Depts

With Martin and Greg's assistance:
rewrote some of Mike's calls which relied on id($id) method to use more conventional xquery.

When I tried to test these in the jnlp client, we eventually realized that the client was incompatible with the version of eXist running the MofL db. Got that going by grabbing the exist from the server and editing the shell script to call on it from my mac.

Eventually got xquery which seems to return sensible data back, but subsequent call to xslt passing in that data fails.

Also, as a matter of interest I was unable to return nodelist of attribute nodes as Mike had done, but instead returned entire article and then extracted id attribute node and its data from that.

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...spent helping Stew and Greg figure out problems with the London Maps project (main issue was a mismatched eXist client which couldn't talk to the db properly, so queries couldn't execute).

History dept sent me some images for including in top-left corner of their site on various pages.
Confirmed with Clifton the details on the procedure for dealing with the eye-candy images for the site. All images had to be sized and placed on coloured bg to blend with rest of banner. The code in the page for images to be included in collection of rotating images are treated one way; the code in pages for images which are limited to only one person's page is treated differently. The JS file has to be modified when images are added to the pool being rotated.
Eventually each faculty member will have their own fixed image. Until then, Clifton has copied the banner_images folder from the root into the faculty directory so that for those faculty without a fixed image, they can use the rotating images. The js which does that assumes a certain path to the images, which in the case of the faculty pages is wrong. When all the faculty members have their own images, we can delete the banner_images folder from the faculty folder.
Clifton processed the images from their raw data files and I uploaded them and made changes to code.

After encoding all the files (original task) I discover that the current version of Quicktime in the labs cannot play back the encoded video. This was unexpected as the same version on the Mac is capable of playback. I'll need to re-encode the files.

I've met with Marie Roulleau, and will meet with Françoise Keating tomorrow, regarding the preparation of audio materials for use in their final exams this semester. The process requires digitising of teaching materials and creating a single digital file for the instructor to send out to students.

Melanie reported that Text Search capability in London map failing. She last tried it late in September and it was working.

I investigated, involving David and Greg at various points.

A search.php file running on Cortland against the eXist db on tapor works.
The identical file running on Tapor against the same db fails. Problem appears to be related to this bug in FrancoToile. On the FrancoToile site, the search.php fails in a similar way. An identical page running on the Lansdowne Lecture site against a different instance of the db (containing identical data files for testing) works.

Before getting to the id($id) call, there are other failures. David thinks problem must be with what's coming back in the array of ids. That's what I'll investigate next.

Talked with Paul about problems history dept is having getting access to their timetable db, which we thought at that point was solved (see earlier post)

Turns out that I also needed to add a new entry into the htpasswd file in their department account on web.uvicc.ca. Got that done and now they have access as they are accustomed.

Talked to Jessica, but Paul not available. I'll update him when he reappears.

The Dean may want to update the Humanities site. Preparing the proposal entails:
- familiarize myself with current site
- familiarize myself with DW/Contribute model
- familiarize myself with UVic templates
- get specifics from Dean at meeting on Monday Dec 4
Task will be completed when either proposal is done or I've decided that needed work is so minor that a proposal is not warranted.

Nov. 23, 24 and 27.
I digitised several video clips Dr. Niang requires for an upcoming exam.
Tasks:

• Consult with Dr. Niang - get in and out points for clips
• Capture from VHS and DVD
• Consult follow-up
• Render clips

Urgent request from Dr Sager to provide access to his hist 130 course readings, which became inaccessible when new website posted.

Found files, put them into subfolder of files folder
Created tree based on old URL and put redirect file in at old index location.
Recreated .htaccess and .passwd files to restrict access to his specs