VITA How-To Manuals

    Anyone with level 3 security can see and manage agency screens in VITA as well as any action items. With different subscriptions come different options within agency management. Use this guide to nav

    One of the features of VITA is the ability to create “groups” of records. Creating "groups" facilitates better collection management, scoped search queries and result sets, and will prove invaluable

    If you're working with full-run newspapers - whether you are doing it in-house or have had a collection ingested - this manual helps explain how to add and manage Newspaper Parent Publication records

    The contribution module is a tool for soliciting, gathering and displaying stories of and from your community. This manual will show you how to configure your Contribution module, and display and sho

   

    VITA allows you to upload and manage the variety of complex text objects you might find in your collections for better discovery and display. Use this manual to walk through the process of uploading

    Contributing organizations that use VITA need a designated site administrator. The site administrator is responsible for: Customizing site graphics Maintaining and updating site and public interface

    Want to add a record to VITA but don’t have a digital file for it? No problem. Build records without having to upload a digital file. Great for clippings and articles, or to establish records you wan

    If you need to relabel the page numbers or section numbers for a newspaper issue, this should help with quick tips for navigating to the issue in question, identifying supplements, deleting duplicate

    The Subjects Checklist allows you to review all subjects assigned to your agency records and strategically update or remove those terms to help clean the thesaurus and enable better aggregation of yo

    Planning to add your own custom Domain Name / custom URL to your VITA site? This guide will show you how.

    How to write queries to add to your Library or other organizational catalogue system to return scoped search results from your VITA collection along with your other catalogue items.

    A Quick Tips infographic about how to add the Copyright holder name to serial publication content that is still under Copyright

    For instructions on using the Timeline panel option, see the Timeline Feature manual

    Master the basics of how to add and manage records in your VITA collection You have the option of downloading the complete manual, or searching for specific topics by chapter or keyword: Getting Star

    Part of agency management, this manual will walk you through reviewing and approving comments and user contributions.

   

    A Metadata Application Profile for describing vessels with the VITA Toolkit Vessels Database

    Enhance your collection by adding oral histories and other audio features. The manual is broken down into the following sections Add “hero shot” or image to establish audio record Add Audio file(s) A

    How to create template records and upload batches of image files.