Annotate user name in Creator

[bertsky]

When many different annotators cover a stock of documents, they are sometimes inconsistent or need specific post-processing (or just need to know which files are "theirs"). Thus it would be highly useful to make use of /PcGts/Creator (which is currently empty) in the result.

Tomcat has full-blown user management, so I guess it would not be too difficult to query the user name?

[maxnth]

While I agree that this would indeed be a useful feature I'm not sure that using – for example – the current tomcat user wouldn't exclude people running LAREX with jetty etc.

My suggestion would be to add a button + modal in the viewer which opens a form for manually entering all possible PAGE XML metadata (Creator, notes, …).
One could allow the user to set a temporary user name (either in localstorage or for a session) so that this username automatically gets added to all pages the user edits/saves while the temporary user name is set.

Would that be helpful in your use case as well?

[bertsky]

My suggestion would be to add a button + modal in the viewer which opens a form for manually entering all possible PAGE XML metadata (Creator, notes, …).

Yes, and preferably as part of the segmentation settings (SegmentationSettingsReader etc), so they can be easily saved/loaded.

One could allow the user to set a temporary user name (either in localstorage or for a session) so that this username automatically gets added to all pages the user edits/saves while the temporary user name is set.

I don't know enough about application server programming to judge how this could/should be implemented.

Would that be helpful in your use case as well?

Absolutely. Tomcat username was just my first thought.

[maxnth]

Modal to view and edit basic metadata (creator, comments, externalRef) was added in ef2c233
More complex metadata / attribute editing will get added later on

[bertsky]

It would still be great if it were possible to have some metadata pre-filled for all pages (like author/creator, ID/external-ref, comments)...