Esme, Your examples are similar to what I am hoping for. Can you explain a little bit more what system you used for backend to store image URLs and Object descriptions? Sarah -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Esmé Cowles Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:14 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] examples of displays for compound objects and metadata Laura- At UCSD, we have complex objects which range from a flat list of files (e.g. page images): http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb59054559 all the way up to pretty involved hierarchy modeling a filesystem: http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb9796611k Many of these have a hierarchy with files attached, but not much metadata for the individual parts. But there are also some objects with more metadata for each part: http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb0479301d? -Esme > On 01/28/15, at 4:43 PM, Laura Buchholz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > We're migrating from CONTENTdm and trying to figure out how to display > compound objects (or the things formerly known as compound objects) > and metadata for the end user. Can anyone point me to really good > examples of displaying items like this, especially where the user can > see metadata for parts of the whole? I'm looking more for examples of > the layout of all the different components on the page (or pages) > rather than specific image viewers. Our new system is homegrown, so we > have a lot of flexibility in deciding where things go. > > We essentially have: > -the physical item (multiple files per item of images of text, plain > text, pdf) -metadata about the item -possibly metadata about a part of > the item (think title/author/subjects for a newspaper article within > the whole newspaper issue), of which the titles might be used for > navigation through the whole item. > > I think Hathi Trust has a good example of all these components coming > together (except viewing non-title metadata for parts), and I'm > curious if there are others. Or do most places just skip > creating/displaying any kind of metadata for the parts of the whole? > > Thanks for any help! > > -- > Laura Buchholz > Digital Assets Specialist > Reed College > 503-517-7629 > [log in to unmask]