Minimal Friction, Maximal Use: Optimizing Open Access Image Delivery In presentation order: Amy Heibel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art John ffrench, Yale University Art Gallery Alan Newman, National Gallery of Art Cathryn Goodwin, Princeton University Art Museum Rob Lanceeld, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University Stanley Smith, J. Paul Getty Museum James Shulman, Artstor MCN 2013, Montreal, 21 November 2013
MCN 2013: Open Access Image Delivery at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
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Minimal Friction, Maximal Use: Optimizing Open Access Image Delivery
In presentation order:
Amy Heibel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art John ffrench, Yale University Art Gallery Alan Newman, National Gallery of Art Cathryn Goodwin, Princeton University Art Museum Rob Lance"eld, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University Stanley Smith, J. Paul Getty Museum
James Shulman, Artstor
MCN 2013, Montreal, 21 November 2013
Minimal Friction, Maximal Use: Optimizing Open Access Image Delivery
Open Access Image Delivery at the
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Rob Lance!eld Manager of Museum Information Services Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University @roblance!eld
MCN 2013 Museum Computer Network
Montreal 21 November 2013
DAC Open Access Images repository (just a world-
readable Xythos directory)
You are here.
Web Browser
EmbARK Web Kiosk
Apache
DAC Collection Searchdac-collection.wesleyan.edu
4D Web Server
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Apache Rewrite Rule tocatch and rewrite URL
The main DAC web spacewww.wesleyan.edu/dac
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
University Content Management Server
(a Xythos instance namedwesfiles.wesleyan.edu)
Desktop (or Downloads, etc.)
Click an image link.
Accept and Translate requested URL to the image’s live path in current architecture (rewrite as an abstraction layer basically transparent to users).
Provide a link from DAC Collection Search to canonical image URL in the main DAC web space, for long-term
durability across future systems.
Serve requested image directly to the user’s desktop via web browser download, sourced from translated
path on content management server.
Get the image.
What three machines do:Provide a link,
Accept a request,Translate its URL,Serve the image.
What you can do uponfinding a desired image:
Click an image link.Get the image.
DAC Open Access Images: sketch of delivery implementation at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Discovery happensover here, too.
Collection Search page for an object with OA image
Minimal Friction, Maximal Use. MCN 2013, Montreal, November 21, 2013.Rob Lancefield, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. @roblancefield
DAC Open Access Images repository (just a world-
readable Xythos directory)
You are here.
Web Browser
EmbARK Web Kiosk
Apache
DAC Collection Searchdac-collection.wesleyan.edu
4D Web Server
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Apache Rewrite Rule tocatch and rewrite URL
The main DAC web spacewww.wesleyan.edu/dac
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
University Content Management Server
(a Xythos instance namedwesfiles.wesleyan.edu)
Desktop (or Downloads, etc.)
Click an image link.
Accept and Translate requested URL to the image’s live path in current architecture (rewrite as an abstraction layer basically transparent to users).
Provide a link from DAC Collection Search to canonical image URL in the main DAC web space, for long-term
durability across future systems.
Serve requested image directly to the user’s desktop via web browser download, sourced from translated
path on content management server.
Get the image.
What three machines do:Provide a link,
Accept a request,Translate its URL,Serve the image.
What you can do uponfinding a desired image:
Click an image link.Get the image.
DAC Open Access Images: sketch of delivery implementation at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Discovery happensover here, too.
Collection Search page for an object with OA image
Minimal Friction, Maximal Use. MCN 2013, Montreal, November 21, 2013.Rob Lancefield, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. @roblancefield
DAC Open Access Images repository (just a world-
readable Xythos directory)
You are here.
Web Browser
EmbARK Web Kiosk
Apache
DAC Collection Searchdac-collection.wesleyan.edu
4D Web Server
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Apache Rewrite Rule tocatch and rewrite URL
The main DAC web spacewww.wesleyan.edu/dac
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
University Content Management Server
(a Xythos instance namedwesfiles.wesleyan.edu)
Desktop (or Downloads, etc.)
Click an image link.
Accept and Translate requested URL to the image’s live path in current architecture (rewrite as an abstraction layer basically transparent to users).
Provide a link from DAC Collection Search to canonical image URL in the main DAC web space, for long-term
durability across future systems.
Serve requested image directly to the user’s desktop via web browser download, sourced from translated
path on content management server.
Get the image.
What three machines do:Provide a link,
Accept a request,Translate its URL,Serve the image.
What you can do uponfinding a desired image:
Click an image link.Get the image.
DAC Open Access Images: sketch of delivery implementation at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Discovery happensover here, too.
Collection Search page for an object with OA image
Minimal Friction, Maximal Use. MCN 2013, Montreal, November 21, 2013.Rob Lancefield, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. @roblancefield
DAC Open Access Images repository (just a world-
readable Xythos directory)
You are here.
Web Browser
EmbARK Web Kiosk
Apache
DAC Collection Searchdac-collection.wesleyan.edu
4D Web Server
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Apache Rewrite Rule tocatch and rewrite URL
The main DAC web spacewww.wesleyan.edu/dac
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Pre-existing Virtual Machine in University
ITS Data Center
University Content Management Server
(a Xythos instance namedwesfiles.wesleyan.edu)
Desktop (or Downloads, etc.)
Click an image link.
Accept and Translate requested URL to the image’s live path in current architecture (rewrite as an abstraction layer basically transparent to users).
Provide a link from DAC Collection Search to canonical image URL in the main DAC web space, for long-term
durability across future systems.
Serve requested image directly to the user’s desktop via web browser download, sourced from translated
path on content management server.
Get the image.
What three machines do:Provide a link,
Accept a request,Translate its URL,Serve the image.
What you can do uponfinding a desired image:
Click an image link.Get the image.
DAC Open Access Images: sketch of delivery implementation at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Discovery happensover here, too.
Collection Search page for an object with OA image
Minimal Friction, Maximal Use. MCN 2013, Montreal, November 21, 2013.Rob Lancefield, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. @roblancefield
Minimal Friction, Maximal Use: Optimizing Open Access Image Delivery
Open Access Image Delivery at the
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Rob Lance!eld Manager of Museum Information Services Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University @roblance!eld
MCN 2013 Museum Computer Network
Montreal 21 November 2013
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