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Video Tour of First Digital Exhibit Built Using New Spotlight Plugin For Blacklight Developed at Stanford University

Filed by on June 24, 2014

From the Video Blurb (via Stanford University Libraries/YouTube):

This video is a tour of the first production exhibit built with Spotlight. It features digitized maps of Africa.

Spotlight is plugin of Blacklight, a popular open source solution for building library discovery environments. Spotlight enables librarians, faculty and others to build customized online exhibits using a self-service, forms-based user interface. Spotlight was designed and built by software engineers at the Stanford University Libraries.

Download the Spotlight Code (via Github)

See Also: Stanford U. Libraries Begins Building New Tool To Assist in Creation of Digital Collection Websites (February 16, 2014)

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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