Thanks for looking into this Dan. Two thoughts where other volunteers
on this list might help out:
USER GUIDE - EXAMPLE FILE NAME FORMATS
The user guide would really benefit from example formats for file
names used in our projects. I tend to use: "File:<friendly description
name up to 200 characters> <project abbreviation><unique identifier
from GLAM source>.<extension>" with the project abbreviations normally
being 3 or 4 letters (NARA, BL, NYPL) and the unique ID mostly being a
string of numbers unique to the image/photograph, though this may be
more complex for IDs relating to an artefact with multiple images.
XML GWT VALIDATOR
Though the GWT recommends a standard xml validator, it would be great
if we had a "user hackable" xml/ingestion validator of our own. This
could include odd Commons specific disallowed characters in file names
as well as checking field lengths and highlighting missing fields
depending on the template chosen.
PS email from your Yahoo address keeps ending up in my gmail spam
folder and I keep on marking it as 'not spam'. :-)
Fae
On 07/05/2014, dan entous <d_entous(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
title truncation
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i can adjust the max title length to 240, but will subtract the mediafile’s
extension from the total title length, and then truncate the title based on
that evaluation; e.g., .tiff is 5 bytes, .jpg is 4 bytes. i’ll add this to
the list of items i hope to cover during the hackathon.
title building
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we also have an issue with how the title is built. currently, the values
mapped to the template’s title parameter and title identifier are used to
create the title. james healed ran into an issue when he was uploading some
images from the british library where he didn’t understand this building
process and was at first confused. he ended up creating one “special” field
in the metadata that contained the _unique_ title he wanted to use. he then
mapped that special, unique title to the title identifier parameter without
mapping anything to the template title parameter. i suggest that we rename
the gwtoolset title identifier parameter to gwtoolset-title and that we
recommend that uploaders mimc what james did.
with kind regards,
dan
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