Content Outside of CONTENTdm: Part 1: Exhibit Creation Tool using

Prototype and Script.aculo.us

Phil Sager Ohio Historical Society

psager@ohiohistory.org

Old Ohio Memory with scrapbook

New CONTENTdm-based Ohio Memory with exhibit creator tool: http://www.ohiomemory.org/

Exhibit creation tool http://www.ohiomemory.org/custom/exhibits/

Example Search on “Grant”

Mouseover titles

Drag and Drop

Example of dropped item plus extra information from CDM description field by

clicking on question mark

Selections with annotations and title

After clicking on “Create Exhibit”

Exhibit is created

Different backgrounds available

Different background

“Add This” Button

Exhibit with annotation and CDM link

CONTENTdm Record

Prototype

•   “Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. It offers a familiar class-style OO framework, extensive Ajax support, higher-order programming constructs, and easy DOM manipulation.”

Script.aculo.us •   “script.aculo.us is a set of JavaScript

libraries to enhance the user interface of web sites. It provides a visual effects engine, a drag and drop library (including sortable lists), a couple of controls (Ajax-based autocompletion, in-place editing, sliders) and more.”

•   “It's an add-on to the fantastic Prototype framework.”

Other Popular Libraries •   jQuery, jQuery UI

–   http://jquery.com/ •   MooTools

–   http://mootools.net/ •   Dojo

–   http://www.dojotoolkit.org/ •   Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)

–   http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ •   Ext Core

–   http://www.extjs.com/products/extcore/

Google AJAX Libraries API

Search form

Prototype DOM methods

Prototype AJAX Request

Server-side

JSON •   “JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a

lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of JavaScript.”

•   “The Fat-Free Alternative to XML” •   http://json.org

JSON Example

Prototype decodes JSON

Use Script.aculo.us to build results

Script.aculo.us “Draggable”

Scriptaculous “Droppables”

Create Exhibit

Exhibit uses Lightview http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/

Online Resources •   Prototype: http://www.prototypejs.org

–   Tips and Tutorials: http://www.prototypejs.org/learn –   Prototype Framework Tutorial:

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/prototype •   Script.aculo.us: http://script.aculo.us

–   script.aculo.us Tutorial: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/script.aculo.us

–   10 Useful tutorials to learn Scriptaculous: http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/10/10-useful-tutorials-to-learn.html

•   Google AJAX Libraries API: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs –   Sign up for a Google API key:

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/signup.html •   Lightview: http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview

Books •   Crane, Dave, Bear Bibeault, Tom Locke, and

Thomas Fuchs. Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Manning Publications, 2007.

•   Dupont, Andrew. Practical Prototype and Script.aculo.us. Apress, 2008

•   Porteneuve, Christophe. Prototype and script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This! Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007.

•   Rao, Sridhar. PHP and script.aculo.us Web 2.0 Application Interfaces. Packt Publishing, 2009.

Phil Sager Ohio Historical Society psager@ohiohistory.org