Composer URL

[mkonik]

I added 3 fields in POPC-2 table.

1. ID-COM-nifc: this is database ID (for future use)
2. URL-COM-nifc@PL: link to composer PL site in PolishMusicPortal (PMP) webpage
3. URL-COM-nifc@EN: link to composer EN site in PMP webpage

Composer's portrait with link should redirect to these webpages by default rather than Wiki. I prefer Wiki, but for Artur PMP is priority. I think it would be good to add other links next to the portrait (wiki, imslp, wikidata, RISM authorities).

BTW. Maybe it would be good to add "empty" portrait for composers who do not have images?

[craigsapp]

That is good and sounds good.

If there is no portrait, then I can organize a list with these fields (if available), in the general order of detail about the composer:

Composer's name (dates)
on Polish Music Portal
   Wikipedia
   RISM
   IMSLP

When there is a portrait, the list would be placed on the right side of the portrait (and the composer/dates still displayed underneath the image.

[mkonik]

I think that this might be done similarly to PMP:

If ther's no portrait, project logo should be displayed instead (btw. not this one).

[craigsapp]

• I would like to see the composers' dates for historical context.

• Placing the text inside of the image looks nice, but is complicated when filling in with composer portraits not delivered by PMP due to a variety of background colors. Also there are some longer names that will not fit, and there are the composer dates which would be useful to display along with the name on the browse page, but not fit will in the demoed style.

• Would the logo be the PMP logo? If so, then it would be confusing to show the logo if the composer is non-Polish (such as Luca Marenzio).

[mkonik]

• composer's dates are good, it should be displayed anyway
• we could/should import pre-prepared images from PMP, by definition if there's no biogram or image, we should add it to PMP, for foreign composers we should create images (b/w with similar size) and remove background (transparent?)
• it will be POPC logo - for foreign composers it is still OK, because their music (kept in PL archives) was transcribed in the frames of this project

[craigsapp]

for foreign composers we should create images (b/w with similar size) and remove background (transparent?)

That is good if you want to do the work :-).

Preferably these images would be served from a database on the NIFC servers, but we can add to the POPC2 server if needed (probably preferable to storing the images directly within the website). But in any case, I have already set up access to the portraits to be any URL in the Portrait column of the composer metadata spreadsheet, so if you update the portrait source on that spreadsheet, the new location will be used (after I make a copy of the composer metadata spreadsheet to the POPC2 digital score server (make composer-index in the cache directory), since accessing directly from Google Sheets is too slow).

Currently the portrait images are resized to 200x200 pixels on the browse page (300 and 400 size looked too large). Extra portrait images would probably be useful to prepare at higher resolutions for other contexts, but including thumbnail sizes of 400 pixels or less would be ideal to minimize download times (I had originally linked to wikimedia images that were quite high resolution, but had to switch to thumbnail links to speed up their download).

[mkonik]

That is good if you want to do the work :-).

We have a person in NIFC who works on such stuff - I will ask her to prepare all files.

[craigsapp]

OK. When the files are prepared, she can have the placed in a standardized location (such as the NIFC person database), or we can install them specifically on the POCP2 data server or website.