Generations of Vinyl Records

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About the Collection

“This site hosts a digitized collection of various vinyl records from the Speas and Moore families. These records come from four different generations of two families. I, Allie Speas, am the fourth-generation in this collection. Most of my albums were either purchased by myself, bought new or thrifted, or gifted to me from dear friends and family. The third-generation is my dad, Jim Speas, and he influenced my music taste quite a bit as a child. The second-generation is my grandfather, Riki Moore, who actually gave me his record collection as well as his parents’ collection. This leaves us with the first-generation being Eva Moore.

I got my first record player as a junior in high school. My parents found it at a garage sale and brought it back home to me as a surprise. I had always wanted one and receiving this record player (insert photo) was a beloved gift. It has followed me from switching rooms in my house to traveling three hours away for my undergraduate education., and the wonderful tank still works like a charm

Getting a record playing jumpstarted my need to collect and purchase various vinyl records, despite how much my bank account cries because of it. It is also how I came into possession of my grandfather’s and his mom’s collections. My grandfather gave me all of them for Christmas the year that I got the record player.

Some of my personal vinyls are Billy Joel’s The Stranger, which I found in a thrift store near my undergrad, and Sleeping at Last’s Atlas: Space. My music taste is quite broad and as a result most of the genres that are represented by my thirteen records are all over the place. However, other generations are more specific to one or two genres.

I am extremely grateful to all of my friends and family who have gifted records to me. I am also grateful to these people as each person has shaped me and my music taste in some fashion.”

This site is generated using CollectionBuilder-GH, a project to create a free and simple digital collection using GitHub Pages from:

• a CSV of collection metadata
• a folder of JPG images or PDF documents

For full details of creating your own collection site, visit CollectionBuilder Documentation!

About the About Page

We want to make engaging interpretive pages easier to create, so CollectionBuilder gives you tools to write with your collection content!

The template comes with a customizable “About” page layout designed for long form content with rich media embeds. Content is written in Markdown and enhanced using “includes” that pull in collection content, external media, and Bootstrap features like cards and modals. We hope this makes it easier for site builders to develop the collection AND add interesting and engaging contextual information.

Each “include” file has several options, which are documented in the files themselves–copy the examples to see how it works with your content! In the demo below, we’ve given display widths of 25% and 50% to save space, but you can feature the entire image or document.

You can also see a page featuring a bonanza of feature includes options on our CollectionBuilder-GH demo site.

Include Collection Items

The template provides includes to pull your collection objects and metadata into your interpretive page, allowing you to write with your materials directly embedded in the content.

Include an Image

• Image –> {% include feature/image.html objectid="demo_001" width="75" %}

Include a PDF

• PDF – > {% include feature/pdf.html objectid="demo_002" width="50" %}

Include a Video

• Video: {% include feature/video.html objectid="demo_004" %}

Include an Audio File

• Audio: {% include feature/audio.html objectid="demo_003" %}

Include Bootstrap Features

The template also provides includes to make it easier to add Bootstrap components to your Markdown writing. These features allow you to better organize and highlight your content.

Include a Card

• Card – > {% include feature/card.html header="This is a Card" text="The card features an image from the collection as a cap" objectid="demo004" width="25" centered=true %}

Include a Button

• Buttons – > {% include feature/button.html text="Button Link to Somewhere" link="https://collectionbuilder.github.io/" color="success" %}

Include an Alert

• Alerts – > {% include feature/alert.html text="this is an *alert* that 'warns' a user" color="warning" align="center" %}

Include a Modal

• Modals – > {% include feature/modal.html button="This is a modal using a 'primary' colored button to invite clicking" title="when clicked:" text="A Modal will pop out a box with some more information" color="primary" %}