Re: [CODE4LIB] Capturing Scroll Downs in an exchanged Gmail

[Gareth Evans]

On Wed 27 Sep 2023, at 01:36, Gareth Evans  wrote:
> This does seem to be an overlay, and the underlying HTML for the email 
> can be viewed in the browser's View Source feature (Ctrl+U in most 
> cases)

Or Cmd+U in most (browser) cases, in the case of macOS.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Capturing Scroll Downs in an exchanged Gmail

[Gareth Evans]

This does seem to be an overlay, and the underlying HTML for the email can be 
viewed in the browser's View Source feature (Ctrl+U in most cases), apparently 
even if logged out. Though not an ideal solution, you may be able to make some 
use of it.


On Wed 27 Sep 2023, at 01:31, Gareth Evans  wrote:
> Grr, apologies, this doesn't seem to work for gmail, which says the 
> account is unavailable on reloading the saved page.
>
> On Wed 27 Sep 2023, at 01:17, Gareth Evans  wrote:
>> Hi Charles,
>>
>> If you are using Firefox then Alt+F will bring up the File menu, even 
>> if it isn't normally visible.
>>
>> You can then choose 
>>
>> "Save Page As..."
>>
>> This usually has the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+S, but this may be 
>> overridden by email web application shortcuts.
>>
>> Saving the page will result in a .html file and a directory, with names such 
>> as:
>>
>> Name of Some Page.html (file)
>> Name of Some Page_files (directory)
>>
>> Opening the file ending in .html causes the page to be reconstructed 
>> locally in the browser from the resources saved in the corresponding 
>> directory, which reflects your view at the time of saving.  
>>
>> You then have a WYSIWYG copy, though "WYSIWYG" in this context refers 
>> to some extent to the way your webmail provider formats things, as well 
>> as features intrinsic to the email. 
>>
>> Printing or saving this to a PDF may be useful.
>>
>> There was a move to make email content dynamic a few years ago and I'm 
>> not sure what happened with that, in terms of adoption, so a saved page 
>> may not necessarily always reproduce the precise original content after 
>> some time.  Some providers shunned the idea.  By way of background, 
>> please see for example:
>>
>> https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-is-your-electronic-memory/
>> https://developers.google.com/gmail/ampemail
>> https://amp.dev/about/email
>>
>> Please let me know if any queries.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Gareth
>>
>>
>> On Tue 26 Sep 2023, at 23:22, charles meyer  wrote:
>>> My esteemed listmates,
>>>
>>> This is a very serious.
>>>
>>> Normally, in Firefox when I want to take a screenshot of all that I see as
>>> I scroll down the page  I press Ctrl + Shift + K and then type in
>>> :screenshot --fullpage and it captures WYSIWYG in a PNG on to my hard drive.
>>>
>>> I try that with back and forth emails in Gmail but that doesn't work.
>>>
>>> If I want to capture all the emails exchanged with a person in a gmail
>>> account normally I press Reply or Forward I can capture all the back and
>>> forty.
>>>
>>> That doesn't work with this gmail exchange.
>>>
>>> I'vde taken to snapping photos wiht my cell phone of each screen as I
>>> screen down to capture the WYSIWYG.
>>>
>>> In Chrome and The Edge I can use that Screen Devouring icon which resembles
>>> a Pac Man as it bites along the screen from left to right and captures all
>>> the scrolling down as WYSIWYG but I must use FF in this case.
>>>
>>> Is there any Screen Devouring extension for FF?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your understanding, nonjudgmental help.
>>>
>>> Charles.
>>>
>>> Charlotte County Public Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Capturing Scroll Downs in an exchanged Gmail

[Gareth Evans]

Grr, apologies, this doesn't seem to work for gmail, which says the account is 
unavailable on reloading the saved page.

