DVPP 2024-01-22 to 2024-01-26
to : Martin Holmes
Minutes: 410
On Monday and Tuesday, had a couple of discussions with AC by phone and on Teams in preparation for RAs starting encoding.
On Wednesday, started working on the feature request to ensure we always
show the display name for anyone from the personography or the prosopography
whatever might be contained in an <author> or <respStmt>
in the header. This proved remarkably complicated, since we don’t have a pre-processing
stage for the XML in DVPP. Initial commits broke the build, and and I was still trying to fix
it at the end of the day. Had a meeting with AC and BL on the issue of tagging for sexual
identity, and determined that we would start with a short taxonomy, then look at the
<state> and <trait> elements as an encoding method;
those will allow detailed content where necessary to explain the assignment in the case
of a specific person. BL has identified a suitable image for the anthology, and I’ll
process that tomorrow.
On Thursday, I did some debugging on the build break and committed a putative fix first thing.
The build succeeded, but the value for Metadata research and editing
was missing;
on investigation, it appears that although a link has always been generated
for this (the target is usually lp:projectTeam), it’s never
gone to the right place anyway, so I special-cased it and committed
a fix both for the new issue and the old. That partially succeeded, but revealed a bug in
the original code that was producing a superfluous <p> tag, which I think
I’ve now fixed.
I took a first shot at creating a card image for BL’s anthology. He seems happy with it, and I outlined the two approaches that can be taken to build a curated subcollection. Then I ran the import process for Argosy volumes 21-30, which was fairly smooth apart from the usual variations in column headings. I checked the diagnostics, and fixed some image file names on the server and bad image links in the XML.
On Friday, had some discussion over the summer issues of Argosy and how to date and encode them, and also backed up the latest changes to images on the server.