AustLit

Weekly Report - Week 47, 5 April 2002

What I've done

Only was at work for 2 days this week...
Implemented new attribute, stylesheet changes and "relay" program to access the AustLit full texts stored as part of the Sydney Uni SETIS program. The basic facility is now working, with a few outstanding issues: authentication on the ADFA proxy is currently required, which the program does with a hardcoded userid/password (very undesirable, but hopefully will be fixed in cooperation with AFDA IT Services next week); links to PDF files need to be changed (Creagh Cole and I).
Investigation of a few subscriber access problems which seem to be related to EZProxy configuration/use at subscriber sites.
Another new agent attribute "Departed Australia" - a date.
Change agent display so that "Reviews of works" is now replaced by "Criticism/Reviews". This link shows all works "about" all works of an agent, whether "reviews" or "subject-works".
A few minor changes to stylesheets and other formatting following maintainer and user feedback (Show BRN to subscribers;suppress book icon when expression-form is painting; stats for Kerry;changed periodical issues to newspaper issues where the work was an "issue of" a newspaper;new canned "F2" work level notes)

The system was stable. The power will be turned off at the ADFA library for a few hours sometime in April. The current best guess time is still between 11am and 1pm on Saturday 13th April. When I'm given a definate time, I'll alert users (maintainers and subscribers) to the extent of AustLit unavailability.

Next Week

Continue design/implementation of relationship scopes. The first use for this facility will be year-scoping of award-as-subject relationships.
Continue work on the functions linking to the SETIS full text.

Next few weeks

Kent Fitch
k.fitch@adfa.edu.au
5 April 2002