On Wed 27 Sep 2023, at 01:17, Gareth Evans  wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> If you are using Firefox then Alt+F will bring up the File menu, even 
> if it isn't normally visible.
>
> You can then choose 
>
> "Save Page As..."
>
> This usually has the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+S, but this may be 
> overridden by email web application shortcuts.
>
> Saving the page will result in a .html file and a directory, with names such 
> as:
>
> Name of Some Page.html (file)
> Name of Some Page_files (directory)
>
> Opening the file ending in .html causes the page to be reconstructed 
> locally in the browser from the resources saved in the corresponding 
> directory, which reflects your view at the time of saving.  
>
> You then have a WYSIWYG copy, though "WYSIWYG" in this context refers 
> to some extent to the way your webmail provider formats things, as well 
> as features intrinsic to the email. 
>
> Printing or saving this to a PDF may be useful.
>
> There was a move to make email content dynamic a few years ago and I'm 
> not sure what happened with that, in terms of adoption, so a saved page 
> may not necessarily always reproduce the precise original content after 
> some time.  Some providers shunned the idea.  By way of background, 
> please see for example:
>
> https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-is-your-electronic-memory/
> https://developers.google.com/gmail/ampemail
> https://amp.dev/about/email
>
> Please let me know if any queries.
>
> Best wishes,
> Gareth
>
>
> On Tue 26 Sep 2023, at 23:22, charles meyer  wrote:
>> My esteemed listmates,
>>
>> This is a very serious.
>>
>> Normally, in Firefox when I want to take a screenshot of all that I see as
>> I scroll down the page  I press Ctrl + Shift + K and then type in
>> :screenshot --fullpage and it captures WYSIWYG in a PNG on to my hard drive.
>>
>> I try that with back and forth emails in Gmail but that doesn't work.
>>
>> If I want to capture all the emails exchanged with a person in a gmail
>> account normally I press Reply or Forward I can capture all the back and
>> forty.
>>
>> That doesn't work with this gmail exchange.
>>
>> I'vde taken to snapping photos wiht my cell phone of each screen as I
>> screen down to capture the WYSIWYG.
>>
>> In Chrome and The Edge I can use that Screen Devouring icon which resembles
>> a Pac Man as it bites along the screen from left to right and captures all
>> the scrolling down as WYSIWYG but I must use FF in this case.
>>
>> Is there any Screen Devouring extension for FF?
>>
>> Thank you for your understanding, nonjudgmental help.
>>
>> Charles.
>>
>> Charlotte County Public Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Capturing Scroll Downs in an exchanged Gmail

[Andreas Orphanides]

I haven't figured out a way to do a full-page printout of gmail in Firefox
-- I believe because the window that's scrolling in gmail isn't actually
the web page itself, it's just a random page element. When you try to
"capture entire page" (which there is a screen-capture option in Firefox
for if you hit ctrl-shift-S), gmail will always just show the currently
visible bit of message.

Gmail does, however, have a mechanism to print out a full threaded
conversation. In the upper right of a conversation is a printer icon. If
you mouse-over this it says, "Print all".

[image: image.png]

Clicking it will give a print preview with all the messages in the thread
opened up and in order. You can save this as a PDF to keep a record of the
entire conversation. It will be paginated, though.

It's not a pixel-perfect rendition of the gmail window, but it should
contain all the information that was in the original messages. I am not
sure if this is adequate for your needs, but it is a convenient and
built-into-gmail option.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 6:13 PM charles meyer 
wrote:

> My esteemed listmates,
>
> This is a very serious.
>
> Normally, in Firefox when I want to take a screenshot of all that I see as
> I scroll down the page  I press Ctrl + Shift + K and then type in
> :screenshot --fullpage and it captures WYSIWYG in a PNG on to my hard
> drive.
>
> I try that with back and forth emails in Gmail but that doesn't work.
>
> If I want to capture all the emails exchanged with a person in a gmail
> account normally I press Reply or Forward I can capture all the back and
> forty.
>
> That doesn't work with this gmail exchange.
>
> I'vde taken to snapping photos wiht my cell phone of each screen as I
> screen down to capture the WYSIWYG.
>
> In Chrome and The Edge I can use that Screen Devouring icon which resembles
> a Pac Man as it bites along the screen from left to right and captures all
> the scrolling down as WYSIWYG but I must use FF in this case.
>
> Is there any Screen Devouring extension for FF?
>
> Thank you for your understanding, nonjudgmental help.
>
> Charles.
>
> Charlotte County Public Library
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Capturing Scroll Downs in an exchanged Gmail

[Gareth Evans]

Hi Charles,

If you are using Firefox then Alt+F will bring up the File menu, even if it 
isn't normally visible.

