[Dspace-general] digital image collections

[Walker, David]

I agree.  Is this something the DSpace organization might host?  Or maybe we just add links to a wiki?

--Dave

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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] digital image collections

Hi all,

It would be nice to have a place to share open DSpace Manakin Themes ...
Nowadays you have to reinvent the wheel each time :(

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2009/4/1 Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca>:
> 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
>
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> David Walker
> Library Web Services Manager
> California State University
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>
> 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
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> Trexler Library
>
> Muhlenberg College
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>
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>
> chodge-bodart at muhlenberg.edu
>
>
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