- Page layouts: classic (default), sidecar (player + chapters left, transcript alongside), and document (reading view with inline chapter headings and a sticky player). Global setting with per-site override.
- Placement setting (global + per-site): render the automatic public display before or after the page content.
- AI summary: new summarization pipeline stage (skipped and free unless
enabled), editable on the review screen, written to a configurable
metadata property on the parent item at publish and removed at
unpublish. New
summarycolumn andsummarizingstatus. A Generate/Regenerate button on the review screen runs just the summary pass for interviews processed before the feature was enabled. - The pipeline now refuses to reprocess published transcripts.
- Multi-media items: the item's summary property is now rebuilt from all
currently-published sibling transcripts (one value per interview, in
media order) — publishing or unpublishing one interview never clobbers
another's summary. Theme media embeds AND media-list entries are hidden
for media represented by the oral history viewer (wrapper-level, per
media). Share/cite links are media-scoped (
#t=125-m73) so deep links on multi-interview items target the right player; plain#t=links are honored by the first player only. Topic-page group headings append the media title when an item carries several interviews. - CRITICAL FIX: publishing no longer wipes the resource's other metadata.
Partial API updates with
collectionAction: replaceremove every value not in the payload (core ValueHydrator behavior); both the extracted-text write (media) and the summary write (item) now useclear_property_values+append, which replaces only the target property. Installs that published with the broken versions should check affected items/media for missing values (titles especially).
Oral Archivist
Releases
1.6.0
Sep 22, 2026