Digital Assets General Parameters

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All parameters in this article apply to the re-designed Digital Assets that has been integrated into the ERM module.

This feature requires server version 10.6.1 or higher.

General

Use file name as a default description

Setting this parameter to Yes will set the name of the file as the Digital Asset Description. If null or No, the Description will be blank.

If a library has purchased additional Azure analysis services, this parameter will only be applied to an image if analysis cannot extract a description.

Watermark

These parameters define what type of watermarking will be applied to images loaded into Digital Assets.

Watermarks are generated dynamically using the current parameters when the image is loaded in the OPAC, not when the image is uploaded into Digital Assets. This ensures that watermarking will remain consistent between images if the parameters are updated.

i.e. If you change the Watermark parameters, then refresh the OPAC page of a DA record, the watermark will be generated with the new parameters.

Image type

Which images will have watermarking applied:

None	No images will be watermarked.
Full Image	Only full resolution images will be watermarked.
Access Image	Only access images will be watermarked.
Full & Access Image	Both full resolution and access images will be watermarked.

Thumbnail images will not be watermarked.

Placement

The watermark be placed at:

Center	The center of the image
North-west	The top left corner of the image
North	The top of the image, horizontally centered
North-east	The top right corner of the image
East	The right side of the image, vertically centered
South-east	The bottom right corner of the image
South	The bottom of the image, horizontally centered
South-west	The bottom left corner of the image
West	The left side of the image, vertically centered

Watermark type

The watermarks may be either Text or an Image.

Neither text or images will have transparency/opacity filters applied. They will be overlaid on the uploaded image.

Image options

Image select

To choose the watermark image, click Select file, browse to the image location, select the image and click Open.

Text options

Watermark text

This is the text that will appear on the image.

Use \n in the watermark text as a new line character.

Colour

Use the colour picker to select the text colour.

Rotation

Enter a number (between 0 and 360) to rotate the watermark text that many degrees. Normal left-to-right text orientation will be used if the value is null or 0.

Font & Font type

Select a font from the Font dropdown list, and if desired, select either Bold or Italic from the Font type dropdown.

Common options

Size ratio

The watermark content will be scaled based on the width of the Digital Asset image at 1/x, where x is the selected Size ratio. e.g. If the Size ratio is set to 3, the watermark content will be scaled to 1/3 of the width of the Digital Asset image.

If using a watermark image, the dimensions will remain consistent (i.e. if the watermark and DA images have different height:width ratios, the watermark image will not have its dimensions distorted).

If using watermark text, it may be truncated if the length of the text exceeds the space allocated by the Size ratio. In this case, it is recommended to use \n in the text to enter a new line character.

Tile

Check this box to repetitively tile the watermark content. Tiling watermark images is not recommended as it can totally obscure the Digital Asset image.

Access Image

The Access file height and Access file width parameters are currently not being used.

Image Analysis Score

The parameters below configure the minimum confidence threshold required before applying the relevant tags and flags to images uploaded to Digital Assets.

This content refers to functionality available with Azure Cognitive Services, access to which incurs additional charges. Please contact your Civica Account Manager for more details.

Azure will analyse images as they are uploaded, and attempt to detect the content of the image. It will assign a Confidence rating (0-100) to indicate the level of certainty the application has that it has correctly identified the content. The example below is from analysing a JPEG image of Da Vinci's The Last Supper.

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Analyse an image

Click this button to select a test image to analyse, and review the results of the currently configured Image Analysis Score parameters.

Confidence thresholds

Set a minimum required confidence level for Subject categories, Adult content flag, Racy content flag, Gory content flag, Content tags, and the Description field. If the analysis of the image meets or exceeds the confidence threshold for a given parameter, then that tag or flag will be automatically applied to the uploaded image.

Automatically applied tags and flags can be removed (both individually and in bulk). See the article on Adding, editing and deleting Digital Assets for more information.