Category:Customizations

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Customizations, Enhancements, Hacks for CONTENTdm.

Josh Kline, at The Claremont Colleges Digital Library, has implemented the following enhancements:

1. allow collection level browse/results defaults. Enables collection specific sorting and visible fields.
2. display streaming videos and allow multiple available bit rates per item.
3. enhanced pdf viewing for macintosh (users actually see the pdf instead of "access this item").
4. "inline" display of html items.
5. item titles appear in <title> tag. Reverse order of <title> tags so that most specific is first.
6. Collection home pages and collection catagories. Enabled through a hidden collection of collections.
7. Administrator/Staff side enhanced/summary collection views.
8. Numerous fixes for html validation.
9. Move style sheets to separate file to reduce page size and leverage browser caching.
10. Installation of Terry Reese's RSS feeds and table of contents pages.

Glee Willis, at the University of Nevada, Reno has implemented the following enhancements:

1. different headers for every collection, collection home pages, and separate "portals" for "user experiences" for 13 of the 18 public collections
2. link to streaming videos, and links to DjVu, jpegs, and tiffs for (almost) all of our maps that are loaded as JP2s
3. for one collection, header is suppressed for compound object displays. In this same collection, we have made all PDFs we've loaded into compound objects, so that users don't have to click on "Access this item".
4. for one collection's "user experience", we have created a "collection within a collection" display with a hack to several of the .php files
5. advanced search collection selection defaults to current collection only
6. local customizations of Terry Reese's RSS feed and table of contents pages
7. implementation of Terry Reese's spell checking code
8. (working on) implementation of Terry Reese's social tagging code
9. (working on) implementation of Terry Reese's shopping cart code for e-commerce