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Cross-collection searching
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July 17, 2008
Mira kindly conducted a demo of Luna 6.0. VRWG members are encouraged to play with the collections at the following urls:
http://library35.library.cornell.edu:8180/luna/servlet
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet
PLEASE NOTE: THE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE END OF JULY, AFTER WHICH WE WILL TAKE
DOWN FOR A TOTAL REVAMP/UPDATE.
We will plan to meet with collection stakeholders in the coming months to discuss options for the new interface. We recommend that
collection owners review the following items to determine how to set up their individual collections:
- Media Summary: This window appears when mouse cursor is held over an image. Collection owners should determine which four
fields they want to display. We highly recommend that all collections utilize the first field to identify where the image comes from (i.e.
the collection name). The other three fields are optional. - Mapping for four categories: Who/What/Where/When Up to 20 fields can be mapped for each category. Collection owners should determine
which fields they want mapped for which category. This should have an impact on how well the cross-collection search functions. - Permissions: Determine levels of access for public vs. password-protected use. We are still determining how many levels of permissions will
be available, but in the immediate future we believe there will only be three: open-access to the public (with or without download option); open to cornell community only through authentication, and password protected access with download capability. - Image header for collection: see HFJ collection for an example.
- Protocol for naming groups- this has the potential to get very unmanageable. We should plan to discuss options/strategies at next VRWG meeting.
Again, we are not sure when Luna 6.0 will be fully implemented. In the meantime, we plan to proceed with testing and reload of Cornell Collections in test.
I will plan to call a meeting of the test plan participants later in the month.
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