Dear Deborah, This is a fantastic idea! I don't know why I never thought of it. Your work is a great starting point... I will play with it some more and keep testing in the Twitter Card validator to see how it looks:
https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator It would be great to get a high-quality thumbnail and a description. Thanks! On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:22 AM Fitchett, Deborah < deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz> wrote: > Kia ora koutou, > > > > Has anyone played around with Twitter cards and/or Open Graph with Dspace? > The goal being that, if someone tweets a link to an item in the repository, > Twitter (or Facebook or whoever) automatically displays a little preview of > the item’s title, thumbnail etc. This seems likely to improve > click-throughs/engagement. > > > > I’ve edited page-structure.xsl (we’re on XMLUI, Mirage2) to get some basic > metadata in – following the Google Scholar Metadata section: > > <!-- Add Open Graph tags > for appearance on social media --> > > <meta property="og:type" > content="article"/> > > <meta > property="og:site_name" content="Research@Lincoln"/> > > <meta property="og:image" > content=" > https://ltl.lincoln.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/01/lincoln.png > "/> > > <xsl:for-each > select="/dri:document/dri:meta/dri:pageMeta/dri:metadata[@element = > 'title']"> > > <meta > property="og:title" content="{.}"/> > > </xsl:for-each> > > <xsl:for-each > select="/dri:document/dri:meta/dri:pageMeta/dri:metadata[@element = > 'identifier']"> > > <meta > property="og:url" content="https://hdl.handle.net/{.}"/> > > </xsl:for-each> > > Which experiments on Twitter show works! J > > > > But note the image is a static logo, and I haven’t managed to get a > description in. This content doesn’t appear to be included in the dri > structure – except that dcterms.abstract is buried in the xhtml_head_item > which is a giant blob-thing of xml as text so I can’t reach into it (unless > maybe I play with substrings). Is there any other way to get at the > abstract here? > > > > And is there a way to access the mets data from page-structure.xsl? (If > so, I should be able to get the item’s thumbnail to use for the image.) We > have in item-view.xsl and I don’t see why it wouldn’t be accessible from > page-structure.xsl, but maybe that shows how much I know. In any case so > far all my trial-and-error messing around trying to access it has resulted > in errors. > > > > Ngā mihi, > > > > Deborah > > –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > > *Deborah Fitchett* > > Head of Department: Digital Services > > > > –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > > *Library, Teaching and Learning – Te Wharepūrākau* > > PO Box 85064, Lincoln University > > Lincoln 7647, Christchurch, New Zealand > > +64 3 423 0358 > > deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz > > ltl.lincoln.ac.nz > > > > –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > > *Lincoln University* > > Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki > > –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > "The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be > confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, > distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you > have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return > e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all > attachments from your system." > > -- > All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of > Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Technical Support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/SYCPR01MB475232A846F2EC2145DBA051C5180%40SYCPR01MB4752.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/SYCPR01MB475232A846F2EC2145DBA051C5180%40SYCPR01MB4752.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://picturingjordan.com https://englishbulgaria.net https://mjanja.ch -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/CAKKdN4Vk6hbn1cMxh2SFHsKE2RufWWxO%3DRgTho2aOYULTkxSsQ%40mail.gmail.com.
