XMLUI themes

[Brian Stamper]

Hello all,

At Ohio State we have been running Manakin for about a year now, which we  
switched to after having used the JSP interface for many years. One of the  
key reasons that we made the switch was the potential to create themes  
which may be applied individually to certain communities and collections.

We have had some success in this. For example, we created a "gallery"  
theme that we applied to some image collections.[1]

However, we would like to do more. As such, we are interested in what  
other institutions are doing. Here are some of the things we would like to  
know:

1. If you have made use of themes for individual communities or  
collections, how so? Do you use themes for styling for a particular  
community, e.g. branding, color, font? Do you use themes to present a  
particular content type in a way that is specific to some collection?
2. Have there been things that you wanted to do, but proved too difficult  
to implement? Obviously time and budget constraints emerge, but had you  
encountered other unforeseen barriers to development?
3. Has the capacity to create themes been a selling point for your  
repository? What types of things have you found that communities would  
want in a theme?

We're looking for examples of how people have used this capability, so if  
you have, please share a link! We've been looking at many DSpace  
instances, and it appears that theming individual communities or  
collections is a rare phenomenon.

We would greatly appreciate any discussions that may develop from these  
questions.


Thank you,

Brian Stamper
The Ohio State University Libraries
Scholarly Resources Integration
320 Science and Engineering Library
175 West 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
[phone]

The Knowledge Bank at OSU
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/


[1] Some nice examples of our gallery theme in use:
The Steven Enich Serbian Orthodox Culture Slide Collection:  
http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37112
John H. Glenn Archives Photo Gallery: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/50311
Ukrainian Immigration to Columbus, Ohio: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36653

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[Blanco, Jose]

Hey Brian,  We're in the process of making that transition from jspui to xmlui, and I'm wondering if all the changes you made to get the image collection up and going involved the themes, or did you have to make changes to the aspects also?

-Jose

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Stamper [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:45 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [Dspace-tech] XMLUI themes

Hello all,

At Ohio State we have been running Manakin for about a year now, which we switched to after having used the JSP interface for many years. One of the key reasons that we made the switch was the potential to create themes which may be applied individually to certain communities and collections.

We have had some success in this. For example, we created a "gallery"  
theme that we applied to some image collections.[1]

However, we would like to do more. As such, we are interested in what other institutions are doing. Here are some of the things we would like to
know:

1. If you have made use of themes for individual communities or  
collections, how so? Do you use themes for styling for a particular community, e.g. branding, color, font? Do you use themes to present a particular content type in a way that is specific to some collection?
2. Have there been things that you wanted to do, but proved too difficult  
to implement? Obviously time and budget constraints emerge, but had you encountered other unforeseen barriers to development?
3. Has the capacity to create themes been a selling point for your  
repository? What types of things have you found that communities would want in a theme?

We're looking for examples of how people have used this capability, so if you have, please share a link! We've been looking at many DSpace instances, and it appears that theming individual communities or collections is a rare phenomenon.

We would greatly appreciate any discussions that may develop from these questions.


Thank you,

Brian Stamper
The Ohio State University Libraries
Scholarly Resources Integration
320 Science and Engineering Library
175 West 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
[phone]

The Knowledge Bank at OSU
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/


[1] Some nice examples of our gallery theme in use:
The Steven Enich Serbian Orthodox Culture Slide Collection:  
http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37112
John H. Glenn Archives Photo Gallery: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/50311 Ukrainian Immigration to Columbus, Ohio: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36653

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[peterdietz]

Jose,

I don't think we run into the situation where we *have* to change the Java (aspect) to accomplish what we want to, it more of a trade-off. 

But times when we alter the aspect would be when it is a really simple change, and we want to target a specific page. Or when it would be so much easier to change the Java, and make a simple one-liner, verse having to reverse engineer the DRI in XSL, and do some horrible, hacky, painful process to extrapolate data.

A clear example is that we've altered the Edit Collection controllers/aspects to make it so that you only see the Curate tab if you are a super admin. A really easy if(AuthorizeManager.isSuperAdmin(context) { ... }, compared to some mess of XSL to do the same.

An example of our per-collection theme modifications is that many themes have different needs for which metadata fields need to display in the item view. Our thesis collections show the advisor in the metadata, where as some of our collections about a specific location, will have the location metadata in the simple metadata page.

