[Dspace-general] digital image collections

Wed Apr 1 13:26:37 EDT 2009

This digital images collection at http://cushing.tamu.edu/collections/images/ actually does use streetprint if you see their website at http://cushing.tamu.edu/collections/images/Pages/about_streetprint.php?s=about . Thanks Andrew.
janet

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca> 
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 11:07 am 
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] digital image collections 
To: dspace-general at mit.edu 

> It looks like it uses "Streetprint Engine" 
> (http://www.streetprint.org/engine.php 
> ), which is OAI Compliant. 
> 
> I wonder if streetprint could be used as a front-end to a Dspace 
> repository... 
> 
> On 1-Apr-09, at 11:35 AM, Walker, David wrote: 
> 
> >> http://cushing.tamu.edu/collections/images/ this one uses the xml 
> >> user interface I believe 
> > 
> > Perhaps someone from Texas A&M can correct me here, but I don't 
> > think this collection is using Manakin. Just looking at the 
> URLs, I 
> > see references to .php files, for example, which Manakin does 
> not 
> > use. Too bad, really, it is IMO the nicest example listed so far. 
> > 
> > This is a timely topic for us, so would love to have people post 
> 
> > more examples. 
> > 
> > It seems to me, too, that the community could come-up with a 
> > "digital images collection" theme for Manakin -- or least some 
> XSLT 
> > templates that could be imported into a theme. Something more 
> > geared toward the display of digital images. That wouldn't be 
> all 
> > that hard, really. 
> > 
> > --Dave 
> > 
> > ================== 
> > David Walker 
> > Library Web Services Manager 
> > California State University 
> > http://xerxes.calstate.edu 
> > 
> > 
> > From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [dspace-general- 
> > bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of janet.todwong at washburn.edu 
> [janet.todwong at washburn.edu 
> > ] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:23 PM 
> > To: Catherine Hodge-Bodart 
> > Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu 
> > Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] digital image collections 
> > 
> > 
> > Cathy, 
> > Here are some image databases in DSpace that I have come across: 
> > http://cushing.tamu.edu/collections/images/ this one uses the 
> xml 
> > user interface I believe 
> > http://images.swinburne.edu.au/ this one is good too. 
> > What I know about the difference is that with dspace you need to 
> be 
> > a technolgy person or have a technology staff who can configure 
> what 
> > you need whereas with contentdm all the technology stuff is 
> already 
> > done for you and all you have to do is make the best use of it 
> to 
> > represent your collection. 
> > janet 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Catherine Hodge-Bodart <CHodge-Bodart at muhlenberg.edu> 
> > Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:33 pm 
> > Subject: [Dspace-general] digital image collections 
> > To: dspace-general at mit.edu 
> > 
> >> 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 
> >> collectionsof 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 
> >> 2400 Chew St. 
> >> Allentown, PA 18104 
> >> (484) 664-3575 
> >> chodge-bodart at muhlenberg.edu 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> "Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through 
> >> hell." 
> >> —William Carlos Williams' intro to Alan Ginsberg's "Howl and Other 
> >> Poems." 
> >> 
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