Creating & Editing Collection Properties

To build a collection, begin in the "Collection" tab of the Collection Manager. Click on the "New Collection" button and start creating the properties for that collection. You can easily edit these collection properties any time, even if a collection is already published and displaying in the LUNA Viewer.

Collection Properties:

• Collection Name: Give your collection a name, you may use up to 200 characters including spaces.
  
  
• Collection Description: The description appears in the LUNA Viewer on the collection selection page.
  
  

• Data Schema: This is a very important part of your collection building process. Each record in a collection will be based on the structure of the data schema you select. Every data schema is based on a data template. Use the pull down menu to select an existing data template. If you're just starting out and there are no templates to select from, go to the Templates tab and create one. After you save the collection properties you cannot change which schema is being used.
  

  If you'd like to change or edit your data schema later on, click on "View/Edit schema" and edit the schema. Edits to a schema will not be made to the actual template you've selected; you're just making changes to a version that is attached to the collection.

  
  

• Header Graphic: Upload a custom header graphic to better brand your collection. This will appear in the LUNA Viewer. If you prefer, you can enter a URL that points to the graphic instead. Note: Make sure the file name for the graphic has no special characters or spaces. For example,  mylunaheader.jpg  will work but my(luna) header.jpg will not work. 
   
• Uploading Header Graphic: To upload a header graphic to the LUNA system, click on the Upload or select header graphic button. Next click on Select file and locate the file you want to use as your header graphic. Then click on the button with the up arrow to upload the graphic. To add a header graphic to a collection, select the header graphic you want to use and done.

• LUNA Viewer Theme:  Additional themes will be available in the future.
  
  

• Thumbnail Fields: Select which of the 4 fields you'd like to have display in the LUNA Viewer for your thumbnail fields. These fields are coming from the data schema you previously selected.
  
   
• Related Item Field (v7.1.6+): Select a field to represent related items in a collection within the LUNA Viewer. Related items will display in the Viewer when there are two or more identical terms in the field you select. For an existing collection, a Rebuild LUNA Viewer Index is required. See  Related Items in the Viewer for an example.
  
  
• Sort Fields: Select which of the 4 fields you'd like to sort your collection by in the LUNA Viewer. These fields are coming from the data schema you previously selected.
  
  
• Summary Fields: Select which of the 4 fields you'd like to have display as the roll over media summary in the LUNA Viewer. These fields are coming from the data schema you previously selected.
  
  

• Category Fields- Who, What, When, Where: Drag and drop up to 20 fields into the Who, What, When, Where categories. These will be represented in the LUNA Viewer in the "Explore Categories" view, in the Advanced Search when searching across multiple collections, and in the narrow search feature. 

  

  The Rebuild LUNA Viewer Index button should only be applied if changes are made to the settings for Who, What, When, Where category fields. Or, if you notice a discrepancy between the data in the LUNA Library and what's appearing in the LUNA Viewer. We recommend doing this during off peak hours

  
  

• Canonical Address:  Allows you to share your collection with the LUNA Commons. For more information contact Luna support. This will point back to your instance of LUNA in all web crawlers. So any institution sharing your content publicly using the LUNA Commons will be advertising your site and content. This will increase your page rank in search engines like Google. This needs to be the base address of your LUNA site. For example http://www.example.com:8180/luna/servlet

• OAI-PMH Mapping:   OAI-PMH is a protocol for sharing metadata and allows your collection metadata to be harvested by other repositories. Select a data field from the left hand menu and then select which of the Dublin Core fields you'd like to map it to. For more information contact Luna support.

          

• Include Relay Button: The Relay Button can be used as a link from the Detail View to an external destination like a buy button or an in-context comment page. You can enable the Relay Button in the Collection Manager. This will create a button (previously the Buy Button) that appears at the top of LUNA when viewing an image. For more information contact Luna support.
  
  

• Media Metadata Options: Check the boxes that apply to search for and display custom user defined fields, EXIF, IPTC, and XMP info in the LUNA Viewer. 
  Custom Data Fields are user defined fields that act as supplemental descriptive data in a collection and the only data fields available for an item in the Independent Media Items.
   

   

  Tip: To ensure your EXIF, IPTC, and XMP data is searchable within LUNA, be sure to check the boxes under the Search heading before uploading your Media Items.