Project Update 03/07

[rmf96]

We are finally up and running! This week, there were a lot of important goals that were met.

Here's what they were:

• Renamed all files to appropriate names with no spaces
• Reorganized files to clean up our repo documents
• Got a place holder site up with our names, thesis, a solid coding meme, and some HTML/CSS
• Determined which meme templates we will keep, and which meme templates we will get rid of
  • Made sure that these still convey a variety of meme structures, not just top/bottom text memes
• Decided on clear, solid project member roles and how they will interact with each other
  • I (Rebekah) am project owner, while Kasey is the Scrum Master

Additionally, we accomplished a few things at our meeting as well:

• Discussed a general lay out for our website
• Created a standard process as to how we will be tagging our memes and did one together as a template (you are able to view this in our project repo if you are curious)
• Created a simple Relax NG schema to start ourselves off with
• Practiced / became comfortable with some more actions on the command line
• Discussed and decided on our midterm goals
• Scrum Master gave individual tasks and deadlines

What are our midterm goals, you ask?

• Transcribe all memes
• Tag all memes
• Create and associate schemas
• Create drawn site map (for organizational purposes)
• Create site skeleton to be ready for information input for when we start learning how to pull data from our XML documents
  • Make sure there is a functioning Drop Down menu!

We are very happy to finally be comfortable with exactly what our research question is and how we will be approaching the data and code. Very excited to hit the ground running!

[khuber116]

It looks like your team has a really solid midterm plan that's not entirely dissimilar to my group. We are also aiming to have our entire corpus marked up and associated with our schema. It seems like you've set some pretty attainable tasks and you've divided up the work well. I'm glad things are going so well for you guys.

[MLuckman]

You've made some seriously solid progress on the markup, but it doesn't entirely seem to correspond with the schema (I don't see a frag element in the schema for example). Also in Brian-XML-1 there is a mistake in transcription, you put "words" instead of "works." Good progress though!

[MJB288]

You have some solid goals for your midterm, and the fact that you are confident about hitting them speaks volumes. I don't imagine you would, but do you have any plans to create additional schemas, particularly with schematron? I don't think you'll need it, but good luck on reaching your midterm goals.

[BenBavar]

My team has created one basic, generic schema to which we are adding as we make progress on our markup and come up with different tags to include. But before reading your update, it did not occur to me that it could be a good idea for us to make multiple schemas. We had been worrying that we would not be able to make one schema that was appropriate for all of our XML files, which due to our different interests are going to have different tags. If we can just have different schemas, though, that will not be an issue. And I see no reason why, in the end, our markup files all have to abide by a shared schema.