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Joseph Urban Project
Proposed Updates & Enhancements


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 ID
Status
Description
20111109-01 New Metadata error: One of the models that was imaged back during the Joseph Urban project was a mistake. It's not actually by Urban at all, and it showed up during the recent Brander Matthews stage model imaging.
The images of this model need to be removed from the Urban website.
They are at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/html/it-111679.html
20111108-01 New Metadata omission: QTVR movies dropped from the interface on regeneration: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/qtvr/
They had been manually inserted on the respective gallery pages. Need to be included in underlying metadata.
20060627-01 New Error:  In item views, the Production/Project displayed is always "Unidentified" even when from a known production.   See e.g.,
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/html/it-112158.html
20050308-03 New Database:   Modify the Access database to allow:
  • incorporation of the series & project-level descriptions present in the finding aid
20050308-04 New Database:   Modify the Access database to allow:
  • coded versions of the production dates (e.g., 19290301)
20050308-05 New Database:   Modify the Access database to allow:
  • codes for material type (e.g., set model, drawing, photograph, sketch, technical drawing, program, libretto).   Create program to generate set model and other listings automatically.
20050308-06 New Database:  
  • Hire student to key in data in new fields from 20050308-03 to 05.  Regenerate Web pages and full finding aids
20050308-07 New Interface: Create presentation for Conservation slide show under "About".
20050308-08 New Interface:  Create value added pages showing multiple images of sketch, to design, to set photo, to set model?
20050308-09 New Interface:  Provide "next / previous image" function at the item level through the whole collection
20050308-10 New Interface:  Create specific gallery & set model page for "Walkure" under "Undated/Unproduced"; currently generated manually
20050308-11 New Interface:  Segregate & sort Untitled, Undated & Unidentified material at end of alphabetic list; currently sorted manually


MISC. COMPLETED
20050308-02
3/2005
Interface: "item" and "gallery" display:  Revise to provide more CU identity, user-friendly navigation, and links to reproduction information; see draft at: draft, 3/2005

3/2/2005 -- COMPLETED
       1.

Add row for blue horizontal bar under banner on sub-type pages as indicated below. (Also add missing </table> tag.)

  2. Please insert single space after "Item:" label & before Item text, in item-type displays, e.g.,

 
          
  3.

Changes to Sub-type pages:
(cf: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/new/sub-625a.html

a) Add "View all images" link after name of production, e.g.,

3/1/2005 -- COMPLETED
     
  1.

Substitute the manually edited files below for production files of the same name.  These files now include links to the Quicktime VR imaging of the set models. When we begin adding more image content to the source Urban Access db, we need to insert image filenames for these QTVR files.

  • /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/html_new/it-111611.html
  • /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/html_new/it-111608.html
  • /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/html_new/it-111610.html
  • /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/html_new/it-111625.html
  • /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/html_new/it-111501.html
  • /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/html_new/it-111153.html

  2.

Change the New York series link in the navigation block on all pages where it appears as indicated below.. (A new menu page has been created for the New York Series; the current link is broken.)

 

Items 3-6:  "head block" should look like this on all gallery and item records:
   

<head>
<title>[Production/Project], [Folder], [Item] </title>
<script language="JavaScript" src="/cu/lweb/scripts/lweb.general.js" type="text/javascript">
<!--
// -->
</script>
<link href="/cu/lweb/stylesheets/urban.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>

Specifically:

  3. Delete header SSI: <!--#include virtual="/cu/lweb/stylesheets/lweb_browserdetect.html"-->
  4. Delete incorrect CSS statements:
<link href="/cu/lweb/stylesheets/lweb.html" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 
<link href="/cu/lweb/stylesheets/lweb_ie.html" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Instead insert:

<link href="/cu/lweb/stylesheets/urban.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
  5.

Delete the following comment & SSI:

<!--SSI for providing links to external resources such as CSS, JavaScript, etc.-->
<!--#include virtual="/cu/lweb/includes/html.head.general.html"-->

Instead insert:

<script language="JavaScript" src="/cu/lweb/scripts/lweb.general.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>

 
6.

Make sure to include <head> </head> tags.


  7.

On all item-type pages please add the root relative path:

i.e., /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/

to 'breadcrumb" navigation links at top

  8.

Remove the colspan="5" attribute/value from the center block of all gallery and item pages, e.g.,

<tr>
<td colspan="5" bgcolor="#666666">
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" ...

becomes

<tr>
<td bgcolor="#666666">
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" ...


  9.

On all the "sub-" pages, change top-of-page link for Urban home page to root relative:

e.g.,

<div align="right"><a href="index.html" class="a_nounderline">
<span class="banner18px">Joseph Urban Papers 1893-1998</span>
<br><span class="banner14px">New York Series</span></a></div>

change link to:  "/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/"

  10.

On all the "sub-" pages, include LWEB footer.

Sample page at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/new/sub-622.html
  11. Add folder & item-level captions to gallery displays
  12.

Fix incorrect Subseries name in links from finding aid view, e.g.,
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/html/it-110198.html

[Subseries should be "Theater, 1914-1933" not "Garden of Paradise, November 28, 1914"


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