Exhibits Site
Harvard has released the Colonial North America spotlight collection! See a description of the collection here:
And here is a link to the live site:
http://colonialnorthamerica.library.harvard.edu
The site includes extensive user interface customization, and metadata extensions for sub-collections. The site includes an embedded Mirador viewer for displaying the over 9000 digitized documents in the collection, including over 200,000 page images.
The item metadata for the site was imported from the Harvard LibraryCloud metadata hub using a new OAI-PMH data harvester for Spotlight that has been released as open source at https://github.com/harvard-library/spotlight-oaipmh-resources
Who's Who Data
- Institution
- Who are the lead contact(s) this community can reach out to for questions?
- Service community - Wendy Gogel (wendy_gogel at harvard dot edu), Vanessa Venti (vanessa_venti at harvard dot edu)
- Technical - Randy Stern (randy_stern at harvard dot edu)
- How long have you been using Spotlight?
- Since 2017
- How many people are on your Spotlight team?
- List or number of published Spotlight 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?
- Harvard has 19 collections built in an older Virtual Collection platform that we intend to migrate to Spotlight
- Have you used Spotlight to migrate older digital collections? If so, what were the lessons learned?
- Yes, Colonial North America was formerly an Omeka system
- What Spotlight features do you use?
- All
- 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)
- What are your biggest barriers to using or expanding Spotlight use at your institution?