You can then choose 

"Save Page As..."

This usually has the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+S, but this may be overridden by 
email web application shortcuts.

Saving the page will result in a .html file and a directory, with names such as:

Name of Some Page.html (file)
Name of Some Page_files (directory)

Opening the file ending in .html causes the page to be reconstructed locally in 
the browser from the resources saved in the corresponding directory, which 
reflects your view at the time of saving.  

You then have a WYSIWYG copy, though "WYSIWYG" in this context refers to some 
extent to the way your webmail provider formats things, as well as features 
intrinsic to the email. 

Printing or saving this to a PDF may be useful.

There was a move to make email content dynamic a few years ago and I'm not sure 
what happened with that, in terms of adoption, so a saved page may not 
necessarily always reproduce the precise original content after some time.  
Some providers shunned the idea.  By way of background, please see for example:

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-is-your-electronic-memory/
https://developers.google.com/gmail/ampemail
https://amp.dev/about/email

Please let me know if any queries.

Best wishes,
Gareth


On Tue 26 Sep 2023, at 23:22, charles meyer  wrote:
> My esteemed listmates,
>
> This is a very serious.
>
> Normally, in Firefox when I want to take a screenshot of all that I see as
> I scroll down the page  I press Ctrl + Shift + K and then type in
> :screenshot --fullpage and it captures WYSIWYG in a PNG on to my hard drive.
>
> I try that with back and forth emails in Gmail but that doesn't work.
>
> If I want to capture all the emails exchanged with a person in a gmail
> account normally I press Reply or Forward I can capture all the back and
> forty.
>
> That doesn't work with this gmail exchange.
>
> I'vde taken to snapping photos wiht my cell phone of each screen as I
> screen down to capture the WYSIWYG.
>
> In Chrome and The Edge I can use that Screen Devouring icon which resembles
> a Pac Man as it bites along the screen from left to right and captures all
> the scrolling down as WYSIWYG but I must use FF in this case.
>
> Is there any Screen Devouring extension for FF?
>
> Thank you for your understanding, nonjudgmental help.
>
> Charles.
>
> Charlotte County Public Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Capturing Scroll Downs in an exchanged Gmail

[Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many]

Hi,

Sorry for my intense name, long story still working on it.

I think the easiest and quickest solution here would be to view the
conversation in HTML Gmail so the normal scrolling functions of the
browser work.

You can access HTML Gmail at a url like
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ <- note there is an "/h/" in the
URL after the account number. Adding this "/h/" takes you to Basic
HTML Gmail.

Pending that, you could also use the page inspector to mutate the DOM
live so all the emails are present.

The approaches you mention are cool and new to me and I'm looking them
up and trying them out. I don't see a Screen Devouring icon on my
Chrome, maybe I don't know where to look.

Regards,

On 9/26/23, charles meyer  wrote:
> My esteemed listmates,
>
> This is a very serious.
>
> Normally, in Firefox when I want to take a screenshot of all that I see as
> I scroll down the page  I press Ctrl + Shift + K and then type in
> :screenshot --fullpage and it captures WYSIWYG in a PNG on to my hard
> drive.
>
> I try that with back and forth emails in Gmail but that doesn't work.
>
> If I want to capture all the emails exchanged with a person in a gmail
> account normally I press Reply or Forward I can capture all the back and
> forty.
>
> That doesn't work with this gmail exchange.
>
> I'vde taken to snapping photos wiht my cell phone of each screen as I
> screen down to capture the WYSIWYG.
>
> In Chrome and The Edge I can use that Screen Devouring icon which resembles
> a Pac Man as it bites along the screen from left to right and captures all
> the scrolling down as WYSIWYG but I must use FF in this case.
>
> Is there any Screen Devouring extension for FF?
>
> Thank you for your understanding, nonjudgmental help.
>
> Charles.
>
> Charlotte County Public Library
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Cloud storage providers

