Users click on one of these headings to reveal the images in the next hierarchical level.
Although this structure isn’t inherently intuitive,
we felt it was the best fit from among the options available in the CONTENTdm software. The structure works well when browsing the collection as a whole or via the index boxes we supplied for artifact type and building of origin, but we are less enthusiastic with how it translates into retrieval from keyword searches. CONTENTdm has options for customizing the retrieval display that address some of our concerns, but the fact that the software isolates document- and pagelevel metadata in the search and display customization functionalities prohibits us from achieving our ideal result.