Spotlight Community - 2 Demos posted from June 2019 Community Call
Catherine A. Aster
Hi All,
Here are the links to the two recorded demos from our Spotlight Community call on Friday, 7 June 2019. Thank you for your patience!
Demo #1 - https://youtu.be/Eo6M15vCNPI
Demo by Melissa Wallace, Web Designer & Developer, Cornell University Library, on the current state of Cornell's production Spotlight instance.
Demo #2 - https://youtu.be/WAWWTw0YWzY
Demo by Chrissy Rissmeyer, Product Owner/Manager, UC Santa Barbara, and Matt Critchlow, Application Developer, UC San Diego on Project Surfliner -- with a focus on Starlight, their collaborative project Spotlight instance.
Best regards,
Cathy
Services Manager
Catherine A. Aster
Here are the links to the two recorded demos from our Spotlight Community call on Friday, 14 August 2019.
Demo #1 - https://youtu.be/gvFuy3WyUlQ
Demo by Harvard
Library summer interns Irmarie Fraticelli-Rodriguez, Leigh Clouse, and Scott St. Louis, from the University of Michigan present on a pilot project where they contributed items from a Spotlight exhibit to Wikimedia. The project focused on the development of
an interface, which allows the user to download images and metadata from the Harvard LibraryCloud API and upload them to the Wikimedia Commons repository. As outputs, the code and workflow documentation are available on GitLab, which any user can follow to
replicate this project with their own collections.
Demo #2 - https://youtu.be/KjFXCCSH9L0
Demo
by Sierra Laddusaw on a Texas A&M University Libraries partnership with the Bryan/College Station Public Library System to create a Spotlight scavenger hunt for the 2020 Summer Reading Program. Five maps from the “Maps of Imaginary Places Collection,” held
at Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, were chosen for the exhibit. Local community members were invited to visit the Spotlight Exhibit and participate in the scavenger hunt, submit their answers via email, and be entered in a prize drawing. One of the Librarians
from the public library created sets of clues that encouraged participants to explore each map to find the answer. Sierra is an Assistant Professor at the Texas A&M University Libraries. She is the Curator of Digital Scholarship, Curator of Maps, and Co-curator
of the Chapman Texas & Borderlands Collection at Cushing Memorial Library & Archives.
Best regards,
Cathy
Services Manager
Catherine A. Aster
Here are the links to the two recorded demos from our Spotlight Community call on Friday, 11 September 2020.
Demo #1 - https://youtu.be/3Ih8bQVZ2ao
Demo by Claire DeMarco, Associate Director of Digital Strategies and Innovation at Harvard Library, of Harvard Digital Collections (HDC) 2.0. HDC is Harvard Library’s Blacklight search and discovery interface for more than 6 million publicly available items from their digital repository. The major features included in this latest release are associated with creating a Harvard Digital Collections account. Any user is free to sign up – no Harvard affiliation required. Signing up for an account allows users to create and manage lists of items as well as save dynamic searches.
Harvard Digital Collections is a user interface that pulls directly from LibraryCloud, Harvard's metadata hub. Built on the same infrastructure as CURIOSity Digital Collections, Harvard's Spotlight instance, a future goal is to use HDC's list building functionality to create Spotlight exhibits.
Demo #2 - https://youtu.be/g5qP9T-88_A
Demo by James
Creel, software developer at Texas A&M University Libraries, of SAGE (Solr AGgregation Engine), a Solr index aggregator that also provides a discovery layer. SAGE is currently undergoing deployment to provide access to digital assets stored in the Texas A&M
University Libraries digital repositories. It combines metadata from multiple sources including DSpace, Fedora and Avalon. The interface can be tailored for a particular collection which makes it a good complement to a Spotlight Exhibit. The UI supports
facets to allow for refining searches.
Catherine A. Aster
Here are the links to the three recorded demos from our Spotlight Community call on Friday, 12 February 2021.
Demo #1 - https://youtu.be/xnZv3atcGrw
Demo by Cathy Aster, Product & Service Manager, Stanford Libraries on the new browse group feature developed and released by the Stanford team this month, to Spotlight v3.0.0.rc4. Demo features the Digital Library of the Middle East - a standalone Spotlight instance, which is a partnership with the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Quatar National Library, and Stanford Libraries.
Demo #2 - https://youtu.be/-tF3DZzLsxw
Demo by Andria Olson, Assistant Map Librarian, Stanford Libraries featuring a discussion of the purpose and context of ArcGIS StoryMaps using the embed widget in two Spotlight at Stanford exhibits: Cartographic Symbologies and Mining Maps and Views.
Demo #3 - https://youtu.be/78RMKK--6TM
Demo by Melissa
Murphy, Reference Librarian & Heather Oswald, Manager of Public Services, Harvard, featuring CURIOSity exhibit The
South Sea Bubble, 1720 and embedded tools: Omeka Neatline and ArcGIS StoryMaps.