Core Platform Ideas

In the NoI platform, the interaction model on the artwork / publication / related artwork page creates a confusing information hierarchy: The Issue: A prominent "Jump to related pages" button overlays the artwork thumbnail. When hovering over the thumbnail, users naturally expect clicking it will take them to those related pages. Instead, clicking the image takes them to the primary artwork details. To actually navigate to the related pages, users must precisely hover over a small text/button area. This target only changes to dark grey upon a separate, direct hover, making the true click target unintuitive and difficult to hit.

Displaying more than one image per agent in the PD, as is possible with the artworks.

For artworks, exhibitions, and publications, there is oftentimes information that should be documented, that is traditionally documented in publications within brackets after the title. This information is now captured in the title field in CAT but when it appears with the title in our digital publications, it should not render in italics. Examples include: Language, location, description and annotation: Exhibition catalogue title: 4 Amerikanare—konst som håller utan krumelurer (text in Swedish) We would like "(text in Swedish)" to be in Roman Script. Periodical title: Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) We would like "(Washington, D.C.)" to be in Roman Script. Description in publication: [Durand-Ruel Advertisement] [Sans titre] This title text should be entirely in Roman script.

I understand that we have to select the primary title WITHIN the artwork details section on an artwork record. However, it is really important to know where that information reliably comes from, just like all the other artwork details. And like all the other artwork details, it's not possible to create a rule (the "earliest" instance, or one type of event). I realize that we should expect that a researcher may enter the primary title as an artwork detail for all the art events, if it is consistently titled, so we cannot expect to only see one event with the "primary title" in it. Is there a way that we could select the salient event as part of the artwork details feature? It is important for us to know whether the title of an artwork comes from a historic resource or one of our contemporary researchers.

It would be helpful for the bulk uploads feature in CAT to include an option to select that would automatically assign preview images to resources rather than manually assigning them. When a resource includes multiple media files, the system should use the first media file as the default preview image. This automation would streamline the upload workflow, reduce manual image assignment, and ensure that resources consistently display an appropriate preview image upon ingestion.

It would be helpful for the bulk uploads feature in CAT to include an option to select that would automatically assign preview images to resources rather than manually assigning them. When a resource includes multiple media files, the system should use the first media file as the default preview image. This automation would streamline the upload workflow, reduce manual image assignment, and ensure that resources consistently display an appropriate preview image upon ingestion.

We noticed that the year display for corporate bodies does not look ideal when only a founding date is available, but the institution still exists today. Please see the attached screenshot. The current display, for example "1921–", could be presented more clearly, such as "1921–today", "founded in 1921", or a similar format. Thank you very much for considering this improvement.

In the publication notes on the PD, it would be useful to have the ability to include links to external publication sources when the full content is not available on the platform. Providing a proper hyperlink in the PD would allow users to directly access the external publication.

It would be helpful to be able to choose the sequence order of the entries for signature, inscriptions, and marks.

Add OCLC Number as a searchable filter option within Publications to help identify and distinguish different publication types. This would allow staff to quickly identify different records, in addition to the existing dashboard, making it easier to decipher publication types that have been already catalogued in WorldCat.