Digital Exhibits Guide

You're almost done! After you have done your own internal editing and testing, you'll send the site to the Digital Resources & Collections Committee for approval. They will do a first review and share the site with anyone else who needs to approve it (outside of the contributing institutions) and will send you any suggestions and copy-edits for you to make. Do note that there are some very specific things the Digital Resources & Collections Committee is looking for, listed in the Editing Your Site section in Editing and Testing Your Exhibit. As mentioned there, they will give you the option of correcting edits yourselves or using Committee help, but know that the website cannot be published until those edits are addressed. 

After you've gotten notice from the Digital Resources & Collections Committee, you'll send your site to your contacts at the contributing institutions that supplied content for your digital exhibit to double check captions and other image information. We have some standard language that you are welcome to use, and the Digital Resources & Collections Committee can provide you with any contacts that you aren't sure of. The Committee can also provide you with temporary username accounts and passwords to send to contributing institution contacts.

Once you've gotten approval from the host institutions, let the Digital Resources & Collections Committee know and they'll do a final check. Once this is done, they'll migrate your site to public view!

See the Digital Exhibit Social Media Guide for Partners.

Chicago Collections cannot promise long-term preservation of digital exhibits. We suggest self-archiving a copy of your digital exhibit once it is published. Scalar offers a utility that allows you to export all the pages and relationships contained in your exhibit either as RDF-JSON or RDF-XML. This function is located in the Import/Export tab of the dashboard.