[Francis Kayiwa]

Heya Jeff,


On 9/26/23 3:35 PM, Jeffrey Sabol wrote:

Hello Colleagues,

I am looking for an inexpensive cloud storage provider for mostly documents
for my faculty union.  Recommendation beyond the big name providers would
be helpful.


Are you expecting feature parity with AWS S3?

If that is the case I found and used Scaleway's object and c14 storage 
to mostly meet it.
Otherwise, and I haven't looked at this in 3 years so your mileage will 
vary, wasabi's offerings are significantly less expensive. When we 
settled on Scaleway we found Wasabi to fall short on a feature I cannot 
recall now.


AWS will also say S3 glacier may fit your bill.

Sincerely,
./fxk



Jeff Sabol
Long Beach City College

[CODE4LIB] Registration open for SJSU Biennial Open Access UnConference

[Nick Szydlowski]

Join the San José State University Library for its Biennial Open Access
UnConference .
This free, virtual event will offer opportunities for discussion and dialog
on critical issues in scholarly communications. We welcome participation
from all viewpoints and stakeholders in the scholarly communications
process, including students and early career professionals.

When: October 25, 2023 10 AM - 2 PM PDT (Time converter
)

Where: Online via Zoom

Price: Free

What is an unconference?

An unconference is a loosely structured event that prioritizes the informal
exchange of information and ideas between participants over a highly
structured program of contributed content. This is your opportunity to
connect with your fellow OA-enthusiasts.

What will we talk about?

You get to decide! You can submit topic ideas on the theme Community over
Commercialization  when you register.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:


   -

   Open scholarship of all sorts, including OERs, Open Science, Open Data,
   Open Humanities, Open Knowledge;
   -

   Commercialization of OA models;
   -

   Proprietary versus community-minded infrastructure;
   -

   Read and Publish or “Transformative” agreements;
   -

   Garnering support from faculty, administrators, and legislators;
   -

   Preservation of open content;
   -

   Ethics of open content, including invisible labor embedded in OA
   creation, authors rights, content scraping by AI, etc.;
   -

   Economic issues in the scholarly communication environment, including
   publisher consolidation, distribution of resources and profits, and
   economic incentives of relevant actors and stakeholders.


Great! How do I participate?

Register at tiny.sjsu.edu/oa2023.

If you have questions, contact Dawn Hackman, Health Sciences and Scholarly
Communications Librarian, SJSU Library at dawn.hack...@sjsu.edu.

-- 
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
San José State University
nick.szydlow...@sjsu.edu
408 808-2354
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[CODE4LIB] Capturing Scroll Downs in an exchanged Gmail

[charles meyer]

My esteemed listmates,

This is a very serious.

Normally, in Firefox when I want to take a screenshot of all that I see as
I scroll down the page  I press Ctrl + Shift + K and then type in
:screenshot --fullpage and it captures WYSIWYG in a PNG on to my hard drive.

I try that with back and forth emails in Gmail but that doesn't work.

If I want to capture all the emails exchanged with a person in a gmail
account normally I press Reply or Forward I can capture all the back and
forty.

That doesn't work with this gmail exchange.

I'vde taken to snapping photos wiht my cell phone of each screen as I
screen down to capture the WYSIWYG.

In Chrome and The Edge I can use that Screen Devouring icon which resembles
a Pac Man as it bites along the screen from left to right and captures all
the scrolling down as WYSIWYG but I must use FF in this case.

Is there any Screen Devouring extension for FF?

Thank you for your understanding, nonjudgmental help.

