009 in Activity log

Took the player page and modified it to static HTML (rather than original PHP). Took me a while to figure out that the document.movie does not exist error was being thrown because an object element had bad attribute values, and it was nothing to do with the movie variable. Greg spotted that.

Once that was working, it was fairly straight forward to modify the javascript array and the javascript code (showEvents function in movie.js) that updates the UI to accommodate a third thread. Eventually that function will have to created on the fly based on the XML in the data file, but for purposes of demonstration we can use a hard-coded mockup.

Next feature to include will be min/max type controls for each thread in the GUI (more sophisticated version would also allow repositioning, but that can wait).

TRUTH conference

Posted by on 09 Apr 2009 in Activity log

Participated in a panel in the afternoon on collaboration in Digital Humanities at UVic. Prior to that listened to three presentations, including Steve Thorn.

set up instance of Lansdowne Lectures on my Mac

Posted by on 09 Apr 2009 in Activity log

Greg and I each set up an instance of the Lansdowne Lectures site on our machines. We then started debugging a couple of known problems (e.g. failure to unescape html entities in javascript strings). The problem with including an apostrophe in the search string continues to cause an exception to be thrown.

Blogging away from home today

Posted by on 18 Mar 2009 in Activity log

Today is the Day of Digital Humanities, in which I've been participating, so I've been blogging my day at my Day of DH blog instead of here. Later I'll have to nip over there and steal the bits that amount to useful documentation to move them back over here again. For now, I'm just linking, and adding the minutes.

Discussion with visiting lecturer

Posted by on 12 Mar 2009 in Activity log

Logging time spent on a fruitful discussion with OD, visiting from Concordia.

Preparation for a book chapter

Posted by on 06 Mar 2009 in Activity log

Long Skype conversation and work on subsequent notes for a book chapter I'm writing with LR, relating to teiJournal.

DH2009 session now a paper

Posted by on 25 Feb 2009 in Activity log

Got an email from Claire Warwick saying that our proposal could be presented as a paper rather than a poster (as we'd first suggested). We agreed to do it as a paper and got confirmation from CW on that.

plan DH2009 poster with Greg

Posted by on 18 Feb 2009 in Activity log

Our proposal to DH2009 was accepted as a poster. We'll try to add support for a Flash player and the video element in time for that presentation. That way we can not only show and compare the two implementations (Lansdowne and FrancoToile), but we can demonstrate the three output formats and talk about pros and cons of each.

Updated old presentation materials from 2003

Posted by on 18 Feb 2009 in Activity log

Our 2003 presentations for IALLT and WorldCALL had some cool SVG stuff in them, which at the time was only working in special builds of Mozilla. Now, many browsers (Firefox, Safari, Webkit, Midori, and Opera) have support for SVG, but some of the code has broken in the interim as user agent implementations shook down, so I fixed bugs, added one new feature (redraw the tree optimally in the browser window when it's resized), and updated links, references and explanations. These materials are now working, and even more interesting because the SVG functionality is now broadly available.

Responding to AT's presentation

Posted by on 16 Feb 2009 in Activity log

All three of us spent half an hour discussing AT's project and presentation, and preparing some feedback looking forward to the March 15 presentation, as requested.