Digital Commons Exhibits (DCX) is designed to present your institution’s best works and digital stories in a flexible, modern showcase that can reach a wide range of audiences. DCX is included with your Digital Commons IR license at no additional cost.

DCX allows you to create two kinds of exhibits: standard exhibits that easily integrate content from your Digital Commons site into an eye-catching collection, and scrolling exhibits that provide a dynamic, visual narrative for visitors.

Curation tools in DCX help to highlight your best and most important scholarship with a museum-like design. Archives and special collections appear in their best light, while research projects benefit from a visually inviting gateway to attract students and faculty.

DCX Features

• Responsive design for viewing across devices
• Easy customization of landing, exhibit, and item pages
• Direct import of records from DC collections, supporting all file types, with unified download counts
• PDF viewers, image pan/zoom, and compound object display
• Sections within standard exhibits, with mixed file types/sources across exhibits and sections
• Embedded third-party content support for many external sources
• Faceted search with snippets and thumbnails
• Custom ordering, thumbnails, background colors, fonts, and metadata display options

Types of Exhibits You Can Create

DCX works well for a wide range of use cases: special collections, archives, library exhibits, art shows and portfolios, student works, research collections, teaching and learning materials, conferences, and more. DCX is also a strong fit for digital humanities projects, labs, grant-funded research artifacts, and data collections.

DCX standard exhibits are integrated with your Digital Commons repository, so you can import items from any DC publication directly into an exhibit—no need to upload files or re-enter metadata. Each standard exhibit can include a variety of file types drawn from different publications, organized around themes, projects, events, or unique collections. Download counts stay unified with the original DC records.

In addition to standard exhibits, you also have access to scrolling exhibits with flexible layouts for building single-page narratives.

How To Get Started

Contact your consultant to start using Digital Commons Exhibits. Your consultant will perform a one-time setup and provide you with a login to your institution’s DCX site. See Getting Started with DCX for details.

Once you are all set up, you can start creating exhibits, import content, and fine-tune your site’s display.