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 > 2400 Chew St. > Allentown, PA 18104 > (484) 664-3575 > [email protected] > > "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." > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.34/2032 - Release Date: 03/31/09 > 06:02:00 > > _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
