Repository to be used during the 2020 & 2021 ALA Core Classroom Series.
Metadata for this demo collection can be downloaded here:
The digital objects described by the metadata (including image files, pdfs, and mp3s) are already in this repository (in the objects directory), so you don't need to upload them.
Two demo metadata sets are available for use as you're using this demo collection. Both are drawn from the following University of Idaho digital collections:
To use the Watkins material, download this spreadsheet
The Watkins objects are already in the repository, in the objects directory.
Click the green "use this template" button above to get started. Create your template repository, then add the metadata and configure the repository to fit your collection and settings.
See Getting Started Docs for detailed information, or follow the CollectionBuilder-GH tutorial videos. Note:
Since collectionbuilder-gh uses GitHub Pages, it is only suitable for small collections, with lower resolution images. GitHub repositories are limited to 1GB.
collectionbuilder-gh 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.
collectionbuilder-gh aims to be well documented and easy to configure by following the example, with the potential to scaffold learning of a multitude of transferable digital and data skills.
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.
Learn about:
- 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
- digital libraries concepts such as "collections as data", minimal computing, data-driven design
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 GitHub Pages
- Layout using Bootstrap.
- jQuery
- Mapping using Leaflet.js
- Tables using DataTables
- Galleries using lightGallery
- Simple lunr search
- Rich markup using Schema.org and Open Graph protocol standards.
Check out the CollectionBuilder-GH tutorial for how to get started, or visit the CollectionBuilder home for more information.
If you are interested in using CollectionBuilder, or are already using it, please drop us a line ([email protected]) since we would love to learn more about its use in the wild. There are also currently opportunities to collaborate on CollectionBuilder.
CollectionBuilder documentation and general web content is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
This license does NOT include any objects or images used in digital collections, which may have individually applied licenses described by a "rights" field.
CollectionBuilder code is licensed MIT.
This license does not include external dependencies included in the assets/lib directory, which are covered by their individual licenses.