Ali

Hi Ali,

Here's where we're at so far....

Questions

Would it be worthwhile to link all the unusual terms (like "ides", "nones", "Candlemas", etc.) to the glossary or would that just clutter things up too much? Click to reply.

March 14, 2007

• Still chugging along on heptarchy pages.
• Debating re-sending requests for permission to use A-S language text and maps from EBK.
• Gearing up for end-of-term panic.

March 8, 2007

• Finished Kent, beginning Sussex.
• Finished list of Popes.
• Rebuild frameworks for all century pages (e.g. 5th Century)

March 6, 2007

• Begin page for Kent, including timeline and kings; need to create list of archbishops.
• Updated references page from RefWorks.

March 1, 2007

• Begin framework for Heptarchy, Danelaw, and other political divisions.
• Permission received from Brittania.com to use maps and images from their site.
• Scattered random events added to various years.

February 27, 2007

• Easter entries completed.
• Completed page for Isle of Wight, and all text linkages.
• Begin pages for Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (Essex, Mercia, Northumbria, etc.)

February 22, 2007

• Calendar entry finished.
• Build framework for Easter.
• Begin calculating Easter dates.

February 21, 2007

• Finished hunting down "ides", "nones", and various saints' days.
• Beginning entry of calendar items.
• Glossary growing at a satisfying rate.

February 16, 2007

• Finished hunting down references to "calends", next...."ides".
• Permission received to use a photo of the Leshan Buddha.

February 12, 2007

• Data entry from the A-SC completed!!
• Begin hunt for calendar dates pre-900.
• Begin glossary of unusual terms (see Main Page).

February 9, 2007

• 11th century half entered.

February 8, 2007

• 10th century data-entry finished.
• Begin data entry for 11th century.
• E-mailed Tony Jebson on Feb. 7 about using his Anglo-Saxon stuff on the site; no reply yet.

February 6, 2007

• Halfway through entering the 10th century.
• Google Maps extension successfully added and tested on some islands (see Main Page).
• Saxon Genealogies roughed in from the A-SC text, and turned into a .pdf document (ditto).
• Calendar skeleton roughed in (ditto ditto); dates being noted on paper from 900 onwards.

Planned

• Begin pages for Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
• Finish A-SC data entry by Feb. 16 (or earlier if possible).
• Retrace pre-900 entries for potential Calendar entries.
• Add collected Calendar entries.
• Add Anglo-Saxon link to all entries and create pages for original text (see 938 for example).
• Create "General" pages for Natural Events, Popes, Kings (subdivided Saxon and Viking), Battles, Treaties, etc.
• Begin individual pages for well-known people, i.e. King Alfred, Augustine, Edward the Confessor, etc.
• Begin dictionary of unusual terms, i.e. calends, ides, nones, etheling, etc.
• Create list of when Easter occurred each year.