DCB-6.1.2

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Upload a digital object

View archival description screen showing multi-page digital object

Deleting the page turner

1. To upload a digital object:

• Add a new resource description or open an existing description and switch to edit mode.

• Click on the digital object information area.

• Click the browse button to navigate to and select a file. Click the open button.

2. Save and view the record

• Click the create or save or button.
  • When you return to the view screen, the digital object will be displayed with a page turner that allows you to view reference display copies of all the pages in the object.
  • Logged-in users will see a blue link directly below the image allowing them to download the master digital object
  • A child record for each page in the digital object will have been generated and will be visible in the context menu box.
  • Each child record will display a reference display copy of the page of the digital object it describes.

3. Remove the page turner from the parent record

• If desired, the page turner display can be replaced by a reference display copy of the first page of the digital object or by another image entirely.

• Open the edit screen of the resource description

• Click on the digital object information area

• Under view children as a compound digital object? select "no"

• Under Add a new Reference presentation, either:
  • select "Auto-generate a new representation from master image" or
  • upload a new digital object

• Click the save button

4. Combining single-page digital objects

• Single-page objects can be aggregated to appear as one multi-page object in the parent record

• Upload a number of single-page digital objects, following the procedures in step 1, above
  • For each description, choose the same parent record

• Go to the view screen of the parent-level description. The individual digital objects added to the child-level description will now be displayed as a multi-page digital object, using the same page turner as described in step 2, above.

• To remove the multi-page representation from the parent record, see step 3, above.
  • Unlike in step 3, the option Add a new Reference presentation will not appear.