Hi Nicholas,
The Mirage2 theme is a leap forward in terms of better themes for your
users, it looks better, and its mobile responsive. The code is broken up a
bit more, that someone trying to customize the code base has a bit better
of chance to do something with it.
Here's a writeup we made at Ohio State about the themes we had been working
on customizing:
https://github.com/osulibraries/DSpace/wiki/XMLUI-Customizations-to-Themes
Also, at Longsight, we try to use stock / opensource DSpace, but
occasionally our frontend themes become too customized to contribute back.
Here are some of the changes we've made.
Image gallery style browse (giant thumbnails)
http://archive.dennishistsoc.org/
"Show File" pops up a modal to view the PDF within the item page:
http://archive.dennishistsoc.org/handle/10766/14090
Video: https://trydspace.longsight.com/handle/123456789/113
Audio: https://trydspace.longsight.com/handle/123456789/114
Book Reader:
https://trydspace.longsight.com/handle/123456789/77#page/1/mode/2up
(Braziliana, not Longsight) Book Reader:
http://www.brasiliana.usp.br/bbd/handle/1918/45000008071#page/14/mode/2up
Image: https://trydspace.longsight.com/handle/123456789/83
Then, metadata-only changes:
https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/handle/1951/48213
We've added some custom metadata fields to discovery / item-view, for
first-line-of-chorus.
So, while this doesn't encompass a full exhibit-builder type of theme for
DSpace, just a handful of presentation enhancements, its our generic start.
If memory serves, an old NITLE theme had done some tweaks to hide the links
to the parent collection/community. One thing on our radar would be a
previous/next item jump (I'm thinking flickr look and feel).
For other uses, some people have used Omeka to build an exhibit, but
there's no DSpace/OAI integration, so its a one-off project. So, I do think
it would be valuable for people to spend the effort enhancing themes for
various use cases, special collections exhibit in your case.
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Peter Dietz
Longsight
www.longsight.com
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Webb, Nicholas <[email protected]>
wrote:
> At the institutional archive where I'm the DSpace administrator, we use
> the stock XMLUI Reference theme with a few CSS changes to match our
> institutional brand guidelines. This is fine for our internal needs, but
> our instance recently started hosting a scanned collection of WW2 records
> which has attracted some public interest, and I've had complaints from
> patrons who find the interface difficult to use.
>
> I plan to create a custom theme for this collection and do some basic
> XMLUI tweaking to remove the interface elements that confuse novice users
> (multiple search boxes, separate browse menus for the collection and the
> entire repository), but I'm curious to see whether any institutions have
> done more extensive customization to create a special-collection-centric
> DSpace instance. I realize that online exhibits aren't the primary DSpace
> use case, but I'm interested to know what's possible.
>
> Thanks --
>
> Nicholas Webb
> Digital Archivist
>
> Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
> Box 1102 - One Gustave L. Levy Place
> New York, NY 10029-6574
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>
>
>
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