Week 6 Log
Local folders for v3n2-v2n2 were mysteriously empty of content. Copied files back down to R: Realized updates on meta data contributor address was wrongly done as http needed to be changed to https, and www.blackbird-archive needed to be changed to blackbird archive. Corrected and republished v14 and v15 — will work forward on this through […]
Week 5 Log
Tuesday K published updates to previous.html Glitched updated page turned out to be from using .shtml instead of .htmlQuestion of .htm extensions in older issues came up. Answer: that’s what we did back in the day, so lave that url alone aside from making it relative. MK published updates to 16n1, 15n2, v15n1 (w/ this […]
Week 4 log
TuesdayI worked from home Monday evening and Tuesday to look at older issues (with no left include menu) to see how those updates would work. I changed links for in-previous for v9 ThursdayWhile K continued to work backward through the structure from v14 or so, I started publishing his changes and auditing the links ending […]
Week 3 Log
Remapped site definitions for 43 issues, as well as the root and index paths and exported them to the R: drive. K did changed code for in-previous back to about v14. Still need to be published. Confirmed I have to login on in order to for pagebuilder working adjacent to publish himself.
Week 2 Log
Tuesday Updated search/archive link in left menu to relative paths in v19n1, v19n2, v20n1, v20n2. Also updated paths for all these site definitions and exported. First meeting with KP, lead coder/pagebuilder to orient him on what has transpired since his previous work on the legacy journal. HasTech confirmed installation of Adobe Cloud Hibbs 341. Not […]
Week 1 Log
Tuesday was spent mostly in testing and reorientation Thursday, following the publication of the new journal, consisted of Friday
Announcing the Blackbird Founders Archive
The 43 legacy issues of the Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, in 21 volumes, was migrated by Virginia Commonwealth University to blackbird-archive.vcu.edu on 1/24/2024. This coincided with the publication of a new iteration of the journal staffed by a new editorial team at blackbird.vcu.edu. A LIFT grant from VCU’s College of […]