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      Presentation made to Ontario genealogical Society Toronto Branch in November 2017,illustrating some of the resources available through ODW and how to use them for searching family history.

      Used with permission from West Vancouver Memorial Public Library

      If you are managing existing or creating new content from full-run newspapers, then this video will provide a quick tour of the public display for newspaper content. We will walk through every step of data management as well as adding and describing publication records.

      Use template records to assign common metadata to different files . Naturally, this means you might want to upload a batch of image files as well. Learn how to create your templates, then use templates to apply common data to a series of image files and batch upload to your …

      Gather user contributions with this embedded module. Learn how it works and how to customize and broadcast your contribute module. Note: this is a live recording webinar from December 2016.

      Learn how to use the Virtual Exhibit feature to create virtual exhibits or tell stories about your collection content. We will walk you through exhibit styling, creating pages and layout options, choosing images and creating text blocks, adding links, external images, and more.

      Groups are a great way to aggregate and manage records in your collection. Want to create Virtual Exhibits, Slide Shows or Featured Groups for your VITA site? This video will show you how to add and manage groups to make collection management a breeze.

      Use additional web pages to provide information about your collection, project scope, policies or your organization. Learn how to customize and link to your web pages. Note: this is a live recording webinar from December 2016.

      My Favourites encourages your viewers bookmark items from across all VITA collections, organize them, add their own notes and tags, all within a secure environment. Learn about the public uses for the module and how to activate and customize the dialogue boxes for your users.

      Upload consistent branding and customize your presence in the RSS and Podcast environments.

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

      1. Adding audio files Enhance your digital collections by adding Oral Histories and other audio files. This webinar will show you how.

      Your designated site administrator is responsible for certain aspects of the VITA workflows and hosted site display. This introduction will walk through the customization options and branding workflows for your VITA site. Learning to manage and customize your site is good for any new site administrators and existing VITA users.

      1. Adding a record with a file A basic walk through of adding a new record and uploading an image file, plus a reverse view. Learn about uploading files, using alternate display options like reverse and detail views. 2. Adding descriptive data The most viewed part of your record is …

      This training video shows you the basics of using the digitized editions of the Waterloo Chronicle. Subtitles are available within the video player.

      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.

      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.

      Linked with permission from Cramahe Township Public Library

      A quick tips infographic on adding metadata to your records

      A quick tips infographic on the proper use of Media Types when assigning them to your files.