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    A quick guide for gathering the right information about your VITA Collection & subscription for corresponding fields in the Heritage, Sport, Tourism, and Culture Industries' Annual Survey of Public Libraries 2021. Statistics are due April 30, 2022. Here's what counts: - The Number of Records in the collection - Your ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 multipage objects, PDFs, full text extraction, OCR processing, and pan-zoom page display. The manual is broken ...

    Guide to the metadata elements (fields) used in VITA templates, their recommended uses and examples for completing any field.

    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 ...

    This manual is specific to using the Timeline option as a panel format in the exhibits module. The Timeline uses the same content management system as the exhibits module, and the resulting Timeline display can be added as an Exhibit page/panel or can be embedded in another HTML-based screen.

    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.

    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 & ...

    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.

    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

    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.

    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.

    Quick guide to responding to requests for removal of personal information

    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 page images, and navigating between issues. The relabelling process can also be used for multipage items like books, ...

    In cultural heritage, we understand that you want to know when someone is using your digital resources, for your own statistics and impact assessment - and you want new users to be able to find the rest of your collections if they’re interested in what’s being shared. With the implementation ...

    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.