Digital Document

Usage

Use Digital Document when you’re adding a information that describes another piece of content, such as a pdf, map, excel, powerpoint or word. This can also be shown in multiple locations.

Fields

Title

Title is the headline text indicating the nature of the Digital Document below it. Titles in Digital Document content type should be written in sentence case and have action words and verbs that describe the article.

Summary

This further describes the content of the Digital Document. The summary will appear on the Digital Document page and on index pages.

Image

Optional but highly preferred, insert image that is the highest quality and with appropriate permissions.

Image Description

Required when there is an image, describe the image for those using a screen reader (serves as alternate text).

3:2 Horizontal Image

A 3:2 image to be used as a thumbnail on index pages as well as a social media image to be used when sharing the page.

Square Image

A square image used for callouts only. 

File

Insert the Digital Document file here.

Date Published

The date the Digital Document was published. 

Bookstore Product Code

The product code of the Digital Document.

Author

Information about the author of the Digital Document. 

Content

Required. The body of the Digital Document.

Relationships

Place-Digital Document

This can be used to associate a digital document with a place.

Series-Digital Document

Any documents that are associated with this series.

Dataset-Digital Document

Any documents that are associated with this dataset.

Organization-Digital Document

Any documents that are associated with this Organization.

Author-Digital Document

Any authors that have contributes to the digital documents.

Digital Document-Audio Object

Any audio objects that are associated with this digital document.

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