Imeji Functionalities

This page gives a short overview of all imeji 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 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 A collection has exactly one creator, but can have multiple 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) one or several labels a language tag for each label a menu to select cardinality (unique, multiple) (optional) the possibility to define a small controlled vocabulary based on free text fields (strings) Version control will not be provided for the metadata profile Therefore a metadata profile will be unique for each collection, no possibility to use it for more than one collection metadata profiles do not have an own release work flow as they inherit the collections work flow

Upload

	Picture upload Web upload (upload images for one collection) Easy Drag&Drop, via selecting one or several pictures Create thumbnails and web resolution and upload all 3 resolutions Extract technical metadata (IIO (java) output) Technical metadata will be displayed only in xml (via link)

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 times) Define a new value for each selected picture separately 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 or collections) Advanced Search For pictures (metadata values) Select a collection and then a metadata element within this collection Combine as many collections and metadata elements with boolean operators

Albums

	Creation and editing of private albums Adding pictures to an album via selecting an album as 'active' album when browsing through the pictures Remove pictures from an album Deletion of a private albums with all its content Publishing and discarding of an album

Further Features

	Blog integration on the start page of imeji User management