Week 9 - Fall 2018 (Kaltura, ArchiveSpace, Google Tag Manager)

Here are three systems related tasks/actions for the ninth week of the fall semester.

1. This week I was dealing with a Kaltura player and playlist that we wanted to be responsive to its layout. Well, I spent way too much time on this one trying to customize the player and playlist using HTML and the Kaltura API. As it turned out, it was already in a responsive player set to a 16 x 9 ratio. However, it's width was actually large than the div it is was in so it would pooch out the side. Mike shared a way to make a player responsive, but to be honest, I don't think you need to use that trick anymore. Good thing this one got finished this week.
   
2. Did some organizing to our Google Analytics and Tag Manager. It's perfect now as I went over with Mike how we had it set up, he shows me how we want to capture all pages, but with the way the application is set up, we also need to capture the History Changes. We verified this is in place and working for the Academic Commons, we also set it up for the new instance of ArchivesSpace.
   
3. Finish the week off with another Kaltura related challenge, I'm looking at integrating Kaltura into Omeka, and Will at the IU Digital libraries had written an Omeka plugin for Kaltura. It's not official, but I thought I would give it a try. It basically takes the Kaltura information, uiconfID, parnterID, and then based on your parameters it will play a video. Turns out its really designed with PHP 7, and the libapps server is just on 5.3. So I'm going to move my development to libtest-1, which is running PHP 7. Something positive from that challenge last week. 

Summer Academic Commons Usability...

So I wanted to at least capture what we came up with during our testing of the Academic Commons of Summer 2018.

Here are the test folks and the date and time we had them test the site.

This was the moderator script and these were the notetaker sheets.

We had three folks take the test, the only problem which I had with them is that they all were library employees. Not sure it affects the outcomes, but to me, it just seems like it must.

These were the outcomes of the testing.

Mike does not believe we can do much with these now, so we will just sit on them. If we do ever return to looking at using the Academic Commons we may return to these test results.