LUNA Commons

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Last updated: Aug 30, 2012Version comment
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Introduction

LUNA Commons is a new source for finding valuable, educational content from digital collections built in the Insight Software from Luna Imaging, Inc. and presented in Insight's dynamic new LUNA browser. To see what is available, take a look at www.lunacommons.org.

Adding LUNA Commons Content to your LUNA

Adding all the LUNA Commons content is very easy once you have configured your LUNA version to receive the content. This is covered in the installation section of this manual.
Once you have upgraded to 6.2+ you will have a new task in the LUNA Publisher.

Notice the new task called Get LUNA Public Content.

Select the Modify button


You have 4 options when completing this task

    • Save Task (will only save the task)
    • Save and Run Task (will save and run the task now)
    • Save and Schedule Task (will save then execute the task on a schedule)
    • Save, Schedule and Run Task


Next, Use Credentials to assign access to these collections as you would any other collection or you can select "Public Content Allowed" to assign all the Public collections.

Sharing your Content with the LUNA Commons

As our parents told us sharing is a good thing. We have made it easy to share selected collections with the world and other institutions. Make sure your server is setup to share collections by following the Installation Instructions.
During the installation, you were asked to create an account. This account was assigned the Content Distribution credential (4). To specify which collections you would like to share, assign them to the Content Distribution credential.
Once you have assigned the collections, you will need to run the Maintenance Mode twice.
Next, you will need to run a task in the LUNA Publisher. Open the LUNA Publisher and choose Task List

Modify Prepare Public Content


Decide how often you want to update your shared content.
You have 4 options when completing this task

    • Save Task (will only save the task)
    • Save and Run Task (will save and run the task now)
    • Save and Schedule Task (will save then execute the task on a schedule)
    • Save, Schedule and Run Task






Once the task completes, the LUNA Commons server will try to retrieve your content on its next scheduled run. This may vary and usually it happens about once a week.