Accomodate provenance notes

[yonyitz]

Please create new Provenance notes field which should be located underneath Provenance. Provenance notes field should be expandable/collapsible with the default set as hidden. Please use same indexing settings as Provenance field.

Instructional form text should read as follows: For fine art materials, input provenance notes information following Provenance Style Guide document (P:\Eddleman Institute\Museum\Collections\Art Collections\Provenance\Provenance_Style_Guide.docx). Provenance notes information can either be found in Past Perfect or within provenance files in the Museum department.

New plan of attack

1. There will be one "provenance" field.
   • Entering text into it according to existing museum style guide, it is multi-paragraph text with a paragraph "NOTES" separating the "main" provenance body from the "notes"
   • This field does need to be sanitized on input the same as our "description" field
2. In our view, I'm imagining a line like <%= provenance_summary, provenance_notes = split_provenance(actual_provenance_data) %>
   • split_provenance (not necessarily the right name I dunno) will be a rails helper method, whose implementation can be something like actual_provenance_data.split("\n\nNOTES\n\n")
3. We will have custom view logic for displaying, where the provenance_summary is just on the page (formatted for display like "description"), while the provenance_notes will be hidden behind an expand/collapse disclosure of some kind.
   • Doesn't necessarily need a separate "label" on page, it can probably be in the "provenance" section, just below it.
   • While making it full-width makes ("under" label rather than along side) might sense for such length data, to avoid messing up the page design, it would probably need to be at the top (right under description) or bottom (under "Credit line") if it were going to be full-width. Without further redesign of this page, I don't like a full-width field breaking up the "table" label/value layout in the middle of it.
   • Both the "summary" and "notes" need to be sanitized/formatted same as "description" field

Note: Step 1 needs to be done in scihist_digicoll if not already. Subsequent steps not necessarily yet, since we don't really have a front-end display yet (but hopefully will soon).

[jrochkind]

Is this meant to be available to the public, or staff-only?

Can you give us an example of what would go there?

I'm not sure if we have a current feature/implementation available for "expandable/collapsible with the default set as hidden" -- do you mean on the "edit" form, or on the page showing an item? Are there any current examples in our app of a field that is "expandable/collapsible with the default set as hidden"?

[yonyitz]

Thanks for your questions, @jrochkind. Eddie and I have been discussing this and he asked me to create a Github ticket. Here is an example record Eddie created showing how extensive notes fields can potentially be. We thought that a solution could be having an expandable/collapsible notes field that would reduce scrolling on the page showing an item (not on the edit form). The provenance notes field should be public.

[eddierubeiz]

Hey @jrochkind - this is in response to how voluminous provenance metadata shows up on the item display page. If you take one of the examples cited by the museum staff on the P drive like https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/double-portrait-of-trudl-33706 you'll see 3/4 of the text is notes. The narrow column we use for metadata (see e.g. https://staging.digital.sciencehistory.org/works/c534fp505 ) doesn't really go well with large chunks of text. Hence the idea of a show/hide toggle.

[eddierubeiz]

We should also consider having the provenance metadata and/or notes going under their labels rather than alongside them, as we do with citation metadata. This definitely makes better use of horizontal space.

[jrochkind]

An example record in staging with actual copy-and-pasted from PastPerfect data:

https://staging.digital.sciencehistory.org/works/12579s91d

(Beware, staging may refresh and lose it at some point. So actually I'll put it here too, copied out of the 'edit' text box from that record:)

Marie Therese Trinidad Brocheton, Comtesse de La Beraudiere (1872-1958) [1]; (sale, Collection of the Countess de la Beraudière, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Jay Gould Mansion, New York, 1930, lot 20 (with "Le Notaire", not illustrated).
William Fox, acquired 1930; by descent to his widow, Mrs. William Fox.
(Sale, Kende Galleries, New York, 1-2 December 1942, lot 58 [with "Le Notairem," $320.00].)
Fisher Scientific, Pittsburgh, PA; Fisher Scientific International Inc., Hampton, NH (acquired by Chester G. Fisher), circa 1942-2000.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2000 (from Fisher Scientific).

Notes:
[1] Marie Therese Trinidad Brocheton, Comtesse de La Beraudiere (1872-1958) was a French salonniere and literary figure. Madame de La Beraudiere was a friend of the famous novelist, Marcel Proust, and she was the mistress of the wealthy Henri Charles, Comte de Greffuhle (1845-1932). Madame de La Beraudiere was the model for Proust's character Odette, the mistress of the Duc de Guermantes in his series of novels A La Recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).

[sanfordd]

I'll keep an eye to avoid staging refreshes until this ticket is closed.

[eddierubeiz]

Adding some vertical space after the "Notes..." link and changing its text to "Show Notes".

[yonyitz]

Erin has approved line breaks between provenance info/notes. Thanks for working on this to make it happen!

[yonyitz]

Here are the sample records with data copied from Past Perfect:

https://staging.digital.sciencehistory.org/works/x920fx36z

https://staging.digital.sciencehistory.org/works/12579s91d

Let me know if you need more sample data. Thanks!

[eddierubeiz]

I'm closing this ticket for now; if any more work is needed after a few provenance lists are added to production items, we can always open a new ticket for that.