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Forums Tag: plugin http://omeka.org/forums/ Forums Tag: plugin en Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:49:00 +0000 DaveLester on "User Contributions" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-588 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:27:20 +0000 DaveLester 588@http://omeka.org/forums/ The contribution plugin was designed to accept specific item-types, which are hard coded into the plugin itself. The plugin's features reflect uses of the plugin to date, and there's currently no pre-packaged configuration file to customize that, and we have no plan to offer all DC metadata through this public-facing form. Luckily, Omeka is open source software and you can accomplish a lot by hacking some code. To accomplish what you're looking for, you'd have to modify the plugin, including the Contribution Controller and create a new partial for the item type. It's possible to add 'website' to the drop-down menu for the contribution plugin by following the example code from other item-types. And although the contribution plugin was not designed to allow users to enter all the associated metadata for items, it's once again possible to modify the plugin to do so. If you have specific questions about hacking the plugin I can help out -- best of luck. jpeg2000 on "User Contributions" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-586 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:34:54 +0000 jpeg2000 586@http://omeka.org/forums/ This might not be the appropriate place for this question/comment, but I'm wondering if it's possible to add "website" to the options that a user can contribute with all the associate metadata that an admin-created item would have. TomScheinfeldt on "Origami Plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/origami-plugin#post-416 Tue, 20 May 2008 12:32:47 +0000 TomScheinfeldt 416@http://omeka.org/forums/ bjstaab-- That's great! Congratulations. We would love to see the plugin released to the public. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help. We'd be more than happy, for instance, to add the plugin (or a link to it) to our downloads page, or to help with testing by mobilizing the Omeka community to try it out and provide feedback. Is Origami released under the GPL? Nice work. bjstaab on "Origami Plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/origami-plugin#post-415 Mon, 19 May 2008 16:18:07 +0000 bjstaab 415@http://omeka.org/forums/ I almost hate to keep resurrecting this zombie thread, but as of the last couple weeks, our (University of Wyoming Libraries) Omeka installation, with the <a href="http://opensource.at.northwestern.edu:8080/origami/at-projects/tiled-image-viewer">Origami viewer</a> plugin is <a href="http://melmoth.uwyo.edu/omeka/">live and accessible to the public</a> if anybody wants to take a look. We're actually still trying to decide what to do with it, so there isn't much content up right now. We're also checking with University legal about redistributing the plugin if anybody wants it. I don't imagine releasing it would be a problem, but you never know. Of course, the other issue is if it's even ready for release to the general public. It's got a couple rough edges I haven't gotten around to smoothing out yet. TomScheinfeldt on "User Contributions" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-348 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:49:24 +0000 TomScheinfeldt 348@http://omeka.org/forums/ Bethnicol-- Have you thought about adding reCAPTCHA (http://recaptcha.net/) to your contribution form to control spam? I don't think we want to bundle the software with the standard contribution program because not everyone will want to use it, but it should be fairly easy to add it to your site and should eliminate most of the spam. Tom bethnicol on "User Contributions" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-346 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:16:43 +0000 bethnicol 346@http://omeka.org/forums/ What worries me about the Contribution plugin (with no sign-in options) is spam. I run several blogs and wikis and the spam is a killer. I really like the Contribute idea (it would be very good for a shared/consortial project that I work with), but open contributions make my knees weak. bjstaab on "Origami Plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/origami-plugin#post-324 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:58:51 +0000 bjstaab 324@http://omeka.org/forums/ I've got an Origami plugin that basically works. Once I found paths.php, and that all the server and web accessable paths I needed were already prepared for me, it was fairly trivial to get basic functionality working. So thanks for that. A few issues remain: Right now my plugin attempts to prepare everything you upload, so now I'm wondering a little more about your suggestion to use a metafield to turn tiling on/off. I added a metafield via the admin interface, but ended up with a big textarea. A checkbox would be ideal, but even being able to control the size of the textarea would be good. Is there an option I'm missing, or is this level of control not there yet? What do you think about using some javascript to dynamically swap out the textarea with a checkbox? If I can't have a true bool, a tightly controlled vocabulary would be an excellent alternative. I'd like to avoid having to deal with Yes/yes/true/True/TRUE... etc. ucase()/lcase() would be an option too I suppose. What would be the "best practice" for storing the tiled images? Right now, I'm saving them in archive/origami so they live under the same directory as