Contributors' workshop presentation on adding links to digital objects

1. Adding links to digital objects Archives Hub Workshop 2010

2. Digital Archival Objects are: Electronic representations of the described materials Files: images, audio-visual, text Definition Archives Hub Workshop 2010

3. Digital Archival Objects <dao> Digital Archival Object group <daogrp> Digital Archival Object location <daoloc> Digital Archival Object description <daodesc> The EAD behind the display Archives Hub Workshop 2010

4. Embedding images for display Linking to files Embedding images and linking to high-resolution images Two or more objects described as a group Options for DAO Archives Hub Workshop 2010

5. We link to images/objects on your server or at a location specified by you (e.g. Flickr) The images/objects are your responsibility We follow standard practice, as dictated by EAD and HTML How it works Archives Hub Workshop 2010

6. <dao> and <daogrp> are specifically for representation of the archive materials If you want to link to other electronic objects use the <extptr> tag Electronic objects NOT part of the archive Archives Hub Workshop 2010

7. <dao href="http://www.foo.ac.uk/image.jpg" show="embed"> <daodesc> <p>Caption for image</p> </daodesc> </dao> (1) Embedding images for display Archives Hub Workshop 2010

8. <dao href="http://www.foo.ac.uk/textfile.pdf" show=“new"> <daodesc> <p>Link text</p> </daodesc> </dao> (2) Linking to files Archives Hub Workshop 2010

9. <daogrp> <daodesc> <p>Image description</p> </daodesc> <daoloc href="http://www.foo.ac.uk/image-small.jpg" label="thumb"/> <daoloc href="http://www.foo.ac.uk/image-large.jpg" label="reference"/> </daogrp> (3) Thumbnail / Reference Images Archives Hub Workshop 2010

10. <daogrp> <daodesc> <p>Postcard of Eastfield Mill with text versions</p> </daodesc> <daoloc href="http://www.foo.ac.uk/image.jpg"> <daodesc><p>Image description</p></daodesc> </daoloc> <daoloc href="http://www.foo.ac.uk/pdf-file.pdf" title="PDF document"/> <daoloc href="http://www.foo.ac.uk/word-file.doc" title="Word document"/> </daogrp> (4) Group of digital objects Archives Hub Workshop 2010