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- Institution
- Who are the lead contact(s) this community can reach out to for questions?
- Service Community: Cathy Aster (caster at stanford dot edu)
- Development: Mark Matienzo (matienzo at stanford dot edu)
- How long have you been using Spotlight?
- Since 2014
- How many people are on your Spotlight team?
- Service team: Service manager + 4-5 members from across Stanford Libraries
- Development team: Varies. For active Spotlight at Stanford work cycles, we typically have 1 product owner (not a developer), 1 Scrum master (often not Technical lead (also a developer on the team), 1 UI/UX staff, 3 -6 developers
- List or number of published Spotlight exhibits
- As of April 2019March 2021, 80 118 published exhibits
- Have you used other digital collections platforms at your institution such as Omeka? If so, do you maintain more than one digital collection platform?
- We have not used Omeka. We used to have a custom-built, in-house platform for digital collections. It was retired in 2016-17. After January 2019, we will We only have 3 1 stand-alone digital collection sites site remaining (running on Blacklight/Solr), and we anticipate these this will eventually be migrated to our Spotlight instance.
- Have you used Spotlight to migrate older digital collections? If so, what were the lessons learned?
- Yes. More information on this coming.
- What Spotlight features do you use?
- All.
- 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)
- Enhancements/improvements to geoblacklight plugin.
- Improved support for IIIF manifest upload.
- What are your biggest barriers to using or expanding Spotlight use at your institution?
- More information on this forthcomingWe have great adoption of Spotlight at Stanford. Barriers fall more into wish list categories; "I would use Spotlight if it were more customizable to my specific needs." Those needs include: showcasing of metadata only; tools for image comparisons, and more.
Notable Exhibits
- Exhibits Documentation - our comprehensive exhibit on exhibits
- Bilingual exhibits
- Mario Paci (English-Chinese)
- French Revolution Images (English-French)
- Garcia-Sampedro Piano Roll Collection (English-Spanish)
- Say Their Names
- Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination
- Research from Stanford University
- The First Transcontinental Railroad
- Images of Rome
- The Bob Fitch Photography Archive
- Andy Warhol Photography Archive
- Research from Stanford University
- Mario Paci (English-Chinese)Archive
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