About GH-Pages Collection

Active Development on this project has moved to CollectionBuilder-GH

This site is generated using pages-collection, a project to generate a free and simple digital collection using gh-pages from:

pages-collection is intended as a simple template for hands-on teaching about digital libraries. It can be used in a workshop setting to take participants through digitization and metadata creation, to having a live collection site hosted on GitHub.

Similar learning experiences use Omeka or other DAMS/CMS platforms that are overkill for one off projects. Although CMS feature familiar GUI administration interfaces, they are not simple to learn and customize. pages-collection aims to be well documented and easy to configure by following the example. A project in “minimal computing”, it provides a depth of learning opportunities, allowing users to take complete ownership over the project and make their work open to the world.

Technical

This website was created by UI Library’s Digital Initiatives using the open source static site generator Jekyll. The basic frame work is created using Bootstrap and jQuery. Metadata visualizations are created using DataTables and Leafletjs. Document metadata is exposed using Schema.org and Open Graph protocol standards.

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Last build date: 2019-09-10.