Imeji Functionalities

This page gives a short overview of all Imeji solution functionalities.
The detailed functional Specifications can be found here.

Standard User Workflow

Upload content

1. Creation of a collection with collection metadata
2. Assignment of a metadata profile to the collection
   • via using an already defined profile as template
   • via creating a new profile
3. Upload of pictures to the collection
   • via selecting one or several single picture
   • via selecting one zip file [Not implemented yet]
   • via selecting one folder
4. Assignment of metadata to pictures
   • Automatic extraction and assignment of technical metadata
   • Defining of a picture set for batch editing of descriptive metadata via filtering and sorting mechanism
   • Editing of the descriptive metadata of a single picture
5. Releasing the whole collection (make it visible for all users)

Collection Management

Definition A Collection has exactly one metadata profile The relation between collection and metadata profile is 1-1 (that means neither a collection nor a metadata profile can exist without the other) A Collection has exactly one creator, but can have more editors (people who are allowed to assign metadata values and upload pictures) --> the creator automatically has the editor role for his collection A collection has one entry point Create/edit collection (edit the metadata values) Delete/release/discard collection Display of collections List of all published collections together with the most relevant metadata values

Metadata Profile Management

Definition A metadata profile always belongs to a collection The user either can create a new metadata profile for a new collection or use an already available one as template. Edit metadata profile Each metadata consists of one type (a list with several types will be provided, e.g. date, geonames, string, integer, cone-person, tag) one or several labels a language tag for each label a menu to select cardinality (unique, multiple) [Not implemented yet] a menu to select the obligation (mandatory/optional) (optional) the possibility to define a small controlled vocabulary based on free text fields (strings) Version control will not be provided for the MD profile Therefore a MD profile will be unique for each collection, no possibility to use it for more than one collection MD profiles do not have an own release workflow as they are always connected to one collection and its workflow

Upload

Picture upload Web upload (upload images for one collection) via selecting one or several pictures [Not implemented yet] via selecting a zip [Not implemented yet] Desktop upload (upload images for one collection --> for each collection a Imeji Desktop box has to be created) Upload all images dragged and dropped into Imeji Desktop box (a file scan during upload will not be possible for this sort of upload) upload pictures to the local Imeji DropBox and later to Imeji repository inform the user when the images are uploaded Imeji repository together with a report (will be within the ingest workspace) Create thumbnails and web resolution and upload all 3 resolutions Extract technical metadata (IPTC [1]) Technical md will be displayed only in xml (via link) [Not implemented yet] Scan filename (this can be part of the web upload or triggered separately after the upload) Define pattern via analyzing one selected filename: how are the different md values in the filename separated (e.g. via ",") Define parsing: which value should be mapped to which metadata from the schema Update items with populated md-record [Not implemented yet] Define visibility, only possible for the whole import, not for individual pictures; but can be changed later manually for each picture

Metadata Editing

Batch editing (only possible for pictures within the same collection) Select images Edit metadata values Choose metadata element Define a new value for all selected pictures and decide whether this value should only be added to the pictures when the value there is still empty should overwrite all already available values add a new value to all images (only possible when the selected metadata element can occur multiple) Define a new value for each selected picture seperately Single editing

Browsing

	Browse collections (collection portal: overview about all available collections) View images within one collection Filter images through facets based on the corresponding metadata profile Browse albums Browse images Filter images through general facets Navigate through images (paginator with additionally 'go to' functionality) View picture details

Search

Simple search: general free text search (any metadata value, either in images, collections, or [not implemented yet] albums) Advanced Search For pictures (metadata values) Select a collection and then a metadata element within this collection Combine as many collections and metadata elements as you want either with AND, OR, or NOT [Not implemented yet] For collections (e.g. which collection has a metadata field called temperature); evtl. some lists will be offered to the user to choose between the available metadata labels [Not implemented yet] For albums (album metadata)

Albums

	Creation and editing of private albums Adding pictures to an album via selecting one albums as 'active' album when browsing through the pictures Remove pictures from an album Deletion of a private album with all its content Publishing and discarding of an album [Not implemented yet] Export the pictures of an album

Further Features

	Blog integration on the start page of Imeji User management

Metadata

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