Gallery

What is a gallery?

A gallery is a display format. It shows items arranged in a row or a collection. The item can be represented by an image, but it does not always have an image.

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The gallery can be shown together with a timeline or a map or both.

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Gallery types

The gallery can represent for example people (individuals), organisations and groups, companies (shops, restaurants, businesses)– families/households – crews – teams, places, works, events

The items are shown based on linked Wikidata items. Additional items can be shown following links via related Wikipedia categories for validating and importing to Wikidata.

The design of a gallery

Gallery types

• Item gallery – A gallery represents items. An item is displayed with a gutter between items.
  • Single item
  • Grouped items, such as households and people living in them
• Image gallery – Images are shown as a continuous mat.

Item design

Types

1. Textual – A gallery item consists of text only.
2. Image optimised – the text content is displayed in as compact manner as possible uniformly across gallery items.
3. Varied – Gallery items have varying content and will be displayed in the best possible manner for each item:
   • Text over image
   • Text beside the image on a single-colour background
   • Text only on a single-colour background

Other

• Buttons, menus and indicators are used depending on the need of the content module.
• The layout may be varied between components (text in the upper/lower part, button used/not, buttons placed in the upper/lower part)

Controls

[Plus] Add

• person / event / place / work / organisation
• Modal#Link_item

[Funnel] Facet

• based on connecting properties

[] Sort

• Alphabetical
  • Person: Last name, (first name)
• Time of..
  • Person: Birth, death
• Reverse

[] Display

• Gallery
  • + Map
  • + Timeline
• List

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