Page Title: You can title each item to suit your needs. For the Turns exhibit, we used the exhibit item’s topic, followed by a colon, then its title; example: “Working: Servant for Life”; this enabled a site visitor to compare topics across time.
Page content: write a brief label that illuminates how this item helps explain the central ideas or themes of your exhibit.
Item image: to select the image of the item, use the “Exhibit Item” field: search for the correct item using a distinctive word from the item’s title; for example, if the item is “Advertisement in “The Boston Weekly Post-Boy” newspaper” you might search for “Post-Boy” or “Weekly”. Once you’ve identified the correct Collection Item from your search, clicking on it in the left-hand pane will select it and it will appear in the right-hand pane. When the published page is displayed, the item automatically will include its title and a link to its Collection Item page.
Right column and metadata fields
- template: Exhibit Item
- category: Exhibit
- featured image: use the same image as you used in the page content area above
- excerpt: write a short excerpt.
- parent page: choose the appropriate exhibit, theme and turn; for example “African Americans: 1690 – 1720”
- order: this will put the exhibit items into the desired sequence on the exhibit section page
- topic: select appropriate topic(s)
- place – put a place if it’s relevant
- event – only if relevant
- era – choose the era that best matches the time period of your exhibit topic
- grade level – none, don’t enter anything
- related items: select illuminating related items; remember to also add essays, lessons, activities etc if you can think of good candidates