The public API of the frontend of museum-digital has long been in use – for example for embedding objects directly from museum-digital in a given museum’s website. The API is stable and well-established. In musdb, our inventorization and museum management tool, however, the situation is more complicated. On the one hand, musdb is simply much …
Over the years, many presentations have been held about museum-digital. Articles have been written, and so have tutorials and other documents. To not let them fade into obscurity on the hard drives of their authors, we have now set up a document archive for such files: files.museum-digital.org. For the start we have compiled primarily presentations …
Until May 2022, the import of new data to museum-digital was always limited by the need to involve a member of the development team. Not least, because users had no option to upload potential import data in bulk. After many years, we have now finally opened up a way for users with access to musdb …
Many have seen it and the feedback has been consistently positive thus far: For many objects, museum-digital can now offer a revamped image viewer with improved features, such as a much better zoom function. This is made possible by the image viewer Mirador and our IIIF API. The fact that museum-digital offers an IIIF API …
Many imports of data confront us with Places like “Berlin ?” and times like “ca. 1328” konfrontiert. The import tool of museum-digital has been able to handle such entries for quite a time: “Berlin ?” is recognized to mean that the place is actually “Berlin”, but that the entry is not made with complete certainty. …
Over the last months, we have not been inactive in further developing museum-digital. We mainly worked to improve the legibility of our code under the hood – say, most changes will hopefully not be noticeable, but an improved speed of especially searches for objects may be a positive and visible effect. Either way, we have …
OpenSearch is an open web standard for describing search functions of web services. If a website supports it, the browser will take note and offer the user to install the website as a search machine. One especially nice aspect of it is, that OpenSearch can be implemented in just a few lines of code. It …
museum-digital has a lot of “hidden” features; hidden on purpose to not blur the users’ focus. One of these is the text blocks features in musdb, our inventorization and data input tool. Thus far, the text blocks had only been described in a presentation from mid-2018 (in German) – hence this blog post.
While most of the weekend had us preoccupied with doing a long-thought-over plan, we managed to squeeze in a minor improvement of the object selection mode in musdb: A “select all” option similar to how – for example – all files are selected in the Windows Explorer. To use it, press <CTRL+a> while in the …
The frontend of museum-digital is now available in Turkish. As a very nice side effect, this also unlocks the Turkish translations for keywords, and place and actor names we have been gathering for the last half a year. Image credits: Eva Gonzalès: „Girl Awakening“, Kunsthalle Bremen – Der Kunstverein in Bremen (CC BY-NC-SA)
A lighter is an object. With one, or maybe two perspectives – images. A book is an object. With potentially hundreds of pages – images. To simplify the management of objects with many images musdb offers the option to upload multiple images at a time. This option is however limited by global server settings like …
In response to suggestions of colleagues from Brandenburg, we have removed some restrictions from the “list results” function of musdb, which also provides the export option to spreadsheets. Since we were at it already, we improved the performance as well.
Since last weekend, the last publicly accessible page of museum-digital has been made fully multilingual: md:term. md:term is the central public frontend for our controlled vocabularies of actors, places, tags, and time terms. The probably most important part of md:term is its API, which is also – for example – used by the “graph navigation” …
