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      Some tips for promoting and providing access to your online newspaper collections. Based on analysis of traffic to many ODW client sites, these tips are a way to provide the easiest routes for users near and far to find and search your collections.

      See ODW's YouTube channel for the full, three-hour session

      A quick tips infographic for getting your site set up and important information included in your site set up.

      A brief overview of how to harness the power of VITA for your digital collections. Learn how to apply the right metadata for greater resource discovery, faceted browsing and more! This manual also includes a set of recommendations for creating digital objects for uploading into VITA. Contents: Part 1: Applying …

     

      This manual will show you how to quickly find and update specific records in your collection. Contents: Part 1: Getting Started 1.1 Logging in Part 2: Searching and Updating 2.1 Search or Update Records 2.2 Prooflist 2.3 Top 100 Records 2.4 Record ID Part 3: Advanced Search 3.1 Limiting Keyword …

      If you're working with full-run newspapers - whether you are doing it in-house or have had a collection ingested - this manual helps explain how to add and manage Newspaper Parent Publication records and Add Issues to those Publications.

      VITA allows you to upload and manage the variety of complex text objects you might find in your collections for better discovery and display. Use this manual to walk through the process of uploading multipage objects, PDFs, full text extraction, OCR processing, and pan-zoom page display. The manual is broken …

      Guide to the metadata elements (fields) used in VITA templates, their recommended uses and examples for completing any field.

      The contribution module is a tool for soliciting, gathering and displaying stories of and from your community. This manual will show you how to configure your Contribution module, and display and showcase your Contributed items.

      If you are indexing Newspaper content, like articles, clippings or Birth, Marriage and Death records, this manual will help you understand the best practices and workflows for adding those index records to your VITA collection and adding linked indexing for full-run newspaper discovery as well as non-Newspaper volumes.

      This manual is specific to using the Timeline option as a panel format in the exhibits module. The Timeline uses the same content management system as the exhibits module, and the resulting Timeline display can be added as an Exhibit page/panel or can be embedded in another HTML-based screen.

      Uploading JPEG2000 image files for multipage, reverse detail and full view displays as well as in batch uploads. Plus, how to add credit statements or logos on JP2 viewer.

      How to create template records and upload batches of image files.

      How to write queries to add to your Library or other organizational catalogue system to return scoped search results from your VITA collection along with your other catalogue items.