A search/discoverability enhancement “Learning to Rank (LTR) is a class of techniques that apply supervised machine learning (ML) to solve ranking problems.“ [link] LTR is a query reranking Solr plugin. Another comment on this from [link] to better summarize LTR, “Learning to rank (LTR) is a class of algorithmic techniques that apply supervised machine learning to solve ranking problems in search relevancy. In other words, it’s what orders query results. Done well, you have happy employees and customers; done poorly, at best you have frustrations, and worse, they will never return.”
Automatic Alternative Text [link] implement AI capabilities into the processi. Detecting content ii. Identifying faces/geographical features in a given image iii. Determining the prevailing colors
Oxford Common File Layout Specification (OCFL) is coming next year with the release of Fedora 6.x according to Danny Lamb and David Wilcox. This should be available within Islandora as part of upgrading Fedora to 6.x.
The previously mentioned disadvantages of the Fedora API may be mitigated by a related community initiative called the Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL). The OCFL is a community-based effort to develop “an application-independent approach to the storage of digital information in a structured, transparent, and predictable manner. It is designed to promote long-term object management best practices within digital repositories.” The original idea for this effort came from a Fedora Camp hosted at the University of Oxford in September 2017, so it has roots in the Fedora community even though the OCFL is not dependent onFedora in any way. However, if Fedora were to store repository resources as specified by the OCFL, major upgrades in the future may become much easier. One of the primary motivating use cases of the OCFL is to reduce the need for data migrations; both because moving large amounts of data is time-consuming and because such migrations risk data corruption and loss.The OCFL decouples the structure of files on disk from the application(s) that manage the files by defining a file and folder hierarchy to which applications must conform. Thus, the files can be left in place and new software applications can implement the OCFL specification in order to manage the files. - [link]
Image Alt Fix Improve your Drupal Website’s Section 508 Compliance by Making Images with Missing Alt Text into Accessible Images. Scan the website’s rendered content for images with missing or blank alt text attributes. Flag those images using Taxonomy Terms and move them through an administrative workflow in a custom Views page. Look at the actual image flagged for remediation and quickly add missing alt text. All images are labeled with a role attribute of presentation until the alt text is added. If the image should not have alt text, then permanently change the image record to only be for presentation, which will effectively hide it from screen readers.
