Digital Exhibits vs Collections (was Open Source Digital Archives Displays)

[Tom Cramer]

Erin,

Integrating digital collections (discovery & delivery), special collections finding aids and exhibits is also near and dear to our hearts at Stanford. We're currently using a mixture of Blacklight, XTF and Drupal, and we see a lot of promise in augmenting Blacklight with both finding aids and "exhibit-y" features so it can support all three functions in the same stack and on the same data store. 

Notre Dame has done some very good work in extending Blacklight to support items such as collection landing pages, customized views and customized facets in a plugin they are calling Atrium. From their ticketing system at https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/HYGALL: 

A Blacklight plugin for managing and creating collections and digital exhibits of content exposed through Blacklight and Solr. It supports creating multiple collections quickly while each can focus on a subset or all content within a Solr database. Within each collection you can add multiple exhibits. Each exhibit supports a dynamically generated browse experience through selected browsable facets, with ability to add descriptive text and feature sources at each level of the browse navigation.

And Jason Ronallo at NCSU has done similar good work focusing on delivering digital collections and special collections via Blacklight: see http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/ and browse about. 

We're currently planning to follow in both their footsteps. This will should help us achieve several benefits, including search, faceted browsing, hierarchical browsing, collection / component commentary, and customizable display layer for UI tweaks. And of course we'd get the side benefits of having exhibits and finding aids in our overarching discovery layer, as well as avoiding duplication of data, and reducing the number of stand-alone applications (and platforms) we have to support. 

- Tom

 | Tom Cramer
 | Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director 
 | Digital Library Systems & Services
 | Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources
 | Stanford University
 | tcramer at stanford.edu


On Nov 28, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Erin R White/FS/VCU wrote:

> While we're on the topic of digital exhibits:
> 
> Is anyone else grappling with finding a graceful unified way to showcase 
> and manage online exhibits and digital collections?
> 
> For us,
> 
> Exhibits = curated items representing a larger physical collection, lots 
> of text, sometimes in tandem with a physical exhibit (think Omeka)
> 
> Digital collections = entire collections as-is, usually lots of items, 
> little to no accompanying text (think CONTENTdm)
> 
> 
> We've got two separate special collections and archives departments in two 
> libraries, a digital collections website, a digital exhibits page and our 
> ETDs, all in separate silos. We've been trying to envision a single portal 
> into all of our unique offerings. If y'all have seen good examples of 
> this, please send along.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Erin White
> Web Systems Librarian, VCU Libraries
> 804-827-3552 | erwhite at vcu.edu | www.library.vcu.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From:   "Slavinski, Kate" <slavinskik1 at OWLS.SOUTHERNCT.EDU>
> To:     WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Date:   11/28/2011 12:00 PM
> Subject:        Re: [WEB4LIB] Open Source Digital Archives Displays
> Sent by:        Web technologies in libraries <WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> 
> 
> 
> Lauren,
> Thank you for sharing!  It looks like Omeka offers a nice way to display 
> photographs.
> Sincerely,
> Kate Slavinski
> 
> From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of 
> Stokes Lauren P. [stokesl at LVCCLD.ORG]
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:50 AM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Open Source Digital Archives Displays
> 
> The State of Nevada’s digital project uses an open source software call 
> Omeka.  UNLV set it up and maintains it on their server.  You can view it 
> at http://omeka.library.unlv.edu/omeka/ The state committee looked at 
> several alternatives but we like this one the best.
> 
> Lauren Stokes
> Virtual Library Manager
> Las Vegas - Clark County Library District Windmill Library/Service Center 
> 7060 W. Windmill Ln.
> Las Vegas, NV 89113
> 702.507.6302
> stokesl at lvccld.org
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> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On 
> Behalf Of Slavinski, Kate
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 6:02 AM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Open Source Digital Archives Displays
> 
> I am in the process of creating a digital display of old photographs for 
> the archives where I work, and I was wondering if anyone can share some 
> good experiences with open source software for digital photograph 
> displays.
> Thank you for your help,
> Kate Slavinski
> MLS Student
> Southern Connecticut State University
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