Dear Insight Community,

In anticipation of the Insight v6.0 + LUNA release, we would like to take this opportunity to help you prepare for the upgrade and the new processes to publish your Insight collections to LUNA.

The information provided below builds upon the April 3 Communiqué and remains available through this link. To recap one important message in the earlier Communiqué, “the upgrade is additive, you will be able to publish your collections to LUNA without interrupting the operation of your Insight server components. This will give you much more flexibility about when you choose to perform the upgrade to Insight 6.0”.

There are four key topics that will help you make your plans to publish your Insight collection to the new browser, LUNA.

1. Expanded Insight Architecture: recommendations for the LUNA Server.
2. Category Mapping: preparing to publish Insight collections to LUNA.
3. LUNA Authentication: increased flexibility.
4. LUNA Explored: sharing LUNA content with other applications.

1. LUNA Server

The LUNA Server is the new server side component behind the LUNA client. Collections published to LUNA are indexed on the LUNA SERVER. The LUNA Publisher will automatically update the index based upon a schedule that you define.

In order to publish collections to LUNA the following three Insight clients will need to be upgraded to Insight v6.0:

• Administrator Tools (to support the configuration of LUNA)
• User Manager (a minor update to the language files)
• Studio (includes the LUNA Publisher)

In addition to these client upgrades you’ll be installing the new LUNA Server component. If you are adding the LUNA Server to your existing Insight server we recommend 1.5GB of memory for the entire Insight + LUNA Server Suite or a minimum of 512 MB additional memory, depending on the size of your collections.

2. Category Mapping

Who, What, Where, When are the names of the four facets, or categories built in the new LUNA browser, which will help your end users find what they’re looking for by filtering their search results.

Who, What, Where, When will also be integral to cross collection searching in LUNA. At the time you publish an Insight collection using the LUNA Publisher, you will have the option to map up to twenty of your own fields to any of these 4W fields. This will simplify the selection of fields available to end users who want to perform a search across two or more collections in LUNA. It will also allow users to seamlessly construct Advanced Search queries across multiple collections to yield greater results.

Some Examples:

3. Authentication

LUNA streamlines the user management process and simplifies the distribution of collections. LUNA authentication offers flexible solutions that are readily configurable for your environment.

Integrates with current Insight authentication
Access to LUNA can be granted through the Insight User Manager to authenticate LUNA end-users with their pre-existing Insight logins. An existing username/password in the Insight User Manager (via the creation of Insight User Profiles through manual entry, LDAP Authentication, or through integration with Active Directory [combined Kerberos + LDAP]), will allow users to bypass authentication (registration) in LUNA to access LUNA collections.

Supports account creation in LUNA
LUNA Authentication works with your Insight User Manager but will also allow users to register and manage their own accounts. Based upon user authentication (including IP authentication) new accounts created and accessed in LUNA will be assigned a set of credentials. The LUNA credentials control the available collections that the end user can access. Credentials also determine the available viewing resolution and whether or not the end-user has export privileges.

Shares and Folders for user created Groups and Presentations
With LUNA, the ability to create a Media Group or Presentation is an integral function of the software and not a feature that requires administrative input.

All users who have login access to the collection have access to these features. It is no longer necessary for Insight Administrators to establish storage folders (Shares) for Groups and Presentations. In LUNA, Media Groups and Presentations have user controlled settings to indicate whether they are private or shared with the optional added security (optional) of password protected access.

4. LUNA Explored

With LUNA, end-users can share URLs or create embeddable web widgets. Where a URL provides a shareable link, a web widget is a chunk of code which can be placed into a separate application.

End-users can create a web widget of a single image in a Detail View or of multiple images in the LUNA Workspace (where you save zoomed in details and image comparisons), or create a web widget directly to a Media Group, a select Collection, a search result, a presentation, a single slide from a presentation and more. The LUNA created web widget can then be embedded in the end-users courseware, wiki, or website so it can be shared with expanded audiences.

As with the unique URL’s created in LUNA through the Share This feature, the Embed This feature’s web widgets are dynamic. So if a user creates a web widget of a Media Group, embeds this widget in their wiki and then changes the original Media Group, those changes will be reflected in the widget and thus the wiki as well. As if that wasn’t cool enough, these web widgets can also be customized to include the LUNA viewing tools so users who aren’t viewing content in LUNA, can still experience the power of the LUNA viewing tools.

We are now just weeks away from releasing Insight v6.0 + LUNA. Once we release, we will be able to work with you to publish collections to LUNA. The Luna team very much looks forward to working with you as you explore LUNA to create Media Groups, search and bring in your own content from Flickr, create Slide Shows, create Presentations and share your selected content with others!

Stay tuned…there’s more to discover with LUNA. In the next Communiqué we’ll cover:

• Optional Google and Yahoo! ads
• Built-in earch engine optimization
• The LUNA Community Commons

Nancy Harm
Director of Business Development
Luna Imaging, Inc.
www.lunaimaging.com
917-521-1309
nancy@lunaimaging.com