Core Platform Ideas

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.

Currently, on resource pages, one can only enter a single agent and a role a time. To improve efficiency, it would be ideal to have the ability to add multiple agents and their roles all at once rather than having to repeat the same steps over and over.

To enhance discoverability and improve the research experience, implement an advanced search filter that allows users to limit their searches to one specific archival collection within the WPI Digital Archives portal. Rather than searching across all holdings, researchers could refine their queries to a selected collection, resulting in more targeted and relevant search results.

Whenever a resource is deleted in the Archives portal, the page automatically jumps to the bottom of the resource page (Notes field area), requiring the user to scroll all the way back to the top. Because many archival workflows involve frequent item consolidation and deletion, this behavior is both frustrating and time-consuming. It would be much more efficient if the behavior were maintained that after deleting a resource, the view would be kept at the top of the screen rather than at the bottom.

In the tab “Additional” is a dropdown “function”. This field should be replaced with a card for “Functions” allowing to connect multiple indexing terms. It should work like the existing card for “Focus areas”, but create indexing term references with the type “Function”.

It would be great to have ability to assign multiple artists to one (collaborative) work.

It would be great to be able to add information fielded in the Other Identifiers section of an artwork page to the tombstone information of a given artwork on the artwork detail page in the PD. Right now, only the global ID, cat. nos., and dossier nos. can be added (and their labels can be adjusted) in the PD, but the ability to add additional identifiers that do not conform to these categories would be very helpful, especially for works that have more types of identifiers.