Charles.

Charlotte County Public Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)]

We are experimenting with the DSpace Connector for “exhibits” in Omeka S. We 
don’t have any live ones to show yet, but we are moving in that direction. We 
did get the connector to work and are reviewing guidelines for it’s use here.

Lisa Haitz
UC Libraries
University of Cincinnati Libraries

From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of David Dean 

Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 3:18 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG 
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?
External Email: Use Caution


I'd also be interested in what others have done, since even with DSpace 7.x 
sites the frontend configuration can only change so much!

We did some work a few years ago to connect Blacklight to the Solr instance on 
one of our DSpace systems. I'm not a Ruby dev by any means, but it still only 
took about two weeks to get a basic interface set up with thumbnails and custom 
facets.

Omeka S also has a DSpace connector that can import metadata from targeted 
collections. That could be a more approachable option.

Thanks!

-David

David Dean (he/him)
Associate Director - IT
New Jersey State Library
dd...@njstatelib.org

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Enterprise Systems Analyst at The Seattle Public Library

[Margie Huth]

Apply Online at Enterprise Systems Analyst | Government Jobs


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The anticipated schedule for this role is Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00
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This position is open to the public and to The Seattle Public Library's
employees. Please read the How to Apply section of this bulletin for more
information. This recruitment will be open until the position is filled.
Online applications that have been submitted with a cover letter and resume
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consideration.

Overview

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The Library works every day to foster and support a healthy city and a
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Library employees are highly regarded by the public for their knowledge,
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invites you to apply for the Enterprise Systems Analyst position.

As a member of the Applications Team, part of the Information Technology
Department, the Enterprise Systems Analyst will support enterprise
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Primary responsibilities will focus on M365 including SharePoint Online,
the Power Platform, and other communication and collaborations
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This position will be responsible for the creation of standard operating
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Implementing best practices and driving automation of processes in
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Job Responsibilities


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   - SharePoint Online administration and management including site
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Qualifications


   - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent
   experience
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[CODE4LIB] Cloud storage providers

[Jeffrey Sabol]

Hello Colleagues,

I am looking for an inexpensive cloud storage provider for mostly documents
for my faculty union.  Recommendation beyond the big name providers would
be helpful.

Jeff Sabol
Long Beach City College

Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[David Dean]

I'd also be interested in what others have done, since even with DSpace 7.x 
sites the frontend configuration can only change so much!

We did some work a few years ago to connect Blacklight to the Solr instance on 
one of our DSpace systems. I'm not a Ruby dev by any means, but it still only 
took about two weeks to get a basic interface set up with thumbnails and custom 
facets.

Omeka S also has a DSpace connector that can import metadata from targeted 
collections. That could be a more approachable option.

Thanks!

-David

David Dean (he/him)
Associate Director - IT
New Jersey State Library
dd...@njstatelib.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[Pennington, Buddy D.]

Kayla,

I don't know about Omeka Classic but Omeka S has a DSpace Connector module that 
might be able to be utilized for your use case.

https://omeka.org/s/modules/DspaceConnector/
https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/modules/dspaceconnector/

We do not use it here so I can't speak to its functionality in practical terms.

Buddy Pennington (He/him)
Head of Systems & Technology
Miller Nichols Library, 308D
800 East 51st Street

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries  On Behalf Of Bess Sadler
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 2:00 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

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Hi, Kayla.

This is certainly possible, and we did something like this at Princeton 
University Library, but it was not an out of the box solution. We set up a 
Blacklight site to index only the research data from our legacy DSpace site, 
which you can see here: https://datacommons.princeton.edu/discovery/

This required creating a list of the collections we consider research data:
https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_discovery/blob/main/config/collections.csv

Then for each collection, we used the DSpace API to get the metadata in XML and 
index it to solr with traject:
https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_discovery/blob/main/app/lib/dspace_research_data_harvester.rb#L30

So, I don't know if it's possible with Omeka or Wordpress, but it's definitely 
possible with Blacklight (but does require custom development).
Presumably you could also get it working with Spotlight if you wanted more of a 
custom exhibit site.

