A customer had an existing Drupal powered Intranet site. They were excited to tell us about a project they were building for a collaborative workspace for a group of researchers that was customized to manage Karyotyping images. The collaborative workspace would tie together a number of collaboration tools they already had in use - Drupal, Jumper 2.0, and DSpace.
A researcher would create an image that needed to be stored in Dspace. The image would be uploaded to the DSpace repository. The workflow they were building would manage this process via scripts. The Drupal search module was customized to let users search for specific image thumbnails on the Intranet site. Drupal is chiefly focused on handling HTML content, so Gallery2 was installed to generate thumbnails on a preview page and extract embedded metadata.
Drupal would push the image to the DSpace repository and store the metadata and thumbnails in the Gallery. When images are recorded, Drupal offers users the option to include additional related tag objects created in Jumper 2.0. When users record a new image they have an option to tag the document or image using the Jumper 2.0 tag engine. The image is then assigned a unique identifier in the repository and published in a news feed.
The new image is picked up via the published feed and stored in the Gallery module of the research project's Drupal site. Included in the feed are the image, metadata (including the unique identifier), tag profile with pointers to any related objects. Another researcher learns that the new image is available to examine. A module was written to provide a workflow for the feeds so that the new items showed up in a block in "my workspace," and an was email generated by the notify module. Other researchers could click on a reference link to view the full res image, compare the image in the Gallery module to other images, they could click on reference links to related papers published in Connotea, they could read and edit the tag profile with new annotations, comments, or notes to build more knowledge around the image.
Using Jumper 2.0 tagging there is now a rich set of metadata associated with the image. The new metadata was published as feeds and picked up for inclusion in the DSpace repository housing the original archived image. This publishing cycle was ongoing for the life of a specific research project. The rich metadata that Jumper delivers provided the context, meaning and value to the image that was missing in traditional metadata. Critical provenance information was provided as well as links to related images or published papers. All of this made the search results more relevant.
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