aspace preservica viewer plugin

[mike saunders]

Hi all, we've had a trial for preservica, and one of my main questions is how does the plugin for archivesspace work - from previously asking on this list (and seeing a couple of examples in the wild), it seems to just link out to the digital object in archivesspace. (I don't actually know how the two things are synced yet).

During our trial i've been working on tighter integration for the PUI, with the assumption that the user might not care to move between different user interfaces. Which has resulted in a (very, very early) prototype of a plugin that i've got running in a local aspace docker, pulling data from our preservica trial instance. Here's a bit of how it works so far:

• If an aspace record has a digital object that links to preservica:

• We can click through and see the preservica folder in a page within aspace rather than going out to the preservica ui

• You can click into all these folders, view the subfolders, and view the access copy from preservica - it will load in-page (if there's a way to render it)

• It can also search the full text of items (where this has been extracted by preservica) within that digital collection

I can't work on it any more at the moment because a) our trial ends today and b) we still have to evaluate and go through a procurement process to see where we might land for a digital archive storage solution.

If others might be interested in a plugin like this, (when i've had a bit more time to work on it) i'll open the github repo and would be really interested in others thoughts and edits.

As I said it's very much in prototype and subject to a lot of change, but happy to talk to anyone on/off list who wants a bit more detail - or if you've been working on anything similar, or if there's a reason this is a misjudged idea.

Cheers!

Mike Saunders (he/him)

Library Systems
National Library of Scotland

m.sau...@nls.uk

[mike saunders]

This is my third time trying to post this message to the group, deeply embarrassing. Sorry for the spam. See earlier message for main content - here are the screenshots that did not attach.

-  preservica folder in a page within aspace (rather than going out to the preservica ui)

- browse within subfolders

- view digital objects as embedded documents

- full text and filename search within the specific preservica folder

Mike

[Joshua D. Shaw]

Hi Mike

I'd be very interested to see what you've got as I've been working on something very similar and am at a similar proof of concept stage, though I think you've got more working than I have.

Best,

Joshua

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[Kendall Aughenbaugh]

Hi Mike and everyone, 

As an institution that's fairly embedded with the integration at this point, I'd love to see something like this working in the future. My only concern would be thinking about Preservica permissions and the viewer. Does the user login to Preservica through the viewer, or does the viewer only show assets marked as "public" rather than "open"?

Anyway, this seems like an excellent idea and I'm excited to see how it develops!

Cheers, 

Kendall

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