(This didn't get much traction on dspace-tech, so I'm trying again here.) Hello all,
At Ohio State we have been running Manakin for about a year now, which we switched to after having used the JSP interface for many years. One of the key reasons that we made the switch was the potential to create themes which may be applied individually to certain communities and collections. We have had some success in this. For example, we created a "gallery" theme that we applied to some image collections.[1] However, we would like to do more. As such, we are interested in what other institutions are doing. Here are some of the things we would like to know: 1. If you have made use of themes for individual communities or collections, how so? Do you use themes for styling for a particular community, e.g. branding, color, font? Do you use themes to present a particular content type in a way that is specific to some collection? 2. Have there been things that you wanted to do, but proved too difficult to implement? Obviously time and budget constraints emerge, but had you encountered other unforeseen barriers to development? 3. Has the capacity to create themes been a selling point for your repository? What types of things have you found that communities would want in a theme? We're looking for examples of how people have used this capability, so if you have, please share a link! We've been looking at many DSpace instances, and it appears that theming individual communities or collections is a rare phenomenon. We would greatly appreciate any discussions that may develop from these questions. Thank you, Brian Stamper The Ohio State University Libraries Scholarly Resources Integration 320 Science and Engineering Library 175 West 18th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 (614) 247-8415 The Knowledge Bank at OSU https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/ [1] Some nice examples of our gallery theme in use: The Steven Enich Serbian Orthodox Culture Slide Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37112 John H. Glenn Archives Photo Gallery: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/50311 Ukrainian Immigration to Columbus, Ohio: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36653 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
