The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
Submissions for Online Slide Shows
Submitting Research for an Online Slide Show
If you are planning to submit images and captions for an online slide show, please follow these guidelines:
• First take a look at our existing slide shows to familiarize yourself with the general layout, the options in presentation, and the quality of images and captions.
• The best way to send images is in digital format on a CD or zip disk. If the pictures were shot on film, we would appreciate duplicates of the prints or slides for our archives as well. Digital images should be in JPEG format and should be large (around 1800 x 1200 pixels; absolute minimum 600 x 400 pixels) and saved at high quality. We may be able to assist with scanning your slides or prints if you are unable to do so.
• The best way to send your captions is in a table, with the names of the images -- in the order in which they are to appear -- in one column and the caption for each image in the other column. Note that it is also possible to have a caption in a box underneath the image -- see examples 1, 2, and 3 (entire show).
• Before your slide show can be made public, we will need your show's title, and text to be placed on your introductory page.
• Captions can convey significant content to supplement images. Please use complete descriptive sentences and punctuation.
• We need captions, as those will also appear next to the thumbnails in another view. Captions need to be at most a few sentences in length. Additional text can be placed below the photos and can be up to a few paragraphs in length. This can be a good way to deal with issues in depth; please see the slide show on Rhode Island for an example. (http://www.pluralism.org/resources/slideshow/mcgonigle/index.php)
• Optional: You can specify different colors to be used for the text and backgrounds, if desired, and can split your show up into distinct sections, each with its own title (see examples 1 and 2). Separate title headers for individual slides and thumbnail pages can be arranged.
Tips for Affiliates and Others Submitting Slide Shows:
To make the job of the person putting up your slide show easier, please follow these set of guidelines while preparing your images and captions:
• Remember that the formatting on a hardcopy of captions of pictures will not be the same as the online version of the slide show, eg there will not be tables in captions.
• It is easiest if images are named in the way they will be presented -- ie, numerically. For example, 01HolyLand.jpg, 02HolyLand.jpg, ..., 30HolyLand.jpg
• Make a separate file for electronic submission of slide show captions.
In this file, put the image names and captions in the order you wish to see them in the slide show. Between each image/caption set, put a blank line separating them.
For example, you can have something like this:
my_image1.jpg
"Put my_image1's caption in quotes like this, on the line right below the image name."
my_image2.jpg
"and make sure that between each image/caption pair, there is a line separating them."