Digital Library Management

Hey, I’m Daksh Paleria participating in Google Summer of Code 2021 with CDLI. I’ve been accepted for the project Digital Library Management, the project is about preparing a dashboard that can show an admin the visual assets of the digital library for each artifact but also add, edit, delete, images using our archival images serve as a source of better quality images to prepare their web counterpart. Access to images should also be managed there (some images are not public).

Project: GSoC’21

Proposal: Link

Contributions: Link

Work Status: Link

Mentor: Jacob L. Dahl

GSoC Final Report & Summary.

Getting selected as a student developer at CDLI under Google Summer Of Code has been an absolute pleasure. These three months have been exciting, challeging and have been a great journey of learning new things that came through.

What Was Done

During these three months I have completed all the essential objectives which includes

#	Objectives	PR/Commit/Link	Associated Deliverables	Status
1	Design Pages	Link	Design the pages for viewing archival images, selecting multiple artifacts at a time, upload archival images #609	Completed
2	Prepare Images Table	Link	Storing information regarding images in our table #87	Completed
3	Work Around Web Images	!355, !377	Allowing the admins to work around the web images by giving them the option to add, edit, delete #87	Completed
4	Python Script	–	A python script to extarct information and dump them in CSV. #87	Completed
5	Testing Functionalities	–	Testing fucntionalities of the web images.	Completed

What Is Left

Dealing with arcival images is the task which is now on my to-do list. We have to work around the conversion algorithm which can help us in displaying the images to admin on the framework and then allow them to make changes on it.

Objectives and Deliverables

–> Completed Tasks –> Ongoing Tasks

#	Objectives	Associated Deliverables	issue(s)
1	Design Pages	Design the pages for viewing archival images, selecting multiple artifacts at a time, upload archival images	#609
2	Prepare Image Table	Storing information regarding images in our table	#87
3	Work Around Web Images	Allowing the admins to work around the web images by giving them the option to add, edit, delete	#87
4	Python Script to store details	A python script to extarct information and dump them in CSV.	#87
5	Dealing with Archival Images	Adding the functionality to convert, view and peform operations on archival images.	#87

Additional Objectives

#	Objectives	Associated Deliverables	issue(s)
1	CMD Script	CMD Script to upload archival images from web server to wasabi server. Script should handle adding, renaming files on wasabi and deleting.	-

Timeline

Week	Objectives	Deliverables	issue(s)
1	Designing the Pages	Get reviews from mentors regarding the design of pages and formalize the workflow	#609
2	Preparing Image Table	Raise an issue to get review regarding the image table, prepare a script to populate the tables intially	#87
3	Installation of Conversion Algorithm	Installing the library and try to add them in nginx or cake container	#87
4	Generating Standard Templates	Preparing standard templates, controllers for providing intial functionalities. Documetation of the work done till now	#87
5	Preparing Custom Controllers	Preparing custom controllers for conversion, viewing of archival images	#87
6	Editing Current Templates	Editing current Artifact templates for adding a new tab to view Archival Image	#87
7	Using Archival Images	Testing conversion algorithm on archival iamges to check whether the thumbnails are of required specifiction	#586
8	Working for Non Associated Images & View Templates for Non Associated Images	Developing controllers, templates for accessing Non Associated Images. Creating view templates for viewing non associated archival images, documenting the work done till now.	#608
9	Allowing Admins to Change type of Image	Developing the functionality to allow admins change the type of image.	#87
10	Document, test and further feature addons	Documenting the work, working around the additionl Objectives.	-