[Dspace-general] digital image collections

[John Davison]

Hi Catherine,
Many of the collections we are working on at the Ohio Digital Resource 
Commons are of an historical/archival nature, and many of those are 
image collections. Like you, we are committed to creating both an 
institutional repository and a digital media center. To accomplish both 
goals, we've found it necessary to add some small features to DSpace to 
handle image presentation a bit more gracefully for the end user.

Here are a few examples of image collections:

Bowling Green State University's Historic Collection of the Great Lakes 
-- Lightobx pop-up functionality
http://drc.library.bgsu.edu/handle/2374.BGSU/3

Wright State University's collection documenting the invention of the 
airplane -- Lightbox pop-up functionality.
http://core.libraries.wright.edu/handle/2374.WSU/827

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center -- Image Pan & Zoom functions.
http://drc.ohiolink.edu/handle/2374.OX/19792

I hope this helps,
John Davison
Ohio Digital Resource Commons




Catherine Hodge-Bodart wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm new to this list so please forgive me for asking an obvious 
> question. My institution is considering using DSpace as both a 
> repository of scholarly work and for the library's digital image 
> collections. In poking around at the web sites of libraries that use 
> DSpace, I've not found many that use it for their digital collections 
> (or I somehow managed to miss them!). I spoke with someone whose 
> library uses DSpace for scholarly papers, but uses ContentDM as the 
> platform for digital collections, and that seems to be the norm.
> Is DSpace an appropriate platform for our library's digital 
> collections of documents and images such as photographs? What are the 
> strengths and weaknesses of DSpace compared to, say, ContentDM?
> Thank you in advance for you help.
> Cathy
> Cathy Hodge-Bodart
> Cataloging & Metadata Librarian
> Trexler Library
> Muhlenberg College
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> Allentown, PA 18104
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> chodge-bodart at muhlenberg.edu
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