Islandora has a compound image model that allows for objects in the repository to be related to each other.  An example in the Islandora Foundation's sandbox:

  http://sandbox.islandora.ca/islandora/object/islandora%3A105

This is made up of two large image objects:

  http://sandbox.islandora.ca/islandora/object/islandora%3A103
  http://sandbox.islandora.ca/islandora/object/islandora%3A104

Through theming you can pick which metadata you want to appear on the collection object page.  By default, it displays the metadata of the first item.  Although the two component items are large images, there is not a restriction on the types of objects that can be related in a collection object, nor is there a limit on the number of objects that can be related to one collection object.


Peter

> On Jan 28, 2015, 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!


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