Style Guide

General

• scanning
  • scan images at 6000 pixels on the long edge. Save as TIFF and place in "Archives" Folder in Webpages Directory
  • Convert to .jpg so that it is 2500 pixels on long edge
  • scan text at 150 dpi, unless it has an illustration, then go with 2000-2500 pixels on long edge. Save as .jpg
  • scan everything again at high-resolution for the Archive drive. Aim for 6000 pixels on the long edge. Save as .tiff file (when you run the rake generate_derivatives command, it will generate .jpg versions of the file so you don't need to scan it a second time as a .jpg)

Harvester

• length of post and type of content: long, research-based
• number of photos: one or more
• length of content: two paragraphs or more
• sample topics: history of mining, logging, wilderness, women's history in Idaho, etc.
• linking to digital collections: ??
• examples of existing content: Mining Mondays, Oh Dam!, Women's Recreation Wednesday, Wilderness Wednesday
• tags: use the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus for image pages (i.e. when adding to the metadata csv) but we can make up whatever we want for the posts. Always use the plural version of a word. Only capitalize if it's a proper name. Add spaces to multi-word tags. Avoid tags that are unhelpful: Idaho, Moscow, University of Idaho, Special Collections, etc.
• home page written preview: make sure the first thing in a post is a paragraph summary of the post? so when a little bit of text previews on the home page, it looks good?

Tumblr

• length of post and type of content: short, photo-based
• number of photos: one
• length of content: one paragraph
• sample topics: national and university anniversaries, important and fun days (Statehood Day, National Pet Day, Pi Day, etc.), funny or interesting images
• linking to digital collection: after text of post, write: "Photo courtesy of [Collection Title], [box/folder number], [Object ID]" and embed links where appropriate
• examples of existing content: Flowery Fridays, Mountainous Mondays, Now and Then
• tags: anything