Slides for presentation in session "Minimal Friction, Maximal Use: Optimizing Open Access Image Delivery" at MCN 2013, the Museum Computer Network annual conference, in Montreal on 11/21/2013. The speaking notes for these are also on SlideShare.

1. Minimal Friction, Maximal Use:
Optimizing Open Access Image Delivery
In presentation order:
Amy Heibel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
John ffrench, Yale University Art Gallery
Alan Newman, National Gallery of Art
Cathryn Goodwin, Princeton University Art Museum
Rob Lancefield, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Stanley Smith, J. Paul Getty Museum
James Shulman, Artstor
MCN 2013, Montreal, 21 November 2013

2. Minimal Friction, Maximal Use:
Optimizing Open Access Image Delivery
Open Access Image Delivery at the
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
@roblancefield
MCN 2013
Museum Computer Network
Montreal
21 November 2013

7. DAC Open Access Images: sketch of delivery implementation at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
What you can do upon
finding a desired image:
Click an image link.
Get the image.
You are here.
Web Browser
Discovery happens
over here, too.
Desktop (or
Downloads, etc.)
Get the image.
Click an image link.
Collection Search page for
an object with OA image
Apache Rewrite Rule to
catch and rewrite URL
DAC Collection Search
dac-collection.wesleyan.edu
University Content
Management Server
(a Xythos instance named
wesfiles.wesleyan.edu)
EmbARK Web Kiosk
4D Web Server
Apache
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
What three machines do:
Provide a link,
Accept a request,
Translate its URL,
Serve the image.
The main DAC web space
www.wesleyan.edu/dac
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Provide a link from DAC Collection
Search to canonical image URL in the
main DAC web space, for long-term
durability across future systems.
Accept and Translate requested
URL to the image’s live path in current
architecture (rewrite as an abstraction
layer basically transparent to users).
Serve requested image directly to
the user’s desktop via web browser
download, sourced from translated
path on content management server.
Rob Lancefield, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University.
DAC Open Access Images
repository (just a worldreadable Xythos directory)
Minimal Friction, Maximal Use. MCN 2013, Montreal, November 21, 2013.
@roblancefield

10. DAC Open Access Images: sketch of delivery implementation at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
What you can do upon
finding a desired image:
Click an image link.
Get the image.
You are here.
Web Browser
Discovery happens
over here, too.
Desktop (or
Downloads, etc.)
Get the image.
Click an image link.
Collection Search page for
an object with OA image
Apache Rewrite Rule to
catch and rewrite URL
DAC Collection Search
dac-collection.wesleyan.edu
University Content
Management Server
(a Xythos instance named
wesfiles.wesleyan.edu)
EmbARK Web Kiosk
4D Web Server
Apache
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
What three machines do:
Provide a link,
Accept a request,
Translate its URL,
Serve the image.
The main DAC web space
www.wesleyan.edu/dac
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Provide a link from DAC Collection
Search to canonical image URL in the
main DAC web space, for long-term
durability across future systems.
Accept and Translate requested
URL to the image’s live path in current
architecture (rewrite as an abstraction
layer basically transparent to users).
Serve requested image directly to
the user’s desktop via web browser
download, sourced from translated
path on content management server.
Rob Lancefield, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University.
DAC Open Access Images
repository (just a worldreadable Xythos directory)
Minimal Friction, Maximal Use. MCN 2013, Montreal, November 21, 2013.
@roblancefield

12. DAC Open Access Images: sketch of delivery implementation at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
What you can do upon
finding a desired image:
Click an image link.
Get the image.
You are here.
Web Browser
Discovery happens
over here, too.
Desktop (or
Downloads, etc.)
Get the image.
Click an image link.
Collection Search page for
an object with OA image
Apache Rewrite Rule to
catch and rewrite URL
DAC Collection Search
dac-collection.wesleyan.edu
University Content
Management Server
(a Xythos instance named
wesfiles.wesleyan.edu)
EmbARK Web Kiosk
4D Web Server
Apache
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
What three machines do:
Provide a link,
Accept a request,
Translate its URL,
Serve the image.
The main DAC web space
www.wesleyan.edu/dac
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Provide a link from DAC Collection
Search to canonical image URL in the
main DAC web space, for long-term
durability across future systems.
Accept and Translate requested
URL to the image’s live path in current
architecture (rewrite as an abstraction
layer basically transparent to users).
Serve requested image directly to
the user’s desktop via web browser
download, sourced from translated
path on content management server.
Rob Lancefield, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University.
DAC Open Access Images
repository (just a worldreadable Xythos directory)
Minimal Friction, Maximal Use. MCN 2013, Montreal, November 21, 2013.
@roblancefield

14. DAC Open Access Images: sketch of delivery implementation at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
What you can do upon
finding a desired image:
Click an image link.
Get the image.
You are here.
Web Browser
Discovery happens
over here, too.
Desktop (or
Downloads, etc.)
Get the image.
Click an image link.
Collection Search page for
an object with OA image
Apache Rewrite Rule to
catch and rewrite URL
DAC Collection Search
dac-collection.wesleyan.edu
University Content
Management Server
(a Xythos instance named
wesfiles.wesleyan.edu)
EmbARK Web Kiosk
4D Web Server
Apache
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
What three machines do:
Provide a link,
Accept a request,
Translate its URL,
Serve the image.
The main DAC web space
www.wesleyan.edu/dac
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Pre-existing Virtual
Machine in University
ITS Data Center
Provide a link from DAC Collection
Search to canonical image URL in the
main DAC web space, for long-term
durability across future systems.
Accept and Translate requested
URL to the image’s live path in current
architecture (rewrite as an abstraction
layer basically transparent to users).
Serve requested image directly to
the user’s desktop via web browser
download, sourced from translated
path on content management server.
Rob Lancefield, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University.
DAC Open Access Images
repository (just a worldreadable Xythos directory)
Minimal Friction, Maximal Use. MCN 2013, Montreal, November 21, 2013.
@roblancefield

15. Minimal Friction, Maximal Use:
Optimizing Open Access Image Delivery
Open Access Image Delivery at the
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Rob Lancefield
Manager of Museum Information Services
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
@roblancefield
MCN 2013
Museum Computer Network
Montreal
21 November 2013