I agree. Is this something the DSpace organization might host? Or maybe we just add links to a wiki?
--Dave ================== David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University http://xerxes.calstate.edu ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo Borillo [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:39 AM To: Andrew Hankinson Cc: [email protected] 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 :( --- Salut, ==================================== Ricardo Borillo Domenech http://xml-utils.com 2009/4/1 Andrew Hankinson <[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] [[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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
