Monument 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-11
to : Martin Holmes
Minutes: 1040
On Tuesday, got AB set up working on proofing place bios, and set up a bibliography file to simplify references. I implemented all the remaining Names Committee updates that were approved and ready to go, and published both versions of the site. Then I started working in earnest on the idea of using character-set boundaries for tokenizing in staticSearch, and by the end of the day I had a working regular expression approach in XSLT and JavaScript, along with the beginnings of a stopword list.
On Wednesday, created a special branch to experiment with this approach,
ja-experiment, and by the end of the day I had what
looks like a basically-working implementation. There are some complications,
of course; it’s not clear that we’ll be able to handle phrasal search with
this approach, or if we can, it’ll need more rather hacky intervention.
Also did some triage on the remaining missing content, and corresponded
with AN about zenkaku versus hankaku in the Japanese side of the site.
Finally, worked on adding links to the translated text on one of the
longer pages, so we can get a better sense of what the Japanese text
will look like when it’s fully encoded. Also altered the structure of
that page, per PS.
On Thursday, got the rest of the basics working for the Japanese search. Whether it’s functional enough for real-life use is still not quite clear, but given a new earlier deadline, we’ll have to go with it.
On Friday, worked with AB to the first few of the place bios, added a Schematron QuickFix to automatically tag the reference list, along with a code template for quotes, and wrote documentation for MM to get started with encoding them next week. It looks like the encoding part will be very rapid compared with the proofing and the construction of the bibliography. Also worked with PS on a number of changes to support the design, and discussed map functionality with PS and GN.