View the same images and metadata (Highlights from the Vassar College Costume Collection) in several different applications. This has been an experiment to explore different tools for collection management, public searches, and virtual exhibitions. Each demo shows 8 objects from the collection, supported by a total of 43 jpeg images (including photos and scanned documents) and 1 QTVR:

Here's a screencast with an overview of this experiment-

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9XQ0NIR11ZSV1eXF5aUlVQ

 

Omeka

this site is no longer live, but you can view the following screencasts of it:
user view-
http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9XQ0NIR1xcR1xYUlhRVlBd
exhibit view -
http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9XQ0NIR1xbQ19YU1pfXl5S
exhibit view addendum -
http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9XQ0NIR1xbQ19ZWFxdVF5c
admin view -
http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9XQ0NIR1xbQ19bWl5aUlFX
exhibit builder -
http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9XQ0NIR1xbQ15dXllbVFJS

 

CollectiveAccess

this site is no longer live, but you can view the following screencasts of it:
user view-

 http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9XQ0NIR11ZSV1YW15QVlRT

admin view - 

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9XQ0NIR11ZSV1aXl1aUFZd

addendum -

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9XQ0NIR11ZSV9VXF5ZV1BX

Greenstone

this site is no longer live, but you can view the following screencasts of it:
user view-
http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9XQ0NIR11ZSV1UWF1eUlVc

admin view -

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9XQ0NIR11ZSV5fXF5dU1BU

 

Luna Insight

currently accessible only on the Vassar campus - please contact Arden for more info

 

ContentDM

currently accessible only on the Vassar campus - please contact Arden for more info

Filemaker

download on Files page available as "filemaker-test.zip"

you must have Filemaker software to access this file

it is a large file, because all the images are included

 

VCat

download available on Files page as a zipped folder "vcat-test"

folder includes data dictionary and excel spreadsheet

 

 

Excel

download available on Files page as "VCCCHighlightsData.xls"

 

Google Docs Spreadsheet

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p7ouScE49p7rk7wqwZ-ilOQ

 

Data Dictionary - shows field definitions and mapping used for all these demos

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p7ouScE49p7p-d_KwtwanFA

also available on Files page, as a pdf to print -  "VCCCFULLDATADICTIONARY.pdf"

and as an Excel spreadsheet - "VCCCFULLDATADICTIONARY.xls"