Dataset Metadata - Producer and Distributor Logos URL + Logo URL Fields

[eaquigley]

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Author Name: Mike Heppler (@mheppler)
Original Redmine Issue: 3621, https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3621
Original Date: 2014-03-04
Original Assignee: Kevin Condon

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Due to the 3.x way of saving logo URLs for the Contributor (was Distributor and Producer fields in 3.x), in the long term we can end up with broken image links when the image file link changes or the server that we're pointing to is down.

To avoid this in 4.0, test out removing Contributor Logo URL and URL from the UI to test out if users will miss it or not during beta. Will review after Beta to see if they should be added back. If added back we should consider allowing the data creator to upload a logo, via popup/image upload, that we will store the file in our database/server.

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Related issue(s): #485
Redmine related issue(s): 3900

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[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Eleni Castro (@posixeleni)
Original Date: 2014-04-07T15:15:53Z

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Propose removing both Logo URL and URL since these can easily go out of date (broken images and links) and do not seemingly offer any additional value for dataset discovery and reuse. Removed them from the general.tsv for now unless there is a strong opinion that these two elements should be re-added.

[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Eleni Castro (@posixeleni)
Original Date: 2014-04-21T05:51:08Z

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Merce suggested I get feedback from ODUM. Awaiting reply from ODUM and also consulted Libbie from Data-PASS / UCLA Dataverse.

[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Eleni Castro (@posixeleni)
Original Date: 2014-05-02T20:05:53Z

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See Issue #3900

[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Kevin Condon (@kcondon)
Original Date: 2014-05-06T15:47:17Z

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Tested on 5/6

Fields are removed and remaining fields working fine.

Closing ticket

[eaquigley]

Reopening after a discussion with @posixeleni

[posixeleni]

@eaquigley & @mheppler We will need to review if and how we can properly support Distributor and Producer to have a URL and possibly Logo URL in the Citation Metadata Block. For the URL to the Distributor or Producer's website ideally we would have some way to check periodically to make sure the URLs are still working. For the long term this may not be sustainable since websites dont just change URLs but they come and go without any warning. For any URL that no longer worked would we just automatically remove them ? Or would we contact people to see if they can give us an active URL?

[mheppler]

My suggestion would be:

• Have a simple file upload for logos (http://www.primefaces.org/showcase/ui/file/upload/basic.xhtml)
• For broken URLs, I would think we could run some site wide script that checks for broken URLs everywhere, and we can manually check that report to see what is bad.
• Maybe we can have some templated email we manually send them asking them to update their metadata. I don't know how automated we need to/should have for this.
• Here are some mentions because I'm told all the kids are doing it now: @eaquigley @posixeleni @pdurbin @scolapasta

[posixeleni]

@mheppler @eaquigley
Sonia also mentioned to me that when we migrate the old logos and distributor name over we will need to change the ones that say IQSS Dataverse to dataverse.org or whatever the final name for our installation at Harvard will be.

[eaquigley]

Pushing to Beta 5 since we haven't reached a decision on this and it probably won't get into Beta 4.

[eaquigley]

@mheppler can you make a decision based off the suggestions you listed above so we can get this working? thanks!

[scolapasta]

Passing to @posixeleni to set values in displayFormat in db for these (per #1319).

[posixeleni]

Per #1309 I have enabled this in the displayFormat field in the db. However, will need @mheppler to help me with the CSS styling to make these logos display in a uniform size. A more robust solution will be needed after 4.0 to look into implementing a feature for users to upload their distributor or producer logos using a form within the dataset.

[mheppler]

Added Bootstrap style class to metadata logo image HTML to fix width issues with really large images. [ref 47f6d6d]

[mheppler]

Added CSS styling to limit the height (40px) and width (180px) of logo images in the metadata fields, similarly to how it was done in 3.6.

[kcondon]

Works, closing