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    Customizing and configuring your My Favourites screens for end-user bookmarking.

    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.

    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.

    Uploading JPEG2000 image files for multipage, reverse detail and full view displays as well as in batch uploads. Plus, how to add credit statements or logos on JP2 viewer.

    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.

    A quick tips infographic on adding metadata to your records

    A quick tips infographic on the proper use of Media Types when assigning them to your files.

    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 when creating virtual exhibits when you want to showcase specific items in your collection. Groups also lets you customize the ...

    A brief overview of how to harness the power of VITA for your digital collections. Learn how to apply the right metadata for greater resource discovery, faceted browsing and more! This manual also includes a set of recommendations for creating digital objects for uploading into VITA. Contents: Part 1: Applying ...

    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 navigate to the features you want to manage including: Agency profile: Labels and addresses User accounts (Personnel) Image ...

    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 information Checking and approving comments, links, and other action items Acting as the main contact for OurDigitalWorld staff in re: site and/or toolkit news ...

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

    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) Adding & replacing chapters & chapter thumbnails Adding chapter-level transcription Adding full text transcription

    Use the Exhibits feature to create collections and stories to enhance your VITA site and its contents. The Exhibits Manual is broken down into the following sections: Add Or Update Exhibit Full Record Labels & Links Style Additional Styling Elements Add / Manage Content Page / Panel Management Adding & ...

    The Subjects Checklist is a new feature, released with the VITA 6.1 upgrade. This link 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 your collection items.

    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 your collection items.

    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 want to add to later.

    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 ...

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

    This manual will show you how to quickly find and update specific records in your collection. Contents: Part 1: Getting Started 1.1 Logging in Part 2: Searching and Updating 2.1 Search or Update Records 2.2 Prooflist 2.3 Top 100 Records 2.4 Record ID Part 3: Advanced Search 3.1 Limiting Keyword ...