Spotlight and Digital Collections at the Texas A&M University Libraries.
Exhibits Site
Collections at Texas A&M University - this is the Digital Collections home page which will link deeper to collections and exhibits as they come online. Our current test area for exhibits is Spotlight-pre.library.tamu.edu.
Local Customizations
The Library is developing guidelines for developing digital collections, including exhibits. At this time, our focus is on collections and collection management.
Who's Who Data
- Institution
- Who are the lead contact(s) this community can reach out to for questions?
- Service Community: Michael W. Bolton
- Development: William Welling
- How long have you been using Spotlight?
- Since 2016, in development, testing and evaluation
- How many people are on your Spotlight team?
- Service team: Service manager
- Development team: This varies based on the Sprint
- List or number of published Spotlight exhibits
- As of April 2018, we only have our test and development collections/exhibits.
- Have you used other digital collections platforms at your institution such as Omeka? If so, do you maintain more than one digital collection platform?
- We have been using DSpace for digital collections and have made extensive modifications to the system to support this effort. We have also used Flickr
- Have you used Spotlight to migrate older digital collections? If so, what were the lessons learned?
- Yes. More information on this coming.
- What Spotlight features do you use?
- Most features, including adding a locally developed Widget for text formatting. We do not support logons by the community or bookmarks at this time, but we do use most of the other features.
- What features would you like the community to develop or plan to develop yourself? (Gathered here so this community can help developers across institutions with coordination)
- We are working this through the Spotlight Services and Collections Community and support the items included in the brainstorming and survey documents.
- What are your biggest barriers to using or expanding Spotlight use at your institution?
- We are carefully crafting collection and exhibit policies and we feel it important to have these procedures in place prior to opening up the system for collections and exhibits.
Notable Exhibits
- We have several customers in the Libraries that would like to develop collections and I will list them here as we work out the details.
Upcoming Events
- An exhibit of Alice in Wonderland images.
Notes, Comments, Observations, other information to share
- Spotlight is part of a much larger Digital Asset Management Ecosystem, or DAME as we call it. A diagram of the DAME is below. The DAME represents an aggressive, comprehensive approach to managing digital assets of all times, from images to audio/video.