Laura, is it an option to migrate the literary content into a TEI form? You could consolidate the objects that make up a single text into a single complex object, with embedded metadata (at whatever level you like), and then wheel in some existing TEI content management / presentation system. On 29 January 2015 at 10:11, Laura Buchholz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The short answer is that what we have right now is document-type items > (pages of books or letters, front and back of a map), but that might grow > in the future to include video or multiple views of art objects. The > documents are the main concern right now. > > Most of our compound objects in contentdm are really just items that are > made up of multiple files (10 tiffs corresponding to 10 pages of a book), > so those are easy enough to deal with in the new system--there is no part > level metadata to display. There are others where there was a desire to > provide a method of navigation based on titles, similar to bookmarks in a > pdf, so that navigation has to go somewhere. And still others (a couple of > rare books) where there are keywords or descriptions that are unique to > each page, and it is necessary to display that page level metadata. There > might also be something like a literary magazine, where there is a desire > to record the titles and authors of each poem/story/etc and to display that > info somewhere. We have one publication where we crop out articles to add > as single items, in addition to adding and displaying the whole issue. It > can get tedious to crop those. > > The easiest would be to just avoid recording part level metadata, or to add > it in the main record, but since it is provided now in the current system, > we can't really take it away. And cropping things is no fun. > > Thanks! > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > The best way to display compound objects really depends on the nature of > > the compound objects. For example, the optimal display for a book stored > as > > a compound object will be very different than an art object taken from > > various vantage points or a dataset. Likewise, whether you can get away > > with not creating/displaying metadata for components of compound objects > > depends on the use case. If you could say a bit more about what kind of > > compound objects you have and what system(s) you are migrating to, people > > could probably give you better advice. > > > > kyle > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:43 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] > > > > > > > > > -- > Laura Buchholz > Digital Assets Specialist > Reed College > 503-517-7629 > [log in to unmask] >