Upload digital objects

Upload digital objects

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Upload a digital object

View archival description page showing thumbnail image. Clicking on image will open up the reference display copy.

1. You can use ICA-AtoM to upload digital objects, e.g. digital photographs, scanned images, sound and moving image files and other scanned or born-digital items.

• Digital objects can be searched and browsed by end-users.

• Every digital object must be associated with an archival description, typically at the file or item level.

• As of the current version of ICA-AtoM (v1.0 beta), there is no way to batch upload a set of files; each must be done one at a time.

• For every digital object uploaded, ICA-AtoM creates two additional images: a thumbnail and a reference display copy.

• Note that at higher levels of description, the context menu box includes thumbnails of all digital objects registered at lower levels.

• • The thumbnails are displayed using a cover-flow viewer so you can easily easily scroll through the set using your keyboard's scroll arrows.

• You can upload single- or multi-page digital objects. For multi-page objects see steps 4-7, below.

2. You can upload any file format, but only supported formats can be viewed or played directly in ICA-AtoM.

• For a list of formats, see UM-6.1.1 Digital objects: supported formats.

• Formats that are not supported can still be uploaded: clicking the object will download it to the user's desktop where (assuming the user has the required software) it can be viewed or played.

3. To upload a digital object:

• Add a new archival 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.

• Click the save button. When you return to the view screen, the thumbnail will be displayed in the digital object field. Clicking on the thumbnail opens up the higher-resolution reference display copy, and clicking on the reference display copy opens up the master digital object (accessible to logged-in users only).

• Please note that there is a file size limitation of 2MB in the on-line demo version of ICA-AtoM. Files larger than 2 MB will fail to upload.

4. Uploading multi-page digital objects

• Follow the procedures outlined in step 3, above.

• In the view screen the object will be displayed with a page turner.

• ICA-AtoM will automatically created child-level descriptions for each page.