[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Embedded digital objects/thumbnails in finding aids

Tue May 3 20:16:41 EDT 2016

Harvard’s OASIS has had embedded thumbnails for a number of years. EAD uses <daogrp> to associate a URN for a thumbnail with the URN of the linked object, and our stylesheet converts the EAD to html. Example finding aid: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua04009 (cntrl-f search for “browse album 1” to see the links in situ in the finding aid).

Here’s some HTML...

<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:2786485?buttons=y" target="_blank">

      <img src="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:2786489?height=250&width=250" alt="[thumbnail: resource-1]"></a>

<br>

<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:2786485?buttons=y" target="_blank">Browse Album 1.</a>

... which is created by our stylesheet transforming the following EAD:

     <daogrp xlink:type="extended">

      <resource xlink:label="start" xlink:type="resource"></resource>

      <daoloc xlink:href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:2786489?height=250&width=250" xlink:label="resource-1" xlink:type="locator"></daoloc>

      <arc xlink:from="start" xlink:show="embed" xlink:to="resource-1" xlink:type="arc"></arc>

      <daoloc xlink:href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:2786485?buttons=y" xlink:label="resource-2" xlink:type="locator">

       <daodesc> <p>Browse Album 1.</p> </daodesc>

      </daoloc>

      <arc xlink:from="start" xlink:show="new" xlink:to="resource-2" xlink:type="arc"></arc>

     </daogrp>

In the case above, a still image is used as the embedded link to the page-turned digital object, but the kind of object in the target is really irrelevant.

I’m not entirely happy about the non-kosher use we have made of the <daodesc> but it works for now.

We are currently migrating our EAD to ArchivesSpace. I think will be making use of “file versions” (this is a bit of a misnomer, they aren’t versions of the same file) as the place to record the URNs—using one for the image that will be embedded and another as a target of the link.

Kate

Kate Bowers

Collections Services Archivist for Metadata, Systems, and Standards

Harvard University Archives

kate_bowers at harvard.edu<mailto:megan_sniffin-marinoff at harvard.edu>

voice: (617) 998-5238

fax: (617) 495-8011

web: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:archives

Twitter: @k8_bowers

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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Embedded digital objects/thumbnails in finding aids

Hi All,

Apologies – my enquiry isn’t  strictly related to ArchiveSpace, but I was just wondering how many other organisations are looking at implementing or have implemented embedded digital objects or thumbnails in their finding aid display?  I’m aware of the work Duke have done on this, and NLA here in Australia have also done a lot of work around their display but I wondered if many other organisations were going down this path, and what additional software is being used to support it?

Cheers,

Emily

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