<BODY><P>This digital images collection at <A href="http://cushing.tamu.edu/collections/images/" target=1>http://cushing.tamu.edu/collections/images/</A> actually does use streetprint if you see their website at <A href="http://cushing.tamu.edu/collections/images/Pages/about_streetprint.php?s=about">http://cushing.tamu.edu/collections/images/Pages/about_streetprint.php?s=about</A> . Thanks Andrew.</P>
<P>janet<BR><BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson@mail.mcgill.ca> <BR>Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 11:07 am <BR>Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] digital image collections <BR>To: dspace-general@mit.edu <BR><BR>> It looks like it uses "Streetprint Engine" <BR>> (http://www.streetprint.org/engine.php <BR>> ), which is OAI Compliant. <BR>> <BR>> I wonder if streetprint could be used as a front-end to a Dspace <BR>> repository... <BR>> <BR>> On 1-Apr-09, at 11:35 AM, Walker, David wrote: <BR>> <BR>> >> http://cushing.tamu.edu/collections/images/ this one uses the xml <BR>> >> user interface I believe <BR>> > <BR>> > Perhaps someone from Texas A&M can correct me here, but I don't <BR>> > think this collection is using Manakin. Just looking at the <BR>> URLs, I <BR>> > see references to .php files, for example, which Manakin does <BR>> not <BR>
> > use. Too bad, really, it is IMO the nicest example listed so far. <BR>> > <BR>> > This is a timely topic for us, so would love to have people post <BR>> <BR>> > more examples. <BR>> > <BR>> > It seems to me, too, that the community could come-up with a <BR>> > "digital images collection" theme for Manakin -- or least some <BR>> XSLT <BR>> > templates that could be imported into a theme. Something more <BR>> > geared toward the display of digital images. That wouldn't be <BR>> all <BR>> > that hard, really. <BR>> > <BR>> > --Dave <BR>> > <BR>> > ================== <BR>> > David Walker <BR>> > Library Web Services Manager <BR>> > California State University <BR>> > http://xerxes.calstate.edu <BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> > From: dspace-general-bounces@mit.edu [dspace-general- <BR>
> > bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of janet.todwong@washburn.edu <BR>> [janet.todwong@washburn.edu <BR>> > ] <BR>> > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:23 PM <BR>> > To: Catherine Hodge-Bodart <BR>> > Cc: dspace-general@mit.edu <BR>> > Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] digital image collections <BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> > Cathy, <BR>> > Here are some image databases in DSpace that I have come across: <BR>> > http://cushing.tamu.edu/collections/images/ this one uses the <BR>> xml <BR>> > user interface I believe <BR>> > http://images.swinburne.edu.au/ this one is good too. <BR>> > What I know about the difference is that with dspace you need to <BR>> be <BR>> > a technolgy person or have a technology staff who can configure <BR>> what <BR>> > you need whereas with contentdm all the technology stuff is <BR>> already <BR>
> > done for you and all you have to do is make the best use of it <BR>> to <BR>> > represent your collection. <BR>> > janet <BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> > ----- Original Message ----- <BR>> > From: Catherine Hodge-Bodart <CHodge-Bodart@muhlenberg.edu> <BR>> > Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:33 pm <BR>> > Subject: [Dspace-general] digital image collections <BR>> > To: dspace-general@mit.edu <BR>> > <BR>> >> Hello all, <BR>> >> <BR>> >> I'm new to this list so please forgive me for asking an obvious <BR>> >> question. My institution is considering using DSpace as both a <BR>> >> repository of scholarly work and for the library's digital image <BR>> >> collections. In poking around at the web sites of libraries <BR>> that use <BR>> >> DSpace, I've not found many that use it for their digital <BR>
> collections>> (or I somehow managed to miss them!). I spoke with <BR>> someone whose <BR>> >> library uses DSpace for scholarly papers, but uses ContentDM as the <BR>> >> platform for digital collections, and that seems to be the norm. <BR>> >> <BR>> >> Is DSpace an appropriate platform for our library's digital <BR>> >> collectionsof documents and images such as photographs? What are <BR>> >> the strengths and <BR>> >> weaknesses of DSpace compared to, say, ContentDM? <BR>> >> <BR>> >> Thank you in advance for you help. <BR>> >> <BR>> >> Cathy <BR>> >> <BR>> >> <BR>> >> Cathy Hodge-Bodart <BR>> >> Cataloging & Metadata Librarian <BR>> >> Trexler Library <BR>> >> Muhlenberg College <BR>> >> 2400 Chew St. <BR>> >> Allentown, PA 18104 <BR>> >> (484) 664-3575 <BR>
> >> chodge-bodart@muhlenberg.edu <BR>> >> <BR>> >> <BR>> >> "Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through <BR>> >> hell." <BR>> >> —William Carlos Williams' intro to Alan Ginsberg's "Howl and Other <BR>> >> Poems." <BR>> >> <BR>> > _______________________________________________ <BR>> > Dspace-general mailing list <BR>> > Dspace-general@mit.edu <BR>> > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general <BR>> <BR>> __________________________ <BR>> Andrew Hankinson, BMus, MLIS <BR>> PhD Student <BR>> Distributed Digital Music Archives and Libraries Lab <BR>> Schulich School of Music <BR>> McGill University <BR>> <BR>> andrew.hankinson@mail.mcgill.ca <BR>> (H) 514.692.6726 <BR>> (W) 514.398.4535 x0300 <BR>> (F) 514.398.8061 <BR>> <BR>> http://www.transientstudent.net <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> </P>
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