1. Introduction

Once birdwatching field notes are encoded in the form described in A system for encoding bird field notes, the next link in the tool chain is described herein: rendering these notes into a Web structure.

The noteweb script expects to be run from a directory containing all the notes files in this form:

Each year's worth of notes resides in subdirectory yyyy/, where yyyy is the four-digit year.
Each month's worth of notes resides in a single file at path yyyy/yyyy-mm.xml, where mm is the two-digit, zero-padded month number in the range 01-12.

Assuming all the input files are valid, the noteweb script builds these files, also in and under the current directory:

A set of HTML files, one for each input .xml file, but named yyyy/yyyy-mm.html.
field.html, a thumb-index page with links to the monthly pages. This organized as a table, with the years in rows and the months in columns.

noteweb: Rendering bird field notes for the Web

1. Introduction