Institutional Digital Library -- Creating a New Web Collection

An institutional administrator may upload any number of web pages or collections.

The process has recently been changed. It is a bit more complicated, but it is more stable than previous versions.

There are three steps to the process:

Step 1: Create a sub-folder/directory (where the new web collection will be located).

Step 2: Create a new web collection

Step 3: Add content to the web collection

Step 1: Create a sub-folder/directory

(The new web collection will be located in this folder.)

• Go to the Adminstrative page via the left-hand navigational column.

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• Click on "Edit Digital Library."

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• Click on "Edit static web pages" at the top of the page.

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• Type in the name of the new folder/dirctory (e.g. "mudmosques").
Note: Do not use spaces in the folder name.

• Click on the "Add" button. (See figure 4 below.)

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Your new folder will be added to the list of web collections.

• Click on your new folder. (See figure 5 below.)

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It will display the "path" of the URL for the new collection.

• Highlight and copy the path. (See figure 6 below.) Save this information. It will be used later.

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Step 2: Create a New Web Collection

Return to the Administrative page for the Digital Library.

• Click on "Edit Digital Library".

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• Click on "Add a new collection".

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• Choose the type of collection (Web).

• Type in the title of the new web collection.

• Type in the description.

• Designate if your description is in text or HTML format.

• Click on the "Create collection" button. (See figure 9 below.)

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Return to the administrative page for the digital library. (See below.)

• Click on the new web collection.

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Click on "Edit title and description". (See figure 11 below.)

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• Paste in the "path" that you copied in an earlier step (from figure 6).

• Click on the "Confirm" button.

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Step 3: Add Content to the Web Collection

Return to the administrative page for the institution's Digital Library (figure 10).

• Click on the name of the new web collection.

• Click on "Edit contents". (See below.)

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• Upload the first page of the collection. Locate the file by clicking on the "Browse" button and then the "Add" button. Note: The first page must be called "index.html".

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• Continue adding HTML files and images (JPG or GIF) to the folder with the "Browse" and "Add" buttons.

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The new collection will be visible by all ArchNet members and visitors to the ArchNet site.

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