Overview of the Odyssey Dashboard

The Odyssey Dashboard serves as your intuitive command center, meticulously designed to empower institutions in the strategic management and activation of their invaluable historical collections. Upon secure login, this central interface provides immediate access to a comprehensive suite of tools, streamlining your digital preservation and storytelling endeavors.

Key Features of the Odyssey Dashboard:

• Dynamic Navigation Panel: Located on the left, the adaptable navigation bar offers a clear pathway to your core functionalities. It can be effortlessly expanded to reveal descriptive item titles or condensed to display concise icons, optimizing your workspace for clarity and efficiency. 

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• Customizable Dashboard: Designed to provide unparalleled strategic oversight for your institution, this feature empowers users to tailor their central interface with a curated selection of powerful widgets, ensuring that the most critical and relevant information is immediately accessible, thereby facilitating optimized workflow and informed decision-making aligned with your unique objectives. 
  • Recent Collections: This widget provides immediate visibility into your most recently accessed or actively managed collection initiatives. It serves as a swift gateway, enabling you to seamlessly resume work on ongoing projects and maintain continuous engagement with your primary historical asset groupings. 
  • Recent Items: Offering a direct conduit to individual historical items that have been recently reviewed or updated, this widget ensures continuity in your detailed research and focused curation efforts, placing recently engaged content at your fingertips. 
  • Recent Accessions: This crucial widget highlights your newest acquisitions or recently processed historical datasets. It ensures your institution remains consistently informed of its expanding digital heritage, showcasing the latest additions to your invaluable archives. 
  • Recently Added: Showcasing the digital assets most recently ingested or uploaded into the system, this widget provides a real-time perspective on newly digitized or integrated content, affirming the continuous growth and enrichment of your collections. 
  • This Day in History: Beyond mere data management, this widget connects your institution with a broader historical context. It presents significant events that occurred on the current date, enriching your daily engagement with the past and highlighting the enduring relevance of historical narratives. 
  • Records by Day: This analytical widget provides a clear, quantitative representation of your daily activity and the volume of records processed. It offers valuable insights into workflow patterns, resource utilization, and overall productivity in your digital preservation efforts. 
  • Top Collection Analysis: Delivering critical insights, this widget presents analytics on your most accessed or strategically important collections. It empowers data-driven decisions for resource allocation, engagement strategies, and the prioritization of your most impactful historical assets. 
  • Account Storage: This practical widget offers a transparent overview of your allocated and currently utilized digital storage resources. It ensures clear and efficient management of your institutional capacity within the Odyssey platform, enabling proactive planning. 
    
    
• Intelligent Search Functionality: The integrated search bar enables precise and rapid discovery across your entire Odyssey account. This powerful tool ensures that every piece of your digital collection is readily accessible, transforming vast archives into immediately usable historical assets. 

• Streamlined Import Gateway: The dedicated "Import" button facilitates seamless ingestion of your historical data. A user-friendly pop-up guides you through selecting your import type, whether it's comprehensive lists, diverse media files, or critical metadata, ensuring your content is accurately integrated.

   
  

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• Proactive Notification System: The notification icon provides timely updates and alerts, keeping you informed of system activities and important milestones. Each notification includes relevant dates, content summaries, and direct action links, ensuring you remain connected to the pulse of your digital initiatives. 

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• Personalized Account Management: The Account Menu offers essential administrative options, including access to Your Account details and a secure Log Out function. The My Collections feature (when enabled) provides the robust capability to establish and manage personalized collection containers that can be used for curation, research, or sharing, intuitively populated directly from your collection index. My Item Locks empowers users to effectively manage any item records that have been locked during the editing process, ensuring streamlined workflow control and uninterrupted access to your vital historical assets. 

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Support at Your Fingertips: The Help Menu

The Odyssey platform is unequivocally committed to empowering our users with readily accessible resources and dedicated assistance. Our comprehensive Help dropdown menu is strategically designed to provide immediate guidance and robust support, ensuring you can maximize your engagement with your historical assets and the Odyssey system.

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• Getting Started: This option serves as your foundational guide, seamlessly directing you to the Odyssey Knowledgebase Quick Start Guide. It's engineered to swiftly onboard you with the essential functionalities, ensuring a confident and efficient introduction to managing your digital collections effectively.
• Help Topics: For in-depth exploration and detailed understanding, selecting this option navigates you to the broader Odyssey Knowledgebase. This extensive repository provides comprehensive articles and expert insights, acting as an authoritative resource for all your system-related inquiries and advanced utilization.
• Submit a Ticket: Should you require personalized assistance or encounter specific challenges, this direct link to the Odyssey Support Portal ensures prompt and dedicated support from our expert team. We are committed to providing timely resolutions, minimizing any interruptions to your critical work with your invaluable historical assets.