I hope this helps!
Bess Sadler
Princeton University Library

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:14 AM Kayla Abner  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a question about possibly using DSpace as a "database" / server
> and whether or not we could design multiple frontends that draw from
> it. Here's the ideal situation I have in mind:
>
>1. A faculty member wants to build a "digital archive" for their stuff
>2. We upload their stuff into our DSpace instance
>3. We or they design a unique frontend for people to interact with the
>stuff in DSpace.
>
> For step 3, could this be done in Omeka? Wordpress? Something else?
> This would enable each "archive" to have its own plane of existence on
> the internet, and allow for customization if someone wants a map, or
> drop-down menus to search the archive, etc., depending on their needs.
>
> I usually recommend things like Airtable, Omeka, and eHive for this
> type of project, but more and more these platforms don't meet the
> needs of academics. I have an intermediate understanding of hosting
> and websites, so I appreciate any ideas you all have!
>
> Stay well,
>
> 
>
> Kayla Abner
>
> (she/her)
>
> *Digital Scholarship Librarian*
>
> Digital Initiatives and Preservation
>
> Library, Museums and Press
>
> University of Delaware
>
> kab...@udel.edu
>
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Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[Bess Sadler]

Hi, Kayla.

This is certainly possible, and we did something like this at Princeton
University Library, but it was not an out of the box solution. We set up a
Blacklight site to index only the research data from our legacy DSpace
site, which you can see here: https://datacommons.princeton.edu/discovery/

This required creating a list of the collections we consider research data:
https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_discovery/blob/main/config/collections.csv

Then for each collection, we used the DSpace API to get the metadata in XML
and index it to solr with traject:
https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_discovery/blob/main/app/lib/dspace_research_data_harvester.rb#L30

So, I don't know if it's possible with Omeka or Wordpress, but it's
definitely possible with Blacklight (but does require custom development).
Presumably you could also get it working with Spotlight if you wanted more
of a custom exhibit site.

I hope this helps!
Bess Sadler
Princeton University Library

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:14 AM Kayla Abner  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a question about possibly using DSpace as a "database" / server and
> whether or not we could design multiple frontends that draw from it. Here's
> the ideal situation I have in mind:
>
>1. A faculty member wants to build a "digital archive" for their stuff
>2. We upload their stuff into our DSpace instance
>3. We or they design a unique frontend for people to interact with the
>stuff in DSpace.
>
> For step 3, could this be done in Omeka? Wordpress? Something else? This
> would enable each "archive" to have its own plane of existence on the
> internet, and allow for customization if someone wants a map, or drop-down
> menus to search the archive, etc., depending on their needs.
>
> I usually recommend things like Airtable, Omeka, and eHive for this type of
> project, but more and more these platforms don't meet the needs of
> academics. I have an intermediate understanding of hosting and websites, so
> I appreciate any ideas you all have!
>
> Stay well,
>
> 
>
> Kayla Abner
>
> (she/her)
>
> *Digital Scholarship Librarian*
>
> Digital Initiatives and Preservation
>
> Library, Museums and Press
>
> University of Delaware
>
> kab...@udel.edu
>
>
> ***The **University of Delaware, a land grant institution, is located on
> land that was and continues to be vital to the web of life of the Nanticoke
> and Lenni-Lenape people. We express gratitude and honor the people who have
> inhabited, cultivated, and nourished this land for thousands of years, even
> after their attempted forced removal during the colonial era and early
> federal period*. The University of Delaware also financially benefitted
> from the expropriation of Indigenous territories in the region colonially
> known as Montana. View the full Living Land Acknowledgement
> <
> https://sites.udel.edu/antiracism-initiative/committees/american-indian-and-indigenous-relations/living-land-acknowledgement/#Living_Land_Acknowledgement
> >
> .
>
>
> [image: University of Delaware]
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[Hugh Cayless]

From the perspective of someone currently wrestling with a DSpace upgrade: It 
will certainly support multiple front ends—its basic setup (for v7+ anyway) is 
as a REST API plus a front end written in Angular. The front end is pretty 
customizable, but it is not as easy to work with as WordPress or Omeka, and 
while technically you could get either of those to talk to DSpace’s API, in 
practice that would be a lot of quite technical development. DSpace also 
expects a fairly consistent data model for items stored within it and that 
might not be flexible enough for what you’re describing.

