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 …
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 …
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.
