Mission: Maintain an exhibits platform for Cornell Libraries that enables librarians, curators, and others who are responsible for digital collections to create attractive, feature-rich websites that highlight these collections. 

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Upcoming Meetings

  • TBD

Completed Meetings

Spotlight Community Call
(generally 2nd Friday of each month)


CUL Project Members

Technical Staff
  • Sarah Chintomby (developer)
  • Christina Cortland (lead developer)
  • Greg Delisle (SysOps)
Exhibit Management Group

This group takes the primary responsibility for setting policies for Exhibits, including who can create exhibits, how long content will be available, identifying legal responsibilities for attaining copyright permissions and FERPA releases, etc.  They will also work with the Technical Lead to define and prioritize potential feature upgrades to the Exhibits system.

CUL Online Exhibitions Committee Policy

  • Steven Calco (ILR) (convener)
  • Eveline Ferretti (Mann)
  • Craig Mains (Olin/Uris)
  • Emily Zinger (Kroch Asia)
  • Phoebe Kowalewski (RMC)
Active Exhibit Curators
Other Stakeholders
  • Jesi Buell
  • Phil Robinson


Alternate Platforms


Reference Documentation


Spotlight Exhibits at other institutions



Top Near Term Goals

Active

Goals listed in Priority Order
  • accessibility compliance
  • redesign home page
  • review user logins
  • improve load times of images
  • analyze nginx 500 problem
Staffing Notes:
  • Melissa


Roadmap Requests


  • none yet
  • none yet

Most recent completion listed first.

  • release Spotlight 3.3 upgrade
  • validate migration to Spotlight 3
  • convert database from latin1 to utf8
  • incorporate analytics
  • fix loosing images for pages widget
  • fix bulk upload
  • curate front page tags
  • identify tests to run to confirm migration acceptable
  • upgrade to latest Spotlight v2.13.0 (migration analysis)
  • upgrade Spotlight to v1.5.3
  • setup DoIt Yourself, Do It Together exhibit
  • setup Chinese Traditional Dress exhibit
  • setup Arachnophilia exhibit
  • setup Heavy Metal: The Malleability of Fashion exhibit
  • setup Black Excellence: Fashion exhibit
  • setup Fashion & Feathers exhibit
  • move project to AWS (issue)
  • resolve data integrity issues in production data
  • delete outdated exhibits
  • setup 50th Anniversary of Earth Day exhibit
  • setup Language of Flowers exhibit
  • setup Out of the Teeming Sea: Glass Invertebrate Models exhibit
  • setup Mann library exhibits being recreated in Spotlight (15 exhibits with initial setup by Kevin Kidwell)
  • setup Women Empowered exhibit
  • setup Texture exhibit
  • learn about existing project
  • determine current spotlight version (1.4.1)
  • determine target spotlight version (latest is 2.3.0)
  • none yet


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