Windows to the World

Contents: About CollectionBuilder | About the About Page | Tech

A launchpad to the world, based in the Midwest

Founded in 1820, Indiana University Bloomington is the flagship campus of IU’s seven campuses and two regional centers statewide. Its mission is to create, disseminate, preserve, and apply knowledge. It does so through its commitments to cutting-edge research, scholarship, arts, and creative activity; to challenging and inspired undergraduate, graduate, professional, and lifelong education; to culturally diverse and international educational programs and communities; to first-rate library and museum collections; to economic development in the state and region; and to meaningful experiences outside the classroom.

The partnership between art and global studies

In 2018, IU launched University Collections, part of a sustained effort to ensure that all of IU’s collections are properly preserved, housed, and made accessible to all members of the IU community, the general public, and scholars everywhere. The Collections center provides all collections with access to share resources, provide training opportunities, and assist in creating necessary plans and policies to ensure the safety and longevity of all collections.	The IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies was established in 2012 and named in 2018. Offering the most foreign languages in the country, the HLS provide students with a superior global education, including the #1 fellowships and language Flagship programs in the country. The Hamilton Lugar School combines the study of history, culture, society, and language with a close examination of pressing global issues.
Learn about art at IU	Learn about global studies

Global Departments, Centers and Institutes at IU

African Studies Program	Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies	Dhar India Studies Program
East Asian Studies Center	Institute for European Studies	Southeast Asian and ASEAN Studies
IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology	Lilly Library	IU Archives of Traditional Music

Windows to the World has been made possible in part by grants from the US Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the Social Science Research Council.

Windows to the World is also grateful for the participation from the Indiana chapter of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, generously funded by the Freeman Foundation.

About CollectionBuilder

This site is generated using CollectionBuilder-GH, a project to create a free and simple digital collection using GitHub Pages from:

• a CSV of collection metadata
• a folder of JPG images or PDF documents

For full details of creating your own collection site, visit CollectionBuilder Documentation!

About the About Page

We want to make engaging interpretive pages easier to create, so CollectionBuilder gives you tools to write with your collection content!

The template comes with a customizable “About” page layout designed for long form content with rich media embeds. Content is written in Markdown and enhanced using “includes” that pull in collection content, external media, and Bootstrap features like cards and modals. We hope this makes it easier for site builders to develop the collection AND add interesting and engaging contextual information.

Each “include” file has several options, which are documented in the files themselves–copy the examples to see how it works with your content! In the demo below, we’ve given display widths of 25% and 50% to save space, but you can feature the entire image or document.

You can also see a page featuring a bonanza of feature includes options on our CollectionBuilder-GH demo site.

Include Collection Items

The template provides includes to pull your collection objects and metadata into your interpretive page, allowing you to write with your materials directly embedded in the content.

Include an Image

• Image –> {% include feature/image.html objectid="demo_001" width="75" %}

Include a PDF

• PDF – > {% include feature/pdf.html objectid="demo_002" width="50" %}

Include a Video

• Video: {% include feature/video.html objectid="demo_004" %}

Include an Audio File

• Audio: {% include feature/audio.html objectid="demo_003" %}

Include Bootstrap Features

The template also provides includes to make it easier to add Bootstrap components to your Markdown writing. These features allow you to better organize and highlight your content.

Include a Card

• Card – > {% include feature/card.html header="This is a Card" text="The card features an image from the collection as a cap" objectid="demo004" width="25" centered=true %}

Include a Button

• Buttons – > {% include feature/button.html text="Button Link to Somewhere" link="https://collectionbuilder.github.io/" color="success" %}

Include an Alert

• Alerts – > {% include feature/alert.html text="this is an *alert* that 'warns' a user" color="warning" align="center" %}

Include a Modal

• Modals – > {% include feature/modal.html button="This is a modal using a 'primary' colored button to invite clicking" title="when clicked:" text="A Modal will pop out a box with some more information" color="primary" %}