Blacklight 5.0

Attendees:

• Moderator: Chris Beer

• Breck Witte - Columbia

• Gary Geisler - Stanford

• Justin Coyne - DCE

• Mike Tribone - PSU

• Andreas Borchsenius Westh - Royal Library of Copenhagen

• Chris Arwe - Hull

• Chris Colvard - Indiana

• Jack Reed - Stanford

• Jessie Keck - Stanford

• Vivian Chu - UCSD

• Sandra Castillo - University Duoc UC.

• Esme Cowles - UCSD

• Longshou Situ - UCSD

• Carolyn Cole - PSU

• Tom Cramer - Stanford

• David Trujillo - UCSD

• Anusha Ranganathan - Oxford

• Sheetal Chavan - UCSB

• Carrick Rogers - Stanford

Blacklight 4 vs. Blacklight 5 Comparison

• Most noticeable distinction is the update to Bootstrap 3

• Blacklight 4 was the Bootstrap 2 release

• Blacklight 5 will be a bootstrap 3 release

• Adding Schema.org Support

• There are some behind the scenes changes that shouldn't be of too much concern to those who haven't done a lot of monkey patching.

• Blacklight 5 is trying to fall back on more of the Bootstrap UI components.  As an example the facets are now pure Bootstrap collapsible panels instead of rolling our own.

Upgrading to Blacklight 5 (when it's out)

• Upgrade to latest Blacklight 4.x and fix all deprecation warning before upgrading to Blacklight 5.

• Here is a commit in Sufia that removed a lot of deprecation warnings in an app after upgrading to the latest 4.x line: https://github.com/psu-stewardship/sufia/commit/9f54aa85e6f83ecda6bd819a00b81f9f24c72321

Desired Features (by those in the room)

• ADA Compliance

• Support for spatial data

• -- Coming up with a metadata standard for place names will make creating a Blacklight extension much easier.

• Book Covers Plugin

• User Tagging (different flavors of tags)

• Continuos Scrolling Plugin

• Grid View (more views)

• Hierarchical Facets (or at least improve the current pivot facets UI)

• Facet Groups (admin vs. public)

• Configurable open facets.  Avalon has this and perhaps we can borrow some of what they have done.
  ( https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/blob/develop/app/controllers/catalog_controller.rb#L67 
  https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/blob/develop/app/helpers/blacklight/local_blacklight_helper.rb#L71-L80 )

Action Items

Add your Blacklight installation to the Examples page on the Blacklight Wiki ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/wiki/Examples )