User permissions

Some actions on Arkindex require the user to have certain permissions. These permissions can be managed by instance administrators, and users can see them in the Permissions tab in their user profile.

Permissions tab of the user profile

Can upload images

Provides access to the image upload API endpoint, which allows to import local files into Arkindex.

Can create IIIF images

Provides access to the IIIF import API endpoints, which are required to import IIIF manifests into Arkindex or to import files from an S3 bucket.

Can import files from S3

Provides access to the S3 ingestion API endpoints, which are required to import files from an S3 bucket.

This permission will only allow to start S3 imports. The Can create IIIF images permission will also be required to create images from this bucket.

Can validate images

Allows this user to specify an image width and height manually when importing an IIIF image through the API.

This will cause Arkindex to create the image immediately and delay the image validation process until later, instead of requesting image information from the IIIF server. This can offer a significant performance improvement for large imports of images when the images come from a trusted IIIF server and have already been validated as compatible with Arkindex.

This is not used by any import process within Arkindex itself, and is only meant for advanced use cases where experienced users can closely monitor and validate their imports, often in cooperation with administrators.

If the Can create IIIF images permission has not been granted, this has no effect.

Instance administrators must also enable the Allow external validation mode on the trusted IIIF servers through the administration interface.

Can create workers and worker versions

Allows this user to create new workers and worker versions.

Can manage workers

Allows this user to update or archive existing workers.

In Arkindex Enterprise Edition only, administrator access to these workers will also be required, and this permission will also be required to update a worker’s memberships.