One feature that we've added, but haven't yet deployed to production, is the ability to display mathematical symbols graphically. We still have unanswered questions about which encoding standards to use to store the text version of the formulas, and we have questions about how to display to the user (MathML in-browser rendering, replace the formula with an image on the fly...). And further, the community/collection discussions needed to convert features we've developed, with needs of the end users. i.e. Would you like us to enable the feature of displaying your formulas graphically? 

Peter Dietz

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Blanco, Jose <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hey Brian,  We're in the process of making that transition from jspui to xmlui, and I'm wondering if all the changes you made to get the image collection up and going involved the themes, or did you have to make changes to the aspects also?

-Jose

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Stamper [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:45 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [Dspace-tech] XMLUI themes

Hello all,

At Ohio State we have been running Manakin for about a year now, which we switched to after having used the JSP interface for many years. One of the key reasons that we made the switch was the potential to create themes which may be applied individually to certain communities and collections.

We have had some success in this. For example, we created a "gallery"
theme that we applied to some image collections.[1]

However, we would like to do more. As such, we are interested in what other institutions are doing. Here are some of the things we would like to
know:

1.      If you have made use of themes for individual communities or
collections, how so? Do you use themes for styling for a particular community, e.g. branding, color, font? Do you use themes to present a particular content type in a way that is specific to some collection?
2.      Have there been things that you wanted to do, but proved too difficult
to implement? Obviously time and budget constraints emerge, but had you encountered other unforeseen barriers to development?
3.      Has the capacity to create themes been a selling point for your
repository? What types of things have you found that communities would want in a theme?

We're looking for examples of how people have used this capability, so if you have, please share a link! We've been looking at many DSpace instances, and it appears that theming individual communities or collections is a rare phenomenon.

We would greatly appreciate any discussions that may develop from these questions.


Thank you,

Brian Stamper
The Ohio State University Libraries
Scholarly Resources Integration
320 Science and Engineering Library
175 West 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
<a href="tel:%28614%29%20247-8415" value="[phone]">[phone]

The Knowledge Bank at OSU
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/


[1] Some nice examples of our gallery theme in use:
The Steven Enich Serbian Orthodox Culture Slide Collection:
http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37112
John H. Glenn Archives Photo Gallery: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/50311 Ukrainian Immigration to Columbus, Ohio: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36653

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[germanbio]

Hi Brian

I'm using Manakin in several DSpace implementations and found very
difficult to obtain examples about complex content disposition and
customized presentation of data through the XSL miriad of options &
files. Is there a way to share with the list some the XSL that you're
using for this image gallery? I  suppose that you modified item-list
and use the thumb file to get the image, but could be a very good
example of a complex customization.

Thanks a lot in advance
Regards
German

2012/2/14 Brian Stamper <[hidden email]>:

> Hello all,
>
> At Ohio State we have been running Manakin for about a year now, which we
> switched to after having used the JSP interface for many years. One of the
> key reasons that we made the switch was the potential to create themes
> which may be applied individually to certain communities and collections.
>
> We have had some success in this. For example, we created a "gallery"
> theme that we applied to some image collections.[1]
>
> However, we would like to do more. As such, we are interested in what
> other institutions are doing. Here are some of the things we would like to
> know:
>
> 1.      If you have made use of themes for individual communities or
> collections, how so? Do you use themes for styling for a particular
> community, e.g. branding, color, font? Do you use themes to present a
> particular content type in a way that is specific to some collection?
> 2.      Have there been things that you wanted to do, but proved too difficult
> to implement? Obviously time and budget constraints emerge, but had you
> encountered other unforeseen barriers to development?
> 3.      Has the capacity to create themes been a selling point for your
> repository? What types of things have you found that communities would
> want in a theme?
>
> We're looking for examples of how people have used this capability, so if
> you have, please share a link! We've been looking at many DSpace
> instances, and it appears that theming individual communities or
> collections is a rare phenomenon.
>
> We would greatly appreciate any discussions that may develop from these
> questions.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Brian Stamper
> The Ohio State University Libraries
> Scholarly Resources Integration
> 320 Science and Engineering Library
> 175 West 18th Avenue
> Columbus, OH 43210
> [phone]
>
> The Knowledge Bank at OSU
> https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/
>
>
> [1] Some nice examples of our gallery theme in use:
> The Steven Enich Serbian Orthodox Culture Slide Collection:
> http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37112
> John H. Glenn Archives Photo Gallery: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/50311
> Ukrainian Immigration to Columbus, Ohio: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36653
>
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