Posts in 2021
  • Quarterly development schedule, February — June 2021

    Friday, March 12, 2021 in Quarter Schedules

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  • Feb 15 - 26, 2021

    Monday, March 01, 2021 in 2021

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    This iteration we continued to make progress on building out the new relational database for the Geniza project and importing existing data from spreadsheets. Database structure, admin interface, and data import for languages & scripts are …

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  • Feb 1 - 13, 2021

    Monday, February 15, 2021 in 2021

    This iteration we closed a significant number of issues for the Geniza project; the completed development work was all related to prototypes from the first phase (IIIF images with transcription, experimenting with eScriptorium, and two stories for a …

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  • Jan 11 - 22, 2021

    Monday, February 01, 2021 in 2021

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    Last iteration we made substantial progress on the cdhweb “exodus” from mezzanine to wagtail: features related to editing and “exodizing” content pages and uploaded images have been tested and accepted, and more work is …

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  • Dec 14, 2020 - Jan 8, 2021

    Monday, January 11, 2021 in 2021

    Due to the holidays and planned vacations, we decided to take a long iteration spanning from December 14th to the end of the first week in January. We spent the majority of the time on maintenance and addressing some technical debt. The CDH website …

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Posts in 2020
  • Nov 30 - Dec 12, 2020

    Monday, December 14, 2020 in 2020

    This iteration we paused active software development on the Geniza project, although design research and work on sitemap and continued, along with planning for the next phase. We shifted development efforts to an infrastructure migration for the CDH …

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  • Nov 16 - 27, 2020

    Monday, November 30, 2020 in 2020

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    This was our last scheduled iteration for working on Geniza prototyping, so we made a push to finish as much of that work as possible before we switch to other things. Work completed includes a report of name extracted from metadata descriptions, to …

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  • Nov 2 - 14, 2020

    Monday, November 16, 2020 in 2020

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    This iteration we made substantial progress on our Geniza search prototyping, most notably implementing the first two steps towards a prototype of the holistic search interface that Gissoo has been designing. We also made some updates and fixed some …

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  • 2020 so far

    Tuesday, November 10, 2020 in Annual Reports

    Our biggest sustained efforts in 2020 have been on mep-django, leading up to the Shakespeare and Company Project 1.0 release in May and Startwords, leading up to the October launch of issue 1. We also worked on PEMM in January to migrate and support …

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  • Oct 19 - 31, 2020

    Monday, November 02, 2020 in 2020

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    Very pleased to report that this past iteration we finally published Issue One of Startwords. The velocity charts below reflect the effort to get this out the door, including completion of design and implementation on an experimental piece and a …

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