Making a checklist for transitioning to new version of Curatescape

[Eli Pousson]

Congrats to Erin and Mark on an amazing new version for Curatescape! I know it has been a labor of love and I'm sure I'm not alone in my excitement over the visual design refresh and access to the major usability improvements in Omeka 2.0.

I thought it might be helpful to other Curatescape users to share a checklist (see below) that I'm putting together to support our transition from the older version of Omeka to the new one. Clearly we can't change everything overnight but I'm hoping we'll catch up with all of our published stories over the last few weeks. I also included some instructions (also below) that I drafted for a volunteer who will be helping us update our image captions.

One question - Does anyone have a good workflow for replacing older 800px wide images with new 1024px wide images? If it is possible to replace the image file without needing to re-enter all of the captions, that would be really helpful.

I also stuck the resources below into that Google Document I set up last year:

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 Curatescape - Project Management Resources

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Thanks!

Best,

Eli

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Curatescape Checklist for Migrating from Omeka 1 to 2

For each public story in our Curatescape installation, we need to:

• Write a Subtitle
  
• Write a Lede
  
• Insert direct links from Story to related stories
  
• Identify Sponsors (if applicable)
  
• Identify an Official website (if applicable)
  
• Insert a Street Address
  
• Write Access Information (if applicable)
  

For each image file attached to a public story in our Curatescape installation, we need to:

• Split the existing description to fill in the Creator, Source, and Date
• Revise the description as needed

For each public tour, we need to:

• Upload an image to represent the tour in the mobile app

Directions for Updating Image Captions

 

Finding and editing image attachments

• Log in at example-curatescape-site.org/admin
• Go to the Items tab on the left-hand side
  
• Drop-down Quick Filter and select Public from the list of options
  
• Date added column and sort reverse order - oldest stories on top
  
• Open the first story in the list by clicking on the name
  
• Grid of images as attached files
  
• Click on edit for the first image
  

Changing the titles, caption and sources

• Change the title from "Title, Year" to "Title (Year)"
• Revise the description as appropriate - consider removing "Photograph of..." to replace with "Exterior view..." or "Interior view..." or "View from..."
• Move the name of the photographer or publisher from the Description field to the Creator field. If multiple creators are mentioned in the description, use the green "Add Input" button to make a new field for each name.
• Move the name of the archival source, collection and identifier into the Source field. Remove the "Image courtesy of" at the beginning and the period at the end."

Saving and moving to the next image

• Save the revised image metadata
• Select the name of the story from the right-hand side
• Select the next image to edit and repeat the process

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