Quick stats
- 200+ contributing institutions
- 500,000+ page views in December, 2008 and growing
- 5 seconds: average time between page views
- Additional 12,000+ page views in December, 2008 in the Ontario Government Documents portal
- Additional 500,000+ page views supported for other national and provincial portals
Quick view
- Search
- Results (Railroads)
- Detail: these are supplied by the applications run by individual contributors (including those using Vita)
Advanced walk through (the extra stuff)
- Alternate paths
- Ontario Government Documents
- Browse by Contributors
- Browse by Audio, Collection, Image, Text, Objects, and Video
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- Limit by: boolean, field, fuzzy, geography, contributor, and media type
- Result size options
- Advanced Search: (All)
- Null search that gets everything
- Search within a search
- All search results are bookmarkable
- Facets: media types, contributors, locations, item types, features and groups
Examples of types of content
- Video:podcastable (Oral Histories, 2005-) Historical footage (1903)
- Images:Photographs, Postcards, Prints, Maps, Charts, Stereoviews
- Text:Documents, Sheet music, Books, pamphlets, clippings
- Audio:downloadable
- Objects:Tombstones, Museum artifacts
- Collections:websites (managed in Vita; displayed through portal)
Examples of types of sites:
- Public Libraries
- University Special Collections
- Archives
- Historical Societies
- Other types of organizations
- Windsor Veterans' Project
- Knox Presbyterian Church, Oakville (part of Oakville Images)
- Collaborations
- Agnes Macphail Digital Collection (two museums and a public library)
- Cobourg Images (Cobourg And District Historical Society Archives and Cobourg Public Library)
- Halton Images (five historical societies, four public libraries, two museums and a church)
Web tools (and some of the exciting stuff)
- Social linking
- Links to a wide array of bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious as Facebook, Twitter and others
- Mapping:
GoogleEarth and KML files
- Media browsing: using
MediaRSS
- MediaRSS is an extension to RSS syntax
- see native in
(Windows, Mac) - see via
(ex. PicLens) plugin: FireFox (Windows/Mac, 2+, Linux 3+), Internet Explorer (6-7), Safari (3+)
- Search widgets
- Use it from our Facebook page!
- Or your own blog or web site
- Drop a search widget into your own Facebook page, (or your institutional web site, or your blog or other social spaces)
- Opensearch
- autodiscoverable Search Engine plug in (Firefox (3+), Internet Explorer (7+); works in Chrome (1+)
- Citation Management: unAPI +
- serves standard metadata records: MODS or Dublin Core
- Windows/Mac/Linux
- needs Firefox (3+), Flock (.9+) or Netscape (9+) plus the Zotero plugin
- screenshot of Zotero in action on a Vita site
- Video demo by the folks at Zotero
RDFa: a component of the W3C Semantic Web initiative
- The RDFa Primer: "turn the existing human-visible text and links into machine-readable data without repeating content"
- RDF Primer video
- various RDF tools including:
expose contact (hCard) and Location (geo)
- Microformats.org: " ... Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards."
- In Firefox: Operator
- Metadata exports
MODS
Dublin Core
RSS
Atom- RDF
- and more coming ...
