Touch the Collections: A 3D UI Prototype in DSpace-7
Le Yang, Zhongda Zhang · 2023
Institutions have focused on the digitization process, metadata workflow, and digital infrastructure development for digital librarianship in recent decades. The undergoing digital shift that is accelerated by the pandemic crisis has signified the importance of visualizing digital collections because digital presence is no longer a preview of the physical collection; instead, the digital presence has become the primary access point. Replacing the heavily text-based browsing features, visualization and interactive design in digital repositories are used to facilitate communication, presentation, discovery, and comprehension of digital and digitized heritage. This project explores and demos the first 3D user interface that visually outlines and interactively exhibits communities and collections in DSpace-7 and discusses the applicable scenarios. The integration of the developed modules will be released as open sources on GitHub once completed.