Uploading documents for trancsription

[David Paterson]

Hi everyone,

I have another dumb question (sorry, I'm new to all this).

I'm creating a test project for Queensland State Archives, to see if community transcription could work for us, and whether Scripto (on Omeka) is the right technology.

So ... I have managed to install Omeka, Mediawiki and Scripto at itranscribe.com.au/omeka (redirect not set up yet)

Now I've looked through all the supporting documentation and for the life of me I can't find how to transcribe a document.

As a test, I've added an item through the Omeka interface, but I can't see how to transcribe it, and I'm now getting the feeling that I've missed a vital step.

The closest I've come to getting to transcribing is this page: http://www.itranscribe.com.au/omeka/scripto/transcribe/1/1#transcription

But I don't understand what the commands Import document, Unwatch page, Protect page, Import page mean. None of these functions work for me.

Perhaps these are some clues as to what's gone wrong :

On the History page it says "This page has not yet been created."

And when I go to the Wiki page, I get this message:

.MQ.MQ

There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs, or edit this page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

David

[Jim Safley]

I apologize for taking so long to reply. I assume your MediaWiki installation is working (since Scripto is working) and you've logged into Scripto (since you're seeing the administrative controls).

On the page that you link, click the "edit" link and a textarea will show up. This is where you transcribe the file. Scripto's media viewer should be showing up on that page, but it's not---possibly because your server isn't interpreting the file's MIME type.

As for the unwatch page, protect page, and import page controls: please review the documentation to see how they work: http://scripto.org/documentation/omeka-scripto/omeka-scripto-editors-role/

Jim

[David Paterson]

Thanks for your help Jim.

You say that the Scripto media viewer isn't showing because my server isn't interpreting the file's MIME type.

Do you know how I can fix this?

Thanks,

D

[Jim Safley]

After taking a closer look I see that your installation is, in fact, interpreting the file's MIME type, but isn't generating derivative (thumbnail) images. Your server may not have ImageMagick installed or you haven't configured the "ImageMagick Directory Path" in your general settings.

By default, Scripto renders a thumbnail image on the transcription page (this is why you can't see it), but you can configure the plugin to render the original image in an OpenLayers image viewer (the Zoom.it service is not functional, unfortunately).

Jim

[David Paterson]

I've changed the image viewer to OpenLayers and an image of the document is now rendering on the page. Thanks for that.

As for ImageMagick, I can't seem to install it as I don't have SSH access to the server, and from what I can tell, you can only install and configure it via commands.

I've already unpacked the files - do you know if there's some way I can install the software via CPanel? I've searched around on the net but can't find any instructions.

Thanks,

D

 document is now 

[Jim Safley]

I'm sorry, I don't know. You should try changing Omeka's thumbnail creation strategy as described here: https://omeka.org/codex/Configuring_Thumbnail_Creation 

-Jim

[David Paterson]

Thanks Jim. I tried changing the file derivative strategy to GD, but the thumbnails still aren't showing.

I've asked our hosting provider to see if they can install ImageMagick ... Now it's just a waiting game.

Thanks again for your help,

David

[Peter Marquis-Kyle]

David, when if read this exchange I remembered that I followed a suggestion in this forum post -- http://omeka.org/forums/topic/installing-without-proc_openon-shared-hosting -- and changed the fileDerivatives.strategy line in config.ini to use Imagick rather than ImageMagik.

In my case this was necessary because some of the php functions that are needed to execute ImageMagik had been disabled on my shared host. My hosting provider suggested upgrading from a Shared Host to a Managed Virtual Host (at much higher cost) so I was pleased to find that Imagick did the trick.

(For the record, my site is hosted by digitalpacific.com.au)

Cheers

Peter

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[David Paterson]

Thanks Peter.

I tried the suggestion but got the following error - not sure what it means!

Omeka_File_Derivative_Exception

This derivative strategy requires ext/imagick

exception 'Omeka_File_Derivative_Exception' with message 'This derivative strategy requires ext/imagick.' in /home/itit6435/public_html/omeka/application/libraries/Omeka/File/Derivative/Strategy/Imagick.php:27
Stack trace:
#0 /home/itit6435/public_html/omeka/application/libraries/Omeka/Application/Resource/Filederivatives.php(43): Omeka_File_Derivative_Strategy_Imagick->__construct()
#1 /home/itit6435/public_html/omeka/application/libraries/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(695): Omeka_Application_Resource_Filederivatives->init()
#2 /home/itit6435/public_html/omeka/application/libraries/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(638): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_executeResource('filederivatives')
#3 /home/itit6435/public_html/omeka/application/libraries/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/BootstrapAbstract.php(598): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->_bootstrap(NULL)
#4 /home/itit6435/public_html/omeka/application/libraries/Zend/Application.php(371): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract->bootstrap(NULL)
#5 /home/itit6435/public_html/omeka/application/libraries/Omeka/Application.php(51): Zend_Application->bootstrap()
#6 /home/itit6435/public_html/omeka/index.php(23): Omeka_Application->initialize()
#7 {main}

[Peter Marquis-Kyle]

I think that error means that the imagick extension for php is not installed on your server. I suggest you ask your web host about this.