Active Development on this project has moved to CollectionBuilder-GH
https://github.com/uidaholib/pages-collection
A project to generate a free and simple digital collection site using gh-pages given:
- a CSV of collection metadata
- a folder of JPEG images or PDF documents
See Getting Started Docs for detailed information.
pages-collection is intended as a simple template for hands-on teaching about digital libraries.
It can be used in a workshop setting to take participants through digitization and metadata creation, to having a live collection site hosted on GitHub.
Similar learning experiences use Omeka or other DAMS/CMS platforms that are overkill for one off projects.
Although CMS feature familiar GUI administration interfaces, they are not simple to learn and customize.
pages-collection aims to be well documented and easy to configure by following the example.
A project in "minimal computing", it provides a depth of learning opportunities, allowing users to take complete ownership over the project and make their work open to the world.
Skillz:
- Git and GitHub basics
- Markdown, plaintext writing and content creation
- HTML, CSS, and JS literacy
- commandline literacy
- GitHub collaboration and project management
- Jekyll basics
- working in the Open, open source and open data
Note:
Since pages-collection uses gh-pages, it is only suitable for small collections, with lower resolution images.
GitHub repositories are limited to 1GB.
We prefer commonly understood formats (such as CSV spreadsheets over YAML), and convention over configuration (follow the example over learn all the options).
- Jekyll for gh-pages
- Layout using Bootstrap.
- jQuery
- Mapping using Leaflet.js
- Tables using DataTables
- Rich markup using Schema.org and Open Graph protocol standards.
Check out the Docs.