RAMADDA provides support for creating digital exhibits with the Archive Exhibit and Archive Gallery entry types. An Archive Exhibit can contain any number of Archive Gallery entries. The order in which the Gallery entries are shown is determined by their "entry order". To set the entry order see the User Guide

The Archive Gallery is a special purpose Folder that can contain both it's own children entries as well as a list of entries from elsewhere in your RAMADDA (e.g., Archive Items, etc.). See the User Guide section on Virtual Entries for information on defining these external entries.

The defult gallery display sorts the children entries on entry order and then on name. There can be an issue in defining the sort order for entries that are remotely linked. If changing their entry order is not an issue then you can just set their entry order. However, if you can't set their entry order for the needs of the Gallery one workaround is to directly add a special Linked Entry entry to the Gallery. The Linked Entry has a reference to another entry (e.g. an Archive Item). It's default display is the import of the linked entry. The Linked Entry entry can have its entry order set to the appropriate value for display in the Gallery. Any reference to a thumbnail image on the Linked Entry will reference the thumbnail image of the entry that is linked.

The Gallery has a pre-defined display that, by default, shows the parent Archive Exhibit entry as the main section. It then displays the Gallery name as a sub-section with the Gallery description and an optional thumbnail image. The children entries of the Gallery (e.g., Archive Items, Images, Videos, etc) are then shown as a gallery display showing their thumbnail images (if defined). The main Archive Library constructs are-

• Archive Collection
• Archive Series
• Archive File
• Archive Item
• Archive Book
• Archive Object

There are a collection natural science specimen entry types, e.g, Ornithology, Insect, Geologic, etc. You can view the list of entry types here.