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How to Add a Collection to Digital.Grinnell 4 min read Jun 25, 2020 | Updated: Sep 11, 2023 13:54
So, you want to add a new collection or sub-collection (they are really the same thing) to Digital.Grinnell, eh? It’s easy, but there are some things to consider before I show you how. Collection Guidelines There are no “formal” guidelines for the creation of a collection or sub-collection in Digital.Grinnell, but I can think of a couple “informal” things to consider. Are there or will there ever be enough objects, old and/or new, with something in common to warrant a new collection? ...
Creating a CollectionBuilder-CSV Instance from Our Migration Collection 10 min read Nov 28, 2022
This post is essentially a CollectionBuilder-CSV follow-up to Creating a Migration Collection, intended to document the path I’ve taken and the decisions I made when creating a first cut of Digital.Grinnell content using the aformentioned CollectionBuilder-CSV. CB-CSV_DG-01 With few notable exceptions, everything mentioned below will be visible in a new public GitHub repo at Digital-Grinnell/CB-CSV_DG-01. Corresponding Google Sheet One of the exceptions: the project’s metadata CSV in a time-stamped tab at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ic4PxHDbuzDrmf4YtauhC4vEQJxt3QSH8bYfLBCM3Gc/. Other worksheets/tabs in the Google Sheet contain: Sheet 1 = the initial imported demo data from the CollectionBuilder-CSV Metadata Template ...
Creating a Migration Collection 22 min read Oct 12, 2022
As we continue to look at potential migration paths for our Digital.Grinnell (DG) content, it’s become apparent that it would be nice to have a small “test” or “migration” collection of objects to play with. The collection should have a small, but diverse, set of objects covering all of the popular content, or CModel, types that we currently have in DG. Since Slack now imposes a 90-day lifespan for posts (we are using only free-tier Slack services at this time) I thought I had better create this blog post to capture key parts of a relevant Slack conversation… ...