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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 template letter for describing the scope of material and intent to digitize and/or make publicly accessible and obtaining written permission from the copyright holder.

    Bringing together digital newspapers and index records from Ajax, Clarington, Oshawa, Scugog and Whitby.

    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

    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.

    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, ...

    Quick guide to responding to requests for removal of personal information

    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.

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

    A short description on how to activate and customize the "order reproductions" option offered on the full size image display. Part of Site management activities

    Part of agency management, this manual will walk you through reviewing and approving comments, reviewing records with only generic thumbnails, reviewing and correcting links associated with your records. Contributions and Testimonials are also action Items, but have separate manuals.

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

    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 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.

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

    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.

    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.

    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 & ...