Sally Kleinfeldt, Alec Mitchell: Online Exhibits of Plone Content

Описание: Online exhibits mimic the experience of walking through a gallery discovering interesting and beautiful objects. We describe a new add-on for creating online exhibits from Plone content.


Museums, libraries, art institutes, and many other types of organizations need online exhibits - websites that mimic the experience of walking through a gallery discovering interesting and beautiful objects. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection recently completed a major website redesign, with Plone as their chosen CMS, and online exhibits are an important part of the new site. They wanted many features, but they also wanted online exhibits to be easy for content editors - even interns - to create.

In this talk we will describe the new open source Plone add-on for online exhibits that we have created for Dumbarton Oaks and for the Plone community. Sally will describe what the package does, how we made it easy for content editors and site visitors to use, and what sorts of Plone sites it is suited for. Alec will describe our implementation, covering our use of Dexterity content types (and the things that were missing), how we used templates to provide a rich feature set while still making it easy for inexperienced content editors to create exhibits, and the things that should be easy but are difficult to do in Plone.