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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
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