all the other images. But that would either require an Omeka administrator to create a directory with the correct permissions, or I could have the plugin check for and create the directory. But then you'd have to ensure php is allowed to create directories. Or, I could put the tiled images folder in my plugin's directory, so it's already there when the plugin is installed. Any opinions on which would be preferred? The tiling operation can take a while, so I'd almost like to do some kind of Ajax-y thing where the tiling operation could be backgrounded, and notify the uploader when it's done. Right now, when an image is uploaded, the page hangs until the tiler is done. I know what is happening but I can see how not having the page load as expected would be confusing to most people. JeremyBoggs on "User Contributions" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-317 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:59:24 +0000 JeremyBoggs 317@http://omeka.org/forums/ I forgot to mention that we have documentation on how to use the Contribution plugin with your themes here: <a href="http://omeka.org/codex/Contribution_plugin" rel="nofollow">http://omeka.org/codex/Contribution_plugin</a> JeremyBoggs on "User Contributions" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-316 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:57:49 +0000 JeremyBoggs 316@http://omeka.org/forums/ Hi pcoutas, I'll try to answer all of your questions: <blockquote>Ok, maybe I'm missing something, but it seems that the two available themes don't include a "contribution" page/system for visitors? Even with the plugin installed?</blockquote> The Contribution plugin does create a page for the contribution form, located at <a href="http://example.com/contribute/," rel="nofollow">http://example.com/contribute/,</a> where example.com is the path to your Omeka installation. You're right that Omeka currently requires some modifications to have your public theme To make a link to contribution form, I recommend opening up <code>common/header.php</code> in the theme your using, and adding the following inside the <code>nav()</code> function: <code>'Contribute' => uri('contribute')</code> So, if you're using the default theme, your entire nav() function should look like this: <code><?php echo nav(array('About' => uri('about'), 'Items' => uri('items'), 'Exhibits' => uri('exhibits'), 'Collections'=>uri('collections'), 'Contribute' = uri('contribute'))); ?></code> You can change 'Contribute' to whatever you want the text of the link to be in your main navigation. <blockquote>There's also no "login" so people with different access levels have access to different things on the frontend. Is this something I'd have to write myself?</blockquote> There is a login for the admin, at <a href="http://example.com/admin/users/login/," rel="nofollow">http://example.com/admin/users/login/,</a> where example.com is the path to your Omeka installation. Its currently not possible to have the login form on the public theme, or to have the public sign up for user accounts, so you or an administrator would need to create user accounts for other people. But we're in the process of making a plugin that I think will solve your problem. I hope this helps! Let us know if we can provide more assistance. pcoutas on "User Contributions" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/user-contributions#post-314 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:53:01 +0000 pcoutas 314@http://omeka.org/forums/ Ok, maybe I'm missing something, but it seems that the two available themes don't include a "contribution" page/system for visitors? Even with the plugin installed? There's also no "login" so people with different access levels have access to different things on the frontend. Is this something I'd have to write myself? The exemplar sites seem to have a way of doing this... I'd love to use Omeka for my research project - it seems to be exactly what I'm after in terms of simplicity of use. The backend is great... but the frontend seems like it would need a lot of website design work, for which I have very limited skills, and no funding to get someone to do it for me! Is there another template/theme "in the works" that we, as website-design-and-coding-limited-users could adapt to suit our needs, but which include the basic functionality for creating online, collaborative archives? jsafley on "Origami Plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/origami-plugin#post-263 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:05:33 +0000 jsafley 263@http://omeka.org/forums/ Hi bjstaab. An Origami plugin sounds fantastic. Considering it's technical requirements it also sounds quite ambitious and may prove to be challenging to implement. Instead of creating an Origami item type, have you considered adding a metafield that asks, "Prepare this image for use in the Origami tiled image viewer? Yes. No." Then, when displaying the item, instead of checking for a particular item type, simply check if the item has been prepared for Origami. This way any item type will have access to Origami if assigned the new metafield. There are many other considerations, as you mention, but I'll leave them to your own ingenuity. (Unless of course you have further questions!) As for your questions: The after_upload_file hook fires after the item has been given an ID, after the Dublin Core metadata has been saved to the database, and after the file has been successfully uploaded, but before the metatexts and tags have been saved to the database. In the case of the iPaper and PdfMeNot plugins, the filetype array is a simple check on the file extension. It's