CONTENTdm & The Digital Collection Gateway New Looks for Discovery and Delivery

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1 CONTENTdm & The Digital Collection Gateway New Looks for Discovery and Delivery EVERY CONNECTION has a starting point. OCLC EMEA Regional Council Meeting Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt 2 nd March 2011 Russ Hunt CONTENTdm Product Specialist

2 Agenda What is CONTENTdm CONTENTdm In EMEA CONTENTdm Version 6 WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway Rafael Roset, Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Barcelona

3 What is CONTENTdm? A complete digital collection management software solution Stores, manages and provides access for all digital collections For organizations of all types and sizes academic libraries, public libraries, historical societies, museums, state libraries, cultural heritage organizations and others Standards-based for staff and system efficiencies Dublin Core, Unicode, EAD, JPEG2000, OAI-PMH for Harvesting, PHP API and more Automatically creates your Web site You: Organize, Catalogue, Publish End users: Find, Retrieve, Use

4 What is CONTENTdm? Intuitive/Easy to use Flexible and fully customisable Can serve as an Institutional Repository Scalable Open, extensible and interoperable Discovery through WorldCat Extensive support and documentation Vibrant, global user community

5 CONTENTdm collections of images: Photographs, posters, postcards, maps and more

6 CONTENTdm collections of documents: Text-based letters, PDFs, journals, reports and more

7 CONTENTdm collections of newspapers

8 CONTENTdm collections of audio and video

9 Gemeente Archief Veenendaal - Netherlands Veenendaal

10 GBV Germany

11 University of Leicester - UK

12 CONTENTdm in Action CBUC Spain

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14 See more View live CONTENTdm collections Customers and collections Links to over 600 live CONTENTdm collections Demonstration collections Unicode (Chinese Characters) JPEG2000 EAD More

15 CONTENTdm 6 Release in early 2011 End-user interface redesign Web-site configuration tools

16 CONTENTdm Version Release Timeline Version 4.0 Jun 2005 EAD support PHP-based API which supports broader customizations and interoperability User Interface based on the new PHP API OCR Extension with ABBYY FineReader Version 4.1 Mar 2006 Redirects for obsolete URLS PHP 5.0 supported Version 4.2 Dec 2006 Multiple Compound Object Wizard OCR Extension upgraded to ABBYY FineReader Version 8 Ability to highlight, view and clip individual newspaper articles Search and browse by date range Version 4.3 Oct 2007 Easier to manage and access PDF documents, especially multiple-page PDFs Improved controlled vocabulary OCLC Connexion digital import Version 5.0 Dec 2008 New search engine adds Unicode Searching New Project Client Facetted Searching Version 5.1 May 2009 WorldCat Sync Digital Collection Gateway Version 5.2 Nov 2009 Project Client Auto Update Index Partitioning for large collections Version 5.3 Feb 2010 Windows 7 support for Project Client 64-bit OS support for server Version 6.0 Feb/Mar 2011

17 CONTENTdm 6 How different is CONTENTdm 6? New architecture New user interface New customization methods New configuration tools Fresh approach to the end-user experience and customisation requires fresh approach by CONTENTdm users

18 CONTENTdm 6 New Architecture (this is the old way ) Project Client OCR Extension Administration tools Reports Authorization settings Export, etc. Custom Web interfaces Web-based Add