LUX: Yale Collections Discovery

LUX: Yale Collections Discovery
Revealing the cultural heritage collections of Yale University to the world, LUX: Yale Collections Discovery provides a unified gateway to the holdings of Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries. This transformative service enables users to identify, access, and engage with items of interest within Yale’s physical and digital collections. It also uncovers relationships among items, inviting users to explore additional materials across collections.

Project Overview

• General
  • Project website
  • CHIT Google Drive
  • LUX 1.0 MVP Report
  • Platform Selection Report
• Functional
  • Project plan
  • LUX Requirements
  • Sprint/Decision Log
    
    
• ITS Documentation

LUX 1.0 Schedule

• POC Phase 1 - Blacklight/solr - Summer/Fall 2020 - done
• POC Phase 2 - Platform Evaluation - Winter/Spring 2021
• Design Phase - Summer 2021
• Build/Dev - Fall/Winter/Spring/Summer 2021-2022
• Beta/Soft launch - September 2022
• Public launch - Spring 2023

LUX 1.0 documentation

• About Rights (sprint completed)
• About Supertypes (draft)
• About Visualizations (draft)
• Linked.Art Mapping (draft)
• Hub pages

LUX Committees

• CCD/LUX Steering
  
  • Drive folder
  • Weekly summaries
    
    
• CHITA
  • Drive folder
  • Tech Stack Evaluation (task force)
  • Data Transformation (task force)

• Metadata
  • Drive folder
  • Metadata harmonization for LUX 1.0
    
    
• Search and Discovery
  • Drive folder
  • Quepid (task force)
    
    
• UI/UX
  
  • Drive folder
  • Wireframes (Axure)
  • Assessments
    
    
• Rights
  • Drive folder
  • About Rights (sprint completed)
  • Use of Standardized Tools, Rights Statements, and Licenses (Draft)
    
    
• Bias Awareness and Responsibility