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Our digital collections contain multi-page works of scanned imagery, single documents, and sometimes a combination of both. Below is an example of a letter containing both scanned images and document transcriptions. The descriptive of the metadata is applied to the parent work, but each accompanying binary file includes technical metadata. http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:97525 -David > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Laura Buchholz > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:44 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] examples of displays for compound objects and > metadata > > 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]