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Spotlight at Stanford

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This is the branded Spotlight deployment at Stanford, that is, Stanford has elected to call this Spotlight deployment "Spotlight at Stanford".  You can make this whatever you like.  Also, if you have multiple sites, such as one for each special library,  you can add them in any order or style you like.

How Spotlight at Stanford Differs from the Spotlight Codebase

Who's Who Data

  • Institution
  • Who are the lead contact(s) this community can reach out to for questions?
    • Service Community: Cathy Aster (caster at stanford dot edu)
    • Development: Mark Matienzo (matienzo at stanford dot edu)
  • How long have you been using Spotlight?
    • Since 2014
  • How many people are on your Spotlight team?
    • Service team: Service manager + 4-5 members from across Stanford Libraries
    • Development team: Varies. For active Spotlight at Stanford work cycles, we typically have 1 product owner (not a developer),  1 Technical lead (also a developer on the team), 1 UI/UX staff, 3 developers
  • List or number of published Spotlight exhibits
    • As of March 2021, 118 published exhibits
  • Have you used other digital collections platforms at your institution such as Omeka? If so, do you maintain more than one digital collection platform?
    • We have not used Omeka. We used to have a custom-built, in-house platform for digital collections. It was retired in 2016-17. We only have 1 stand-alone digital collection site remaining (running on Blacklight/Solr), and we anticipate this will eventually be migrated to our Spotlight instance.
  • Have you used Spotlight to migrate older digital collections? If so, what were the lessons learned?
    • Yes.
  • What Spotlight features do you use?
    • All.
  • What features would you like the community to develop or plan to develop yourself? (Gathered here so this community can help developers across institutions with coordination)
    • Enhancements/improvements to geoblacklight plugin. 
    • Improved support for IIIF manifest upload.
  • What are your biggest barriers to using or expanding Spotlight use at your institution?
  • We have great adoption of Spotlight at Stanford. Barriers fall more into wish list categories; "I would use Spotlight if it were more customizable to my specific needs." Those needs include: showcasing of metadata only; tools for image comparisons, and more.

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