Media Lists and Sequential Scan Section Lists

[JulieWinchester]

Two new kinds of media collections in addition to already-existing Projects and Teams: Media Lists and Sequential Section Lists.

Media Lists are like a playlist for media - a way to gather related media together, even for public media that you don't manage. This is different from a Project in that Projects are deeply related to access sharing over media. In other words, you can't add media to a Project unless you can edit that media, and access to that media is then shared with any other members of that Project. Media Lists don't interact with access at all. If you can see a media, you can add it to a Media List. You can allow other users to see your Media Lists, but this doesn't give them any access to media beyond what they would have otherwise. Think of Media Lists as playlists that allow you to created themed assortments of public media for other users to appreciate. Media Lists could be used for class lesson plans, research samples with data contributed by many different data managers, or simply lists of media joined by a theme like "whales" or "skulls."

Sequential Section Lists build on our recent support for media representing scans of microscope slides. Sequential Section Lists allow you to group media that represent successive, sequential sections of a single specimen. A good example of a sequential section list might include multiple media, where each media is a slide of a cryoslice, where all the crysolices are from the same specimen. Or a series of histology slides where each media is a large plate scan of many different slides, but all the slides again represent longitudinal sections of a specimen. Sequential Section Lists are in fact a specialized kind of Media Lists, and inherit all of the specific features described for Media Lists as well.