Tufts University is in the process of migrating old single-site exhibits into Spotlight and generating new exhibits based on incoming materials.
Who's Who Data
- Who are the lead contact(s) this community can reach out to for questions?
- Travis Lilleberg - Software Engineer for Tisch Library
- How long have you been using Spotlight?
- A year and a half.
- How many people are on your Spotlight team?
- 4
- List or number of published Spotlight exhibits
- 10 - See the site link above.
- Have you used other digital collections platforms at your institution such as Omeka? If so, do you maintain more than one digital collection platform?
- Yes, we also have Omeka sites, though that's a different department.
- Have you used Spotlight to migrate older digital collections? If so, what were the lessons learned?
- Yes - TODO: I'll have to ask at our next meeting.
- What Spotlight features do you use?
- All of them I think?
- What features would you like the community to develop or plan to develop yourself? (Gathered here so this community can help developers across institutions with coordination)
- PDF Support is our next project after upgrading.
- What are your biggest barriers to using or expanding Spotlight use at your institution?
- Finding reasons for people beyond Archivists to use it. Students may be interested, but that would require more varied permissions and possibly a workflow system.
Notable Exhibits
Another Light on the Hill: Black Students at Tufts
The Magnet and the Iron: John Brown and George L. Stearns
Upcoming Events
None at the moment.
Notes, Comments, Observations, other information to share
We've connected Fedora 3 to Spotlight in the past and now we're migrating our Fedora-based resources to IIIF. Feel free to email Travis if you're interested in knowing more.
