Results of the July 2003 Technical Meeting in Berlin

Location and Date:

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 14-19 July 2003

Outcome:

• Development of Hermitage Collection data and presentation:
  • Began design of web pages (Madeleine)
  • MVN 20 ATF-formatted; corrections soon from Natasha
  • status of Selz transliterations to be clarified (Natasha)
  • Natasha to provide basic cat info for full collection
  • status of image processing to be clarified (Bob)
• Improvements to Access System
  • Thumbnails no longer aliased
  • maintenance/update workflow to be written by Madeleine
  • Revamp databases and database workflow according to Jena notes, etc.
    • joins now to be handled with dummy composed tablet record
    • constrain period options, make catalogue env and seal conventions match DTD, add writing period field, add artificial composite records, make info buttons work for all layouts
  • Revamp templates now that we can do multi-file searches
    • replace collection with owner, add more fields to main search and sign search
    • should search in line still be separate from main search page?
    • add in-line action to show transliterations available in imagelist templates
  • search capabilities, e.g. search for two different things in the same or different texts or lines
  • write intro and help pages for access system
  • how to show how many texts have images/transliterations?
• Backup/Mirror to Berlin from Los Angeles
  • database backup/mirroring
    • database folder added to RAID archives to be transferred
    • Madeleine to set up scripting in databases and on LA server for auto-copying
  • automatic mirroring to begin in September
  • backups will take place daily at midnight Pacific Time beginning 19.7