Uploading Cave & Karst Science - step-by-step instructions
This is still in draft
This document contains more detailed and specific notes than the general "catalogue
information" pages, which are also still in draft. This operation takes about four hours, once you
know what youre doing.
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Adding Data to a Catalogue C&KS instructions)
To update a catalogue with a new publication, it is not necessary to write any HTML web
pages. It is only necessary to upload the data to the correct locations, and the Content
Management System (CMS) will look after it. That does not mean that it is trivial – there
are still a number of detailed processes that have to be undertaken. The process is slightly
different for the CREG journal, because that uses an earlier version of the CMS. Here, the process
is described for Cave & Karst Science.
- Open an FTP application
- Download the print-version of C&KS from our web site, where it has been placed by
the CKS editor. The FTP location is /public_html/uploads/CaKS/. The content is also at
/bcra.org.uk/uploads/CaKS/ but that is a less
convenient download. Reminder to self: I download this to my local storage at (e.g.)
C:\_C\_cloud\britiag2\bcra\CKS_originals_to_sort\49-1\Print_PDFs after copying my template
to a new location.
- Download the web version of C&KS from our cloud server britiag2 where it has
been placed by the C&KS editor. The FTP location is (e.g.)
/dalesbook/CaKS/49(1)_WebPDFs/WebPDFs. Reminder to self: I download this to my local
storage at (e.g.) C:\_C\_cloud\britiag2\bcra\CKS_originals_to_sort\49-1\Webfiles
- Move the hires files to \Webfiles\hires
- Obtain a directory listing via the command prompt; copy it to the clipboard and then
edit it to create the rename.bat. For this you need a knowledge of how the page numbers and
.f flags are used to create the content files to the correct DOI specification. The rename
file will look similar to ...
rename Ebook_01_CaKS-49-1-FRONTCOVER.pdf cks145i.pdf
rename Ebook_02_CaKS-49-1-INNERFRONT.pdf cks145ii.f.pdf
rename Ebook_03_CaKS-49-1-CONTENTS.pdf cks145001.f.pdf
rename Ebook_04_CaKS-49-1-EDITORIAL.pdf cks145002.f.pdf
rename Ebook_05_CaKS-49-1-PAPER1.pdf cks145003.pdf
rename Ebook_06_CaKS-49-1-PAPER2.pdf cks145014.pdf
rename Ebook_07_CaKS-49-1-PAPER3.pdf cks145019.pdf
rename Ebook_08_CaKS-49-1-PAPER4.pdf cks145035.pdf
rename Ebook_09_CaKS-49-1-FORUM.pdf cks145045.f.pdf
rename Ebook_10_CaKS-49-1-INNERBACK.pdf cks145iii.f.pdf
rename Ebook_11_CaKS-49-1-BACKCOVER.pdf cks145iv.pdf
rename Ebook_12_CaKS-49-1-SUPPLEMENTARYppS1-S11.pdf cks145S1.pdf
rename Ebook_13_CaKS-49-1-SUPPLEMENTARYppS12-S19.pdf cks145S12.pdf
pause
- Close any open files and then run the batch file and check the output. (Not only is a
batch file faster and less prone to typos than editing the file names manually but, if you do get
it wrong, you can simlpy re-run it and there is less chance of getting in a total muddle).
- Merge the individual PDFs together to form a single file and name it cks###000.pdf
where ### is the sequence number for the issue.
- Reminder to self: On my local storage, move those PDFs to
C:\_C\_cloud\britiag2\bcra\PDF-web-mirror\bcra\public-html\pub\candks\_pdf
- Upload the files to BCRA's cloud storage, as
follows...
- From C:\_C\_cloud\britiag2\bcra\CKS_originals_to_sort\49-1\ to
britiag2, /bcra/CKS_originals_to_sort
- From
C:\_C\_cloud\britiag2\bcra\PDF-web-mirror\bcra\public-html\pub\candks\_pdf to
britiag2, /bcra/PDF-web-mirror/bcra/public-html/pub/candks/_pdf
- Edit the contents file, supplied by the editor, into the required format. The list of
operations, which is not exhausive, includes
-
- Add the %P, %T, %A, %X, %K, %8, %9 and %_ tags
- Remove "and" from lists of authors
- Check for italics and add HTML. This can be done, in Word, by doing a wildcard search
for (<?@>)?> with Format: font: Italic and replacing the text with
<i>\1</i> and Highlight. Then do a manual inspection of the highlighted text,
editing it where needed (e.g. replace <<i> </i> with a space.
- Replace curly apostrophes with plain, whilst Autoformat-as-you-type is switched
off
- Replace quotation marks with &
- Look for subscripts and superscripts and replace with their HTML renditions. In
particular, replace CO2 with match case CO<span
class=sub>2</span>
- Look for symbols like ± and use the HTML entity ±.
- Many will need checking at, e.g.
dionysia.org/html/entities/symbols.html.
One for issue 49(1): for ≤ use ≤
- Look for accents in names. Two that commonly cause a problem are
a) the caron, which is like an upsidedown circumflex. The HTML code ̌
comes after the char that it combines with.
b) the breve, which is like a U. the HTML code ̆ comes after the char
that it combines with.
- Take an existing data file on the local machine, like
C:\_F\home\bcra\public_html\pub\candks\data\j144.html, edit it in a plain text editor
to produce the new data file, and paste in the results of the above edits.
- Update the header section of the data file, including un-commenting the sandbox flag
%S.
- Update the Front Cover, Notes for Contributors, Editorial and Contents references.
- Update the Forum Items, Research Fund and Grants, Back cover photos references
- Add and references to supplements. Use a previous data file as a guide.
- Attend to the following...this section to be further
edited
- layman and supplement references
- free issue items
- note that %Z values are 'openAccess' and 'summary'
- Process the front and rear covers ...
- Make TIFs of front and rear covers
- Make a copy of the front cover, as width 1000 and c10. Name it, e.g.
j144_w1000-h1414-c10.jpg
- Reduce that to width 400 and sharpen it (reminder to self 3333 perhaps), as
e.g. cks145i_w400-ush3333-c5.jpg - note the prefix !
- Reduce that to width 200 and sharpen it (reminder to self 3333 perhaps), and
compress as c20, to j144.jpg
- Create copies of both covers of height 630 and paste them into a template for
j144_facebook.jpg
- Upload the processed files to web server destinations as
follows
- /public_html/pub/candks/data
- /public_html/pub/candks/covers
- /public_html/pub/candks/_pdf
- Process and upload the following files
- Update the server file /manifest2020/periodicals_settings.php
- Update the server file /public_html/pub/schedules.html
- Update the server file /public_html//pub/pricelist.html if necessary
- For catalogues other than CREGJ, CKS and REVIEW, update the 'latest' setting in
/public_html/pub/pub/covers
- For catalogues other than CREGJ, CKS and REVIEW, update the info in
/public_html/bookshop/__publication_dates
- For CKS catalogue only, update the file at
http://caves.org.uk/payments/bca/forms/M1a.js
- Check the live pages...
- Do a final check and comment-out the sandbox tag
- Test the Facebook scrape by posting a message quoting the URL bcra.org.uk/cks,
whereupon Facebook should grab the image that you prepared and uploaded above.
- Publicity: Facebook scrape, Notices List, News Forum, UKcaving.com
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