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 <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 11:07 am Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] digital image collections To: [email protected] > 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: [email protected] [dspace-general- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > [[email protected] > > ] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:23 PM > > To: Catherine Hodge-Bodart > > Cc: [email protected] > > 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 <[email protected]> > > Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:33 pm > > Subject: [Dspace-general] digital image collections > > To: [email protected] > > > >> 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 > >> [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 > > __________________________ > Andrew Hankinson, BMus, MLIS > PhD Student > Distributed Digital Music Archives and Libraries Lab > Schulich School of Music > McGill University > > [email protected] > (H) 514.692.6726 > (W) 514.398.4535 x0300 > (F) 514.398.8061 > > http://www.transientstudent.net > > > > >
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