Jill Craig, Western Maryland Regional Library.
CONTENTdm Users Group, Goucher College, May 2015
Jennifer K. Galas, University of Scranton
She described a campus with many potential
data collectors but no simple way for them to add to a database. They could
benefit from the diverse knowledge of the staff and inspire everyone to become
a content creator.
Jennifer created a google spreadsheet available
on the web for faculty and students to input. Then she utilized two javascripts
- Tabletop.js and handlebars.js to create custom scripts.
The result is a collection which includes
pages like Gannon Hall, University of Scranton
She also used mapsheet.js which would be
worth investigating to see if it is better than other mapping scripts.
I can see a non-centralized data entry
system making it easier for data to be entered in our various libraries or
counties.
Working with Text and PDFs – Geri Ingram
Users expect full-text
search-ability across the repository, but will also expect the data to be
linked. Linked
data will eventually provide the engine for new knowledge creation, for
Washington County’s data on Antietam to, in Geri’s term, “become visible in the
web-of-things” through worldcat and dpla.
Geri suggested using the metadata templates
at page level; compound object level and for PDFs. On the Website Configtool:
to suppress display of components of compound objects in search results, which
would mean a search would find a word in a compound object and not pull up
every single page. This is done by selecting pagetype = PDF
Materials commonly assembled as compound
objects would be Yearbooks, Papers, Postcards, Books.
Metadata can be at a page-level or object
level.
I need to try the post card option of a
compound object for the postcards we have that have information on the back of
the image.
The State Library of North Carolina
Digital Repository has some useful ideas to for making a site more usable
and user-friendly. It is a site I will look at again when my backlog is
reduced.
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