Creating and Modifying Exhibits

The Libraries currently uses Spotlight for exhibit curation. This document will explain how to create a new exhibit with the features that are currently in use.

Item and Item Curation

To import an item, you must use IIIF. While on the dashboard, go to the sidebar where it says “Items”. Go to “Add items”, then “IIIF URL”. The IIIF manifest should come from either OAKTrust or Fedora. Do not try to directly upload from the desktop, not even for the thumbnail and banner. It will not work.

A link from Fedora will look like this:

A link from OAKTrust will look like this:

You may also edit one of these manifests and upload to custom-iiif-manifests. This hosts the edited manifest on GitHub. The link will look like this:

Manifest Editing

To ensure that a multi-page item embedded in the Spotlight exhibit has its pages appear in pairs like a book or magazine, add the following code under the sequences element.

  • "viewingHint": "paged".

Standard Features and Widgets

Heading

This adds an <h2/>`with an embedded :code:`<p/> with text to the screen.

Text

This adds a block for text in <p/> tags.

List

This adds an unordered list.

Quote

This adds a block quote.

IFRAME

This allows you to embed an <iframe/> to pull content from another website.

Video

This allows you to add a <video/> canvas that points at a video file or a youtube video.

Embed + Text

This widget embeds a web resource and a text block to the left or right of it.

Horizontal Rule

Adds a horizontal divider to a page.

Uploaded Item Row

This widget displays uploaded items in a horizontal row. Optionally, you can add a heading and/or text to be displayed adjacent to the items.

Exhibit Item Features and Widgets

Browse Categories

This widget highlights browse categories. Each highlighted category links to the corresponding browse category results page.

Requires browse configuration.

Browse Group Categories

This widget displays all browse categories associated with a selected browse group as a horizontally-scrolling row. Each selected browse group is displayed as a separate row. Each displayed category in a group links to the corresponding browse category results page.

Requires browse configuration.

Saved Searches

This widget highlights saved searches. Each highlighted saved search links to the search results page generated by the saved search parameters. Any saved search listed on the Curation > Browse Categories page, whether published or not, can be highlighted as a saved search.

Requires exhibit-specific search fields.

Pages

This widget highlights pages from this exhibit. Each highlighted item links to the corresponding page.

Item Row

This widget displays exhibit items in a horizontal row. Optionally, you can add a heading and/or text to be displayed adjacent to the items.

Item Embed

This widget embeds exhibit items on a page. Optionally, you can add a heading and/or text to be displayed adjacent to the items.

Item Slideshow

This widget displays exhibit items in a static slideshow. The user will move between items in the slideshow using the field you select as the primary caption.

Item Grid

This widget displays exhibit items in a multi-row grid. Optionally, you can add a heading and/or text to be displayed adjacent to the items.

Search results

This widget displays a set of search results on a page. Specify a search result set by selecting an existing browse category. You can also select the view types that are available to the user when viewing the result set.

TAMU Widgets

WYSIWYG

Adds a WYSIWYG editor so you don’t need many elements listed above.