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Spotlight: A Self-Service Tool for Showcasing Digital Collections
Gary Geisler, Jessie Keck, Chris Beer & Stuart SnydmanStanford University
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Outline
• What is Spotlight?
• Why Spotlight?
• Key features and design process
• Demo
• Community-oriented development
• What’s next
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What is Spotlight?
Spotlight is software that sits on top of your digital repository and enables librarians,
curators, and other content experts to easily build feature-rich websites that showcase
collections and objects from the repository.
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Why Spotlight?
Depth and Complexity of Exposure
Simple News or Splash
Page
Feature-Rich Collection Site
LIBRARY SITE (CMS)
CUSTOM SITE DEVELOPMENT
Time and Resources
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY/LIBRARY CATALOG
Library Catalog Record
Institutional Repository
Record
Simple Collection/Exhibit Site
What are the options for highlighting, showcasing, or publicizing a collection?
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Why Spotlight?
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Why Spotlight?
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Why Spotlight?
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Why Spotlight?
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Why Spotlight?
Depth and Complexity of Exposure
Simple News or Splash
Page
Feature-Rich Collection Site
LIBRARY SITE (CMS)
CUSTOM SITE DEVELOPMENT
Time and Resources
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY/LIBRARY CATALOG
Library Catalog Record
Institutional Repository
Record
Simple Collection/Exhibit Site
What are the options for highlighting, showcasing, or publicizing a collection?
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Why Spotlight?
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Why Spotlight?
Revs Bassi-Veratti FRDA200,000+ image collection with
image annotation and other community features
672 item archive digitized, tagged, and integrated with an interactive version of the archive finding aid
Combines two foundational research sources: the Archives
Parlementaires and 25,000 images from the BnF
Dedicated collection sites
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Why Spotlight?
Depth and Complexity of Exposure
Simple News or Splash
Page
Feature-Rich Collection Site
LIBRARY SITE (CMS)
CUSTOM SITE DEVELOPMENT
Time and Resources
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY/LIBRARY CATALOG
Library Catalog Record
Institutional Repository
Record
Simple Collection/Exhibit Site
What are the options for highlighting, showcasing, or publicizing a collection?
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Why Spotlight?
Depth and Complexity of Exposure
Simple News or Splash
Page
Spotlight Exhibit Site
Feature-Rich Collection Site
LIBRARY SITE (CMS)
SELF-SERVICE EXHIBIT CREATION TOOL
CUSTOM SITE DEVELOPMENT
Time and Resources
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY/LIBRARY CATALOG
Library Catalog Record
Institutional Repository
Record
Simple Collection/Exhibit Site
What are the options for highlighting, showcasing, or publicizing a collection?
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Why Spotlight?
Full-featured • Focused website with robust features for highlighting collections
Self-service • Enables curators and librarians to produce high quality exhibits without
programming
Integrated • Interoperates with existing discovery systems and repository infrastructure
Flexible • Enables curators to customize exhibit facets, metadata, feature pages,
visual themes, menu labels, etc.
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Design Process
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User Personas
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User Personas
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Requirements Prioritization
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Requirements Prioritization
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Wireframes
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Development Approach
Spotlight extends Blacklight
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Development Approach
Spotlight extends Blacklight
Spotlight gemBlacklight
Widgets
Rails app
App database
1 Base Rails app 2 App with app-
specific Solr index
3 App with default
Exhibits components
Admin configuration
4 Exhibit app with
customized settings
Curatorediting
5 Exhibit app with
curated content
Field and feature
customizationPage creation End-user
features
Exhibit website
6 Exhibit website
made public
Solr
User management Item discovery
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Demo - Tour of Completed Exhibit
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Demo - How to Create an Exhibit
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Spotlight Roadmap
Phase 2 development starts soon
• Guided paths through feature pages
• Support for more content types
• Selection and indexing tools
• Visual theming
• Repository integration
More exhibits at Stanford
More adopters
More contributors
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Community-Focused Agile Development
Enable local institution customization and community contributions
• Widget framework, visual themes (soon)
Spotlight gemBlacklight
Widgets
Rails app
App database
1 Base Rails app 2 App with app-
specific Solr index
3 App with default
Exhibits components
Admin configuration
4 Exhibit app with
customized settings
Curatorediting
5 Exhibit app with
curated content
Field and feature
customizationPage creation End-user
features
Exhibit website
6 Exhibit website
made public
Solr
User management Item discovery
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Community-Focused Agile Development
Code is publicly-available on Github
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Community-Focused Agile Development
Detailed release notes Work tickets
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Interested?
Maps of Africa exhibithttps://exhibits.stanford.edu
Project code repositoryhttps://github.com/sul-dlss/spotlight
More about Blacklighthttp://projectblacklight.org
Spotlight readme on Github
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Why Not Just Use Omeka?
Integrating with Blacklight provides• More robust discovery environment
• More focus on the object versus the narrative
• Better integration with Hydra applications
• Better leverage of developer skills (keep focus on Ruby, not PHP)