Rough notes from Wednesday's Developer Meeting sessions
Implementations, methods, tools
(Session of 2012-02-08 13:15-14:30
MMI
Working on deployment from 1.5-on
Have two servers
Someone else doing imports in different time zone
Data matches SPECTRUM for the most part
CollectionObject most difficult to extend, use 50%, added 20%
Are going to be adding 2 new procedures, 2-3 new authorities, haven't yet done any of that.
Creating a collections browser, ongoing. Hired MMI's museum website contractors. Mapping from wireframes.
How to use advanced search in services, would like implicit joins.
Patrick:
Use the app layer, aggregate services into a different model
Another database views
Another warehouse approach, ETL data out of services
5K records in collections browser
200K total records
our current CMS, have images on Windows share
a lot of Jesse's notes are on the deployer wiki, some are now outdated
useful stuff like "how do I make a different field show up on the search results"
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- How do we make it easier to take advantage of each others' notes / documentation
Currently using CollectiveAccess, kind of tailored to our needs
SMK
Painting sculpture 10.5K
Graphic art 240K
plaster casts in warehouse 2.5K
back 700 years
Kirsten Vittrup (PM), Kim Brasen (mapping, creating a shareable domain for fine arts) museum curators
In-house application just for the museum
Custom-made, expectations quite high for anything that replaces it, lots of custom fields
1200 fields to look at, not sure how many are active, not just internal, etc.
MSSQL, extra layer of abstraction, Globus, between app and DB, difficult to understand, closed source, external contractors
45K in now, 200K waiting, no plan now about adding those, mostly graphic works, some in books (book and each page are objects)
would be happy with 45K
making both domain and local extensions, easier to make just local, but decided to carry on with domain
basing on Getty standard, CDWA, for comprehensively describing works of art
challenge to find those matching collectionspace core, create all others
bookkeeping of extensions is quite heavy
how do we describe and document the work of these contributions
with each upgrade of collectionspace
Authorities:
Name
Citation (reuse)
Archive
Exhibition
Place (reuse)
Concept (reuse)
Added Physical Characteristics section to Cataloging
Haven't yet used Getty vocabs, etc.
Customizing we'd like
New structured date module
Automatic display text generation - suggestions based on drop-down, but overrideable via free text
- Multiple language
- Guide user behavior
Automatic start/end date generation based on more simple input; e.g. 20th century, generate earliest and last dates
Quarter, half, middle, end, decade, period, century, based on requests from staff at the museum, more or less copied from existing system
Boundary checking for dates
Requires:
- Extensions
- Date library for date arithmetic
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- Use case for replacing widget or customizing widget
Integrations we're waiting to do
AD
DAM
Exhibition management
Public web browsing
Export to Regin
Condition database
Literature references - downloads of references to items in the collection from the National Library, pulling them in automatically
ConservationSpace
Walker
Have a basic schema extension, consisting of simple fields
Import mapping from CDWA
Building a domain for performing arts
Using FM Pro now, "it's just like you think"
have a mapping to CDWA Lite done several years ago, covers artwork in collection decently
bigger hassles:
registration data
fields that aren't mapped nicely into CDWA Lite
Just launched a new Walker website, now shifting gears to this
Collections management
and new Getty grant for online scholarship initiative
make a living catalog, including performances
driving in a round-about way, the public version of this
meant to replace a print publication
not looking at a live connection via the API, some sort of warehousing, dumping, scraping
here are these moments that this artist intersected with the Walker
scholarly articles, references, not all in the CMS
Charlie Moad, using Nuxeo as a DAM, live-ish
possibly as a document management system as well
exciting possibilities, if there's any 'there there'
just a folder hierarchy now, EXIF data and whatever Adobe data is there
if have first class representations of each other
interested in using the application layer
UC Berkeley museums
Data mapping and migration
Create database views
Use Talend to create payloads
Import using curl
Building place, concept, citation authorities to contribute back
Button to fetch editable URL and navigate to DAM
Run batch process, data extraction, etc.
History of Art on hold
We do catalog individual works of arts, etc.
But media handling records are themselves our collection objects
Have to document sources
Hammering on citation authority esp. important to use, documenting sources
Concept authority as basis for styles, periods, materials, techniques, cultures, all of which describe a cultural object
Place authority important, describes places where things are
Standardized forms of artists' names
Wish to use forms of terms, singular, plural, in different languages, in vocabularies
With citation authority, go out to external databases, bring it in, export it in a variety of formats, must hold that information in sufficiently granular form
Botanical propagation, mapping design work
Propagation procedure that Botanical Garden is looking to add, designing wireframes
Involves repeating group with a repeating table within that group
Visually fitting onto very long, vertically scrolling pages, being able to visually grasp
Mapper widget for places, latitude and longitude, can quickly see on a map where objects are
Many objects, incorporate into search results page
Also for individual records
Be able to use the map to inform lat/long locations
Use a georeferencing system
Tools for mapping, use big mapping services out there
Web service, give it a genus or other taxonomic rank names, give back polygon extents of known ranges
with GIS query system, can find out about other things in that same range
In anthropology, could show extents of cultures, integrate with these
Biogeomancer, given a string, find a set of likely place names
One one hand, disambiguating all the "San Jose"s of the world
In another, language processing to propose lat/long when given text strings
Looking at integrations
In lifesci
GeneBank and others
Call out to Getty, store preferred term
go to web service, here is term id, go back, see if it's in the database
(didn't quite understand Jan's point - would be good to go back and ask)
As an option, go hit the Getty, see what the current thinking is around the term
Library of Congress has services like this, around subjects
Wikispecies, Wikipedia model for tracking taxa
In practice, awkward and sparse, but an example
Might be able to navigate to a page there
Exposing vocabularies that start out ad hoc in-house,
then become authoritative
Sometimes separate out AAT and in-house, then propose changes to Getty
Can semi-automate those changes
R1 universities with teams that support museums and research collections