Results

    A short video about planning and implementing digitization projects, including digitization specifications, community and collaboration, staffing, budgetary considerations, and more. See ODW's YouTube channel for the full, three-hour session

    Want to add videos to your collection? Have a youtube channel you want to link to your VITA site? This manual will show you how. Upload Thumbnail + “Heroshot” Upload videos Adding & Replacing chapter & Chapter image files Video transcription Embedding & Managing YouTube Videos Tips for adding video: ...

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

    If you are indexing Newspaper content, like articles, clippings or Birth, Marriage and Death records, this manual will help you understand the best practices and workflows for adding those index records to your VITA collection and adding linked indexing for full-run newspaper discovery as well as non-Newspaper volumes.

    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 showcase your Contributed items.

    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 and Add Issues to those Publications.

    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 Started Adding Records Creating Records in VITA Display Screen File/Technical Data Descriptive Data Geographic Data Administrative Data ...

    As members of the cultural heritage community, we want our collections and activities to reflect all people in our communities . Hosting a community scanning day is an interactive, participatory way to collect--and digitize--memories from our communities for the sake of documenting our own history. However, a lot of planning ...

    This training video shows you the basics of using the digitized editions of the Waterloo Chronicle. Subtitles are available within the video player.

    Your designated site administrator is responsible for certain aspects of the VITA workflows and hosted site display. This introduction will walk through the customization options and branding workflows for your VITA site. Learning to manage and customize your site is good for any new site administrators and existing VITA users.

    Upload consistent branding and customize your presence in the RSS and Podcast environments.

    My Favourites encourages your viewers bookmark items from across all VITA collections, organize them, add their own notes and tags, all within a secure environment. Learn about the public uses for the module and how to activate and customize the dialogue boxes for your users.

    1. Adding a record with a file A basic walk through of adding a new record and uploading an image file, plus a reverse view. Learn about uploading files, using alternate display options like reverse and detail views. 2. Adding descriptive data The most viewed part of your record ...

    1. Adding audio files Enhance your digital collections by adding Oral Histories and other audio files. This webinar will show you how.

    If you are managing existing or creating new content from full-run newspapers, then this video will provide a quick tour of the public display for newspaper content. We will walk through every step of data management as well as adding and describing publication records.

    Learn how to use the Virtual Exhibit feature to create virtual exhibits or tell stories about your collection content. We will walk you through exhibit styling, creating pages and layout options, choosing images and creating text blocks, adding links, external images, and more.

    Groups are a great way to aggregate and manage records in your collection. Want to create Virtual Exhibits, Slide Shows or Featured Groups for your VITA site? This video will show you how to add and manage groups to make collection management a breeze.

    Use template records to assign common metadata to different files . Naturally, this means you might want to upload a batch of image files as well. Learn how to create your templates, then use templates to apply common data to a series of image files and batch upload to your ...

    Gather user contributions with this embedded module. Learn how it works and how to customize and broadcast your contribute module. Note: this is a live recording webinar from December 2016.

    This series of on demand training videos will help guide you to harness the power of VITA for your digital collections. We cover everything from managing your site through to adding & managing records, adding newspapers and issues, streaming video and adding audio files, and more!