Encoding errors in 1871 Leaves corrected

A helpful Archive visitor, Samuel Graber, pointed out that the electronic table of contents for this edition didn't have an entry for either "Lo! Victress on the Peaks!" or "World, Take Good Notice." In the transcription file (ppp.00270.xml) both had been mistakenly encoded as sections of the previous poem, "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors." I corrected the structure, added appropriate tagging, validated, and uploaded.

~ Brett

Copyright on splash page updated

I changed the copyright notice at the bottom of the splash page (from 1995-2008 to 1995-2009).

~ Brett

Links to reviews sub-indexes fixed

Links to the reviews sub-indexes by volume (in http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/index.html) were returning 404 errors. I compared the criticism sitemap on the server with my local copy and discovered that the section for handling the sub-indexes had been trimmed pretty drastically. I copied that section from my local sitemap file into the one from the server and re-uploaded. The links now work. The differences between the two sitemap files were much more extensive, but I decided not to simply restore the older file without knowing who made the changes and why.

~ Brett

Links in With Walt Whitman in Camden corrected

Liz pointed out that links to the WWWiC texts were making calls to the test server (libr). I made three changes to the traubel xslt stylesheets, substituting relative paths to local files on kosmos for the absolute references to files on libr. Specifically, the changed references are to the "figures" directory and the linkstyle.css stylesheet.

~ Brett

WWA People Page Update

On December 12, I made the following changes to the WWA People page:

 

Photos and bios were added for

Erica Fretwell

Beverley Rilett

Joshua Ware

 

(Janel Cayer will be added, as will Ted Genoways and Blake Bronson-Bartlett.)

 

These staff members were moved to the contributors section:

 

Zach Bajaber (web design and programming) 2004-2008

Wesley Raabe (developed a prototype web site and information architecture for the Civil War Washington project) 2007-2008

 

Changes were made to several bios and photos of existing WWA staff  who provided updates.

 

-Bev Rilett

 

 

"Beat! Beat! Drums!" image added 12/1

On December 1, I uploaded the full-page and cropped images of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" to the periodicals part of the site. Thanks to Sarah for scanning the pages of Harper's Weekly and Janel for merging the scans.

Images from the New York Aurora will be coming soon (following server switch).

~Liz

changes to Traubel biography

The Horace Trabuel biograpy at
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/tei/anc.00249.html
had a surprising number of typos in it. I have fixed the following:


1)In the last sentence of the first paragraph, I changed the word "our"
to "out."

2)In the fifth paragraph, a sentence said "Traubel was indefatigable in his support of Whitman's word." Changed to read: "Whitman's work."

3)In the second paragraph, Traubel is referred to as one of Whitman's "literary executers." Changed to "literary executors." (Traubel's work wasn't that deadly!)

4) In the last paragraph, the word Bon appeared as BOn in the first sentence. Fixed.

Ken