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.
Upcoming Meetings
- near 2021-02-22 Exhibit Developers on Other Platforms
- near 2021-03-01 Exhibits Management Group
Progress update on GitHub Accessibility Issues
near 2021-02-23 Technical Staff
(postponed for analysis of Spotlight 3.0)
Completed Meetings
- 2021-02-09 Technical Staff
- 2020-09-08 Mann Library Staff
Spotlight Call - IIIF & Spotlight
2020-06-12 Community- 2020-05-08 Community
- 2020-03-18 Developers/Sys Opts
- 2018-12-19 Developers/Sys Opts
- 2018-10-31 Developers
- 2018-10-29 Stakeholders
Spotlight Community Call
(generally 2nd Friday of each month)
CUL Project Members
Developers
- Lynette Rayle (backend, technical lead)
- Melissa Wallace (frontend)
- Kevin Kidwell (accessibility, Mann exhibits coordinator)
- Greg Delisle (SysOpts)
Librarian and Archivist Management Group for Exhibits
- Steven Calco and Marcie Farwell (ILR)
- TBD (Mann)
- TBD (RMC)
- TBD (Olin/Uris)
- TBD (Kroch Asia)
Active Exhibit Curators
- See Exhibit Status page for list of exhibits and owners
Potential Exhibit Curators
- Ken Williams (RMC)
Other Stackholders
- Adam Smith
- Darcy Branchini
Related Projects
- cul-it/exhibits-solr
- cul-it/exhibits-dev-solr
- cul-it/exhibits-library-cornell-edu-solr
- cul-it/kheel-exhibits-migration
Reference Documentation
- CUL-IT Online Exhibits -- Maintenance and Sys-Opts Documentation
- Configure S3 data storage for Spotlight
- Set up Sidekiq for Rails app on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Spotlight Exhibits at other institutions
- TAMU Austin Map exhibit (rare map)
- Stanford Exhibits
Top Near Term Goals
Active
Goals listed in Priority Order
- convert database from latin1 to utf8
- accessibility compliance
- analyze nginx 500 problem
Staffing Notes:
- Lynette 25%
- Melissa
- Kevin
Live Sites
Project Documents
- Requirements and Workplan
- Technical Documents
Reference Material
- dependency code
- projectblacklight/blacklight (github)
- projectblacklight/spotlight code (github)
- communications
- slack channels
- blacklight (slack) - ask development questions here
- spotlight-service (slack) - ask repo manager questions here
- mail lists
- spotlight-community list (google group) - not sure this exists
- blacklight-development list (google group) - announces spotlight meetings here
- meetings
- Spotlight Community Meeting Agenda (Monthly on 2nd Fri, 2pm et)
- slack channels