Honestly, these days I usually recommend something static with data sources in 
XML or JSON, depending on what they are. Platforms are generally too unwieldy / 
too restrictive and you often don’t really need an RDBMS backend or a search 
engine for an individual scholarly project.

All the best,
Hugh

> On Sep 26, 2023, at 11:13 AM, Kayla Abner  wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a question about possibly using DSpace as a "database" / server and
> whether or not we could design multiple frontends that draw from it. Here's
> the ideal situation I have in mind:
> 
>   1. A faculty member wants to build a "digital archive" for their stuff
>   2. We upload their stuff into our DSpace instance
>   3. We or they design a unique frontend for people to interact with the
>   stuff in DSpace.
> 
> For step 3, could this be done in Omeka? Wordpress? Something else? This
> would enable each "archive" to have its own plane of existence on the
> internet, and allow for customization if someone wants a map, or drop-down
> menus to search the archive, etc., depending on their needs.
> 
> I usually recommend things like Airtable, Omeka, and eHive for this type of
> project, but more and more these platforms don't meet the needs of
> academics. I have an intermediate understanding of hosting and websites, so
> I appreciate any ideas you all have!
> 
> Stay well,
> 
> 
> 
> Kayla Abner
> 
> (she/her)
> 
> *Digital Scholarship Librarian*
> 
> Digital Initiatives and Preservation
> 
> Library, Museums and Press
> 
> University of Delaware
> 
> kab...@udel.edu
> 
> 
> ***The **University of Delaware, a land grant institution, is located on
> land that was and continues to be vital to the web of life of the Nanticoke
> and Lenni-Lenape people. We express gratitude and honor the people who have
> inhabited, cultivated, and nourished this land for thousands of years, even
> after their attempted forced removal during the colonial era and early
> federal period*. The University of Delaware also financially benefitted
> from the expropriation of Indigenous territories in the region colonially
> known as Montana. View the full Living Land Acknowledgement
> 
> .
> 
> 
> [image: University of Delaware]

[CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[Kayla Abner]

Hello all,

I have a question about possibly using DSpace as a "database" / server and
whether or not we could design multiple frontends that draw from it. Here's
the ideal situation I have in mind:

   1. A faculty member wants to build a "digital archive" for their stuff
   2. We upload their stuff into our DSpace instance
   3. We or they design a unique frontend for people to interact with the
   stuff in DSpace.

For step 3, could this be done in Omeka? Wordpress? Something else? This
would enable each "archive" to have its own plane of existence on the
internet, and allow for customization if someone wants a map, or drop-down
menus to search the archive, etc., depending on their needs.

I usually recommend things like Airtable, Omeka, and eHive for this type of
project, but more and more these platforms don't meet the needs of
academics. I have an intermediate understanding of hosting and websites, so
I appreciate any ideas you all have!

Stay well,



Kayla Abner

(she/her)

*Digital Scholarship Librarian*

Digital Initiatives and Preservation

Library, Museums and Press

University of Delaware

kab...@udel.edu


***The **University of Delaware, a land grant institution, is located on
land that was and continues to be vital to the web of life of the Nanticoke
and Lenni-Lenape people. We express gratitude and honor the people who have
inhabited, cultivated, and nourished this land for thousands of years, even
after their attempted forced removal during the colonial era and early
federal period*. The University of Delaware also financially benefitted
from the expropriation of Indigenous territories in the region colonially
known as Montana. View the full Living Land Acknowledgement

.


[image: University of Delaware]