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Moderator(s): Annamarie Klose
Notetaker: Anna Goslen
Attendees:
Juliet Hardesty (Indiana University)
Annamarie Klose (Ohio State University)
Rachel Howard (University of Louisville)
Anna Goslen (UNC Chapel Hill)
Christine Peterson (Amigos Library Services)
Heather Greer Klein (Samvera)
Agenda:
Roadmaps Alignment Group Update - Julie Hardesty
Working on community technology report for Samvera. Aiming for the end of June.
Thumbnails in Hyku/Hyrax. Creating an issue to submit for improvement.
Discussion from last time: Metadata Call 2024-05-28
Check if Nurax has any thumbnail options? Standard option is, if there are multiple images for a work, you can select which image you’d like for thumbnail. But can’t upload separate, custom thumbnail
Just thumbnails for works? Or also collections?
Use cases:
Metadata only records with custom thumbnails: Provide access (via URL) to a publisher copy of a book or article that the library is barred from adding to their IR. The publisher may have restrictive rights, and/or the faculty member might be uncomfortable providing anything but the published version.
Metadata only records with custom thumbnails: Some faculty keep their websites and prefer a single access point from there. I don't know if this is a significant number at this point, though. It used to be more prevalent than it probably is now.
Rights issues: Provide a custom logo, e.g. lock symbol, for restricted content as a reminder that works require authentication for access. Currently, public records with all restricted files appear defective. This is confusing for users.
Rights issues: Rather than full image in IIIF Viewer. Only a thumbnail can be shared due to rights issues.
Sensitivity issues - block specific content.
Julie: this could be an iterative process. Start off with something like - work with no image, metadata only, or restricted content, and would like to be able to set a custom thumbnail. Could then revisit and iterate on functionality, to add ability to do things like have a lock thumbnail in certain scenarios. New work/feature requests might take awhile to get to.
Julie: things like collection thumbnails, banners stored separately in db from repo-managed content files. These might be treated similarly to the way collection banners, etc. are handled.
For our reference and help answering future questions about what we’re thinking re: this feature
How this is done in CONTENTdm: https://help.oclc.org/Metadata_Services/CONTENTdm/Project_Client/Add_items_and_objects/Generate_thumbnails
How this is done in DSpace: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58035491/how-to-manually-upload-thumbnails-to-dspace
Heather: I bet other institutions would be interested in this as well. We could shop the idea around with others and perhaps get some focus on it re: development.
Adding custom thumbnails to Works - https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/6848
Allinson Flex Development Update
Christine: SoftServ upgrading Hyrax and will be updating Hyku as well. Need to work on the UI that lets you upload a YAML file and make changes. Will need to go through Hyrax approval process. Would this get included in Core Hyrax or be a gem? Julie: would be nice if it ended up on nurax and we could review and test.
Open Discussion - None
Next Meeting: July 23rd, 2-3 Eastern