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The Photo Gallery

A private archive of films, photographs, places, and time.
Piet — front-door manifest subhead, February 2026

The Photo Gallery descends from the “slideshow room” in Piet’s founding list. Even in the prototype, every slide had a title: the photograph was treated as a named object with a caption and a credit, never a cell in a chronological grid. That instinct still governs the room — photos belong to stories, stories to rooms, and nothing here scrolls like a camera roll.

To be confirmed with Piet (Friday read-back): the photo room’s founding intent is the thinnest on record — the prototype was a technical slideshow — so this room benefits most from his own words.

How it’s built

Section titled “How it’s built”

The room is GalleryView with three browse modes, a lightbox that carries the content types, and the museum-mode wall-plaque. The full content-type catalogue — single photos, photos with stories, photo sets with video or audio — lives on Room Types & Content with screenshots; this page doesn’t repeat it.

  • Three views, one collection — list (the default; titles, dates, credits), grid (images only, for scanning), and the parallax gallery view (full-screen, free-scroll, museum-scaled). The view toggle is the room’s one control.

The Living Room — grid view with media badges on sets and stories The Living Room, grid view — audio, story, and film badges on the tiles. Staging capture · The Ashworth Collection · 2026-07-03.

  • The lightbox — every photo and set opens in it: split layout when a story rides along, chapter-synced Vimeo when a film does, a waveform player and transcript when a voice does. Keyboard, focus-trap, and reduced-motion behaviour are shared platform contracts.

The Kitchen Table — photo set with audio narration in the lightbox “The Kitchen Table” — a photo set with audio narration: waveform, chapters, and the transcript behind one tap. Staging capture · The Ashworth Collection · 2026-07-03.

  • The wall-plaque — at museum scale each exhibited photo gets its serif title, whispered-caps metadata, and the human-written curator note (never auto-generated; absent means absent).
  • Visitor submissions — the room accepts uploads from family visitors; submissions land in moderation (pending) and the curator’s decision controls what ever reaches the wall. Approval triggers a thank-you mail to the submitter via the sync pipeline.

The Living Room on a tablet, with the Share Your Story submission block The primary device is an iPad on a side table — the room at tablet width, with the Share Your Story block that feeds moderation. Staging capture · The Ashworth Collection · 2026-07-03.

Setting it up

Section titled “Setting it up”

How a Photo Gallery reaches a family’s museum. The shared chain is documented once on Room Types & Content; these are the photo-specific steps.

  1. Declare the content source. In the family’s config base, add a Collections row: name, slug, Collection Type: photo-gallery, the content base’s ID in Base ID, Status: active.

  2. Declare the room — twice. Add a Rooms row in the config base (name, slug, Type: photo-gallery, Collection link, Status), and make sure a row with the same slug exists in the content base’s own Rooms table — the sync matches photo rooms by slug across the two. A missing content-base row means the room silently drains empty.

  3. Fill Photos and Photo Sets in the content base. Photos link to their room and optionally to sets; sets order their photos and may carry a video or audio story.

  4. Sync. Scheduled drain or Sync now. Photo originals are copied to durable Blob storage and stamped back (Blob Image URL); audio stories are transcribed and their files moved to Blob as part of the same run.

  5. Verify. On staging as an anonymous visitor: all three views render, a photo opens in the lightbox with its metadata, a set plays its media, and pending/rejected submissions are absent.

Fields the room reads

Section titled “Fields the room reads”

Photos table (content base) — the richest table on the platform:

Field Type Required Consumed by
Image attachment yes the photograph (live path; the served path uses the Blob copy)
Blob Image URL url stamped by sync the served image — never hand-edit
Caption long text recommended title + story (rich text beyond ~100 chars becomes the split layout)
Photographer text recommended the credit on plaque + lightbox
Room link → Rooms yes which room shows it
Moderation Status select yes only approved serves; submissions arrive pending
Source select yes for uploads visitor-submission drives the approval-mail flow
Submitted By / Submitted Email text uploads only credit + the thank-you mail
Approval Notified checkbox sync-managed prevents duplicate approval mails
People link → People optional speaker/subject facts, cross-room entities

Photo Sets: title, ordered Photos links, status, and optionally a video story (Vimeo + chapter sync) or audio story. Audio Stories: Audio File (MP3 preferred), narrator, Transcript (curator-written wins over auto-transcription), plus sync-managed fields (Transcription Status, Blob Audio URL, Blob Transcript URL, Processing Log) — never hand-edit the managed ones.