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JSTOR Forum User Group Meeting
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Image Cataloging and Access Working Group has been tracking a few system issues that we thought the user community should be aware of, namely:
- Harvest issues - nightly harvests from Forum to Harvard discovery systems were regularly experiencing failures that required catalogers to frequently republish, at this time the issue should be self correcting in that if a harvest fails one night, it will get picked up in the next harvest automatically. It is still recommended that catalogers check images in HOLLIS Images (HI) as sometimes a “successful” harvest will skip a few images. This primarily seems to be a local problem to FAL. Images should appear in HOLLIS Images in the afternoon the next day after publishing.
- Group record functionality - at this time it is not possible to publish new group records or edit old group records. This issue is still under investigation by LTS.
- We track all issues and bugs and are preparing for an eventual reharvest which we hope will fix a number of incorrect/buggy issues in HI like duplicate titles, missing record IDs, etc.
- Harvest issues - nightly harvests from Forum to Harvard discovery systems were regularly experiencing failures that required catalogers to frequently republish, at this time the issue should be self correcting in that if a harvest fails one night, it will get picked up in the next harvest automatically. It is still recommended that catalogers check images in HOLLIS Images (HI) as sometimes a “successful” harvest will skip a few images. This primarily seems to be a local problem to FAL. Images should appear in HOLLIS Images in the afternoon the next day after publishing.
- Other initiatives/projects:
- We worked with Amy Deschenes to conduct Image Research interviews
- Wanted to learn if HDC could replace HOLLIS Images - Doesn’t replace it right now; missing some functionality
- Key takeaway: Researchers start with Google Images – we should rethink if we want our data to be exposed to Google Images
- Wanted to learn if HDC could replace HOLLIS Images - Doesn’t replace it right now; missing some functionality
- Vitaly Zakuta met with working group re: IIIF redesign
- Learn more on the IIIF Redesign Project wiki page
- Learn more on the IIIF Redesign Project wiki page
- We invited Jennifer Jubinville from LTS to discuss ongoing system issues and LTS support
- We worked with Amy Deschenes to conduct Image Research interviews
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