Vault to Spotlight

This manual describes the process of migrating data from Vault to Spotlight. Vault is our software repository for storing and preserving digital artifacts in our collections. Spotlight is our digital exhibit platform, where we curate, highlight, and create a narrative for specific groups of objects.

For our purposes, we will focus on uploading and exporting data in batches via CSVs, although both Vault and Spotlight support uploading items individually.

If you're looking for Vault-specific information, see the Vault Wiki. If you want to report a problem with Spotlight, please do so on the Issues page.

Start here: Goal: Working Towards a Spotlight CSV

Table of Contents

For General Users

• Goal: Working Towards a Spotlight CSV
• User Document
  • Why Regularize Metadata?
  • Facet Fields
  • The Coordinates Field and Google Maps Block
• Mapping Document
• The URL column
• How Spotlight Indexes Metadata
• Visibility Settings
• Pre-flight Checklist

For Developers

• Developer Cheatsheets
• Exporting from Vault
• Visibility Settings
• Preserving Special Characters
• Web Storage
• Non-image Items
  • Videos
  • PDFs
• Compound Objects

Other Resources

• Samples
• Glossary
• Troubleshooting
• Developer Cheatsheets