AustLit

What I've done

• There was no weekly report produced for Week 43 as I've had nearly 4 days off in the last fortnight and not achieved a great deal!

• The database was changed to support the scope relationships. Unfortunately, just creating a new index on the topicRelationships table threw the query optimizer into a tiz, and the system ran very slowly for about 40 minutes whilst the old index being replaced was dropped and statistics were computed for the new index.

• Ongoing discussions about public access. Some minor changes have been made, but the full implementation will be completed next week.

• Added a function show current-year works added in the last fortnight. The count of all new works is now shown on the home page with a link to a "recent additions" page which lists works by date in two columns depending on work type.

• I've prepared two papers about the AustLit Technical development to be submitted for consideration to the AusWeb02 conference:
  • Schema Driven User Interface Generation - Building Advanced Web-based Interfaces using presentation schema, XML, the DOM and background HTTP connections
  • Taking RDF and Topic Maps seriously - what happens when you drink the Kool Aid

• Misc and many minor changes to stylesheets and other formatting following maintainer and user feedback (Mass change to books published by "Mills and Boon" to add form='novel' and genre='romance' if no existing form or genre; various agent stats for Kerry; several changes to tagged formatting suggested by John East, UQ; investigation of client-access problems involving IP addresses; fixed problem with user statistics which was causing an access problem for the UC; new stylesheet to show customer list in a convenient format for Kerry/Annette; F-K agents with creative works list for Kerry; render "Visitor" status even if agent has no nationalities; discussion about moving Heritage topics to a hierarchy; add new form: "painting"; change stylesheets to not show book icon next to paintings;)

• The system was stable (the less I'm here, the more stable it is...)

Next Week

• Continue design/implementation of relationship scopes. The first use for this facility will be year-scoping of award-as-subject relationships.

• Finalise "public view" processing.

• Move awards to be event-based rather than work-based.

• Multiple creation events for a work as a mechanism for allowing date ranges to be associated with agents responsible for works, eg editors of a periodical.

• Refining NBD Holdings searches.

• Review all subset definitions for efficacy.

• Import/export in MARC and DC formats.

• SDI facility.

• Combining searches

• System Documentation