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The Purpose
The Golem Herald is responsible for the publication-oriented tasks of the College of Heralds, which include:
- The West Kingdom Herald's Website
- The West Kingdom Awards List
- The West Kingdom Ceremony Book (Maintenance)
- The West Kingdom Herald's Handbook (Maintenance)
- Updates of the West Kingdom History Site for registered names, armory, badges and changes of blazons and/or names ...
Responsibilities
The West Kingdom Herald's Website
This is an official place for the Heralds to present policy, and assistance
to both heralds and non-heralds alike in matters involving the College of Heralds.
The West Kingdom Herald's Minutes are placed online, and once received from
the Matins Herald, should be placed online as soon as possible. All attempts
should be made to keep information on the site timely, and of use to people.
The West Kingdom Awards List (sometimes called the Order of Precedence)
The Awards list is currently a MySQL database, with a PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript/etc. front-end.
The code was written by the Golem Herald at the time, Hirsch von Henford, and is completely
data driven. The Golem Herald is responsible for updating this by adding new awards as needed,
adding new royalty, and of course, processing court reports in a timely fashion so that
awards are all available online.
The basic process is:
- When Court Heralds post awards lists for review and confirmation by the Royalty (which also sends these to The Page, and the Golem Herald), Golem should check the list for errors (spelling of names, etc.), and send those corrections to everyone on the email list ("reply all" should work). See Court Reporting Procedure for more details.
- Note that the Awards List website is the official location (by Kingdom law) of the Awards List, therefore Golem must attempt to stay on top of the court reports.
- Note that the Ceremonies for: Pillars of the West, Bards of Oertha, and others need to be updated whenever these awards/recognitions are granted because recipients are listed in the text of the ceremony.
The West Kingdom Ceremony Book
This should be updated as needed, when new ceremonies are created for new awards,
when ceremonies are modified (this should be done with the permission of the
Crown or the Coronets, not just because the Golem Herald thinks that they
ought to be modified for some reason), and modifications should be printed
to .PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file format, and uploaded to the Herald's Website.
Appropriate folk should be notified of any changes so that they can print these
out.
The Pillars of the West, Bards of Oertha and other ceremonies should be updated as soon as these awards/recognitions are granted (several ceremonies include lists of recipients).
Note that the Golem Herald is not specifically in charge of writing ceremonies – that falls under the purview of the Green Crown Herald for Kingdom Ceremonies, and the Principality Heralds for their respective Ceremonies.
The West Kingdom Herald's Handbook
Similar to the Ceremony Book, this should be modified when needed, but the
Vesper Principal Herald and/or the Baldric Pursuivant should be consulted for any changes ...
Unlike the Ceremony Book, the Heralds' Handbook is completely in HTML format.
The Golem Herald is not responsible for updating the content of the Handbook directly – that falls under the purview of the Senior Heraldic Staff of the College of Heralds in general, and the Baldric Pursuivant in specific. All changes should (as noted above) be approved by Vesper.
Updating the West Kingdom History site's Who's Who when names, armory, badges are registered, getting images up, setting the dates registered, updating changes to blazons, and more. This may be done by a deputy ...
Golem Herald Procedures -- this page describes in much more detail the exact steps of how Golem handles the various tasks described above.
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