a low-tech method to determine file type, but it usually gets the job done. The Omeka team is excited about your Origami plugin and we're looking forward to seeing it in action. bjstaab on "Origami Plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/origami-plugin#post-259 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:04:29 +0000 bjstaab 259@http://omeka.org/forums/ Hi everybody, I've been trying to get a plugin written that would allow using Northwestern's Origami tiled image viewer with omeka. I've been borrowing heavily from existing plugins to get a general feel for what needs to be done. But I've got a few questions. But first, a few disorganized thoughts on how I imagine this could work. I've created an Origami Image item type in omeka admin. Origami expects to be given a directory containing the image tiles. So what I would like to do is just store that directory name in the database instead of a file name. Then, when an item of "Origami Image" type is requested the thumbnail would link to a Origami viewer page, possibly with the image directory passed as and GET query or something. As for getting the images up there, I'd like to be able to have the user upload a jpg, and run the tiler on the server. For launching Origami's tiler, I was looking at the after_file_upload hook. When exactly is that fired? Can I assume that when that hook is fired, the file has been uploaded successfully, but not inserted into the database yet? In the pdfmenot and ipaper plugins, they define a filetype array. Is that used to compare to the file extension? Or does it look at file's mime type or something. If it looks at the file extension, I was thinking I could just give the image tile directory an extension of .origami or something like that. I thought I had a couple more things I was stuck on (I should remember to write this stuff down as I think of it.) but that's all the questions I can think of now. JeremyBoggs on "Add your memory type plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/add-your-memory-type-plugin#post-37 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:55:46 +0000 JeremyBoggs 37@http://omeka.org/forums/ Hi Ben, You can add a thumbnail by using the following code in the items/browse.php page in your public theme. Somewhere inside your <code>foreach</code> loop, add: <code><?php square_thumbnail($item); ?></code> or, for regular thumbnails, add: <code><?php thumbnail($item); ?></code> where <code>$item</code> is the variable you've defined for each of your individual items in the <code>foreach</code> loop. niceoutfit on "Add your memory type plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/add-your-memory-type-plugin#post-29 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:33:35 +0000 niceoutfit 29@http://omeka.org/forums/ Sheila, The plug-in seems to be exactly what I would need. The one initial issue I have noticed is when you click on an "item" from the browse page it only shows the creator, item-type and date added but not the actual story/image/movie that you uploaded or added. Is this information something I will have to modify the source to get to display? It would also be nice to show a thumbnail image on the browse page for images or an icon denoting whether it's a movie or sound, etc. If this is something that has to modified on the source level, then that's fine...I can do that but it may be a nice out of the box option. Thanks for rolling this out so quickly! Well done. Ben SheilaBrennan on "Add your memory type plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/add-your-memory-type-plugin#post-28 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:35:09 +0000 SheilaBrennan 28@http://omeka.org/forums/ Ben, You can test out the collecting plug-in now in RC3. Please let us know what you think of its functionality for your project. Sheila SheilaBrennan on "Add your memory type plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/add-your-memory-type-plugin#post-19 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:42:54 +0000 SheilaBrennan 19@http://omeka.org/forums/ Ben, I think we are looking at February, which is when we plan to release a public beta. But if it is done sooner, we'll let you know. Sheila niceoutfit on "Add your memory type plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/add-your-memory-type-plugin#post-18 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:25:52 +0000 niceoutfit 18@http://omeka.org/forums/ Thanks for the quick reply Sheila! What kind of time frame are we looking at for the roll out of this plug in? Ben SheilaBrennan on "Add your memory type plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/add-your-memory-type-plugin#post-16 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:36:27 +0000 SheilaBrennan 16@http://omeka.org/forums/ Hi Ben, We don't have the contribution plug-in bundled with this RC, but it is far along in the development process. Even though we have used that plug-in for other projects, it runs on pre-Omeka systems so we have to make sure that everything works with Omeka's architecture. We'll let you know when it will be available. Sheila niceoutfit on "Add your memory type plugin" http://omeka.org/forums/topic/add-your-memory-type-plugin#post-15 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:05:46 +0000 niceoutfit 15@http://omeka.org/forums/ I was hoping to use Omeka as a way to involve community in submitting photos, stories etc. but after the initial install I did not see these options available. Are the contribute options a plug-in or are these things you developed yourself for these particular sites? If they are plug-ins, how can I get them to install?