Oral History collections

Kim asked:

As we looked around, we liked to layout and options used in the Cedarville Theatre Productions http://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/theatre_productions/28/. Specifically, we would like to have a main metadata page (is this a book gallery?) where we can have an image, a few lines of metadata, and then link to a secondary page where we can upload more images, the transcript, and streaming audio files.  We would also like to use the PDF viewer, and in fact, Charlie would love to have that on all appropriate Archives collections.
Is this something you have to activate on your end, or something that is configurable on ours? Also, could you advise me on how the streaming audio works?



Dan answered:


You're right that the Cedarville Theatre Productions collection is a book gallery, along with some customizations. If we set this up as a book gallery, you'll be able to display metadata along with an image. We can also set up the miniature slideshow on the page like the one on the example you sent, if you'd like. If so, we'll just need to set up a new image gallery, and then I'll add a new metadata field on the submit form. Let me know if you'd like to discuss this further, as well as whether you'd like me to set up a book gallery for you to test on.

Embedding streaming audio is very easy. You'll just need to first upload them onto SoundCloud, and then I'll enable the streaming media fields. You'll just input the SoundCloud URL in the URL field, and then you'll select "Other Rich Media" from the dropdown list. Here's an example of how it will look on the page.

Finally, if you'd like to enable the PDF viewer, you can do so from the configurations page. You'll just select the "Enable PDF viewer on item information pages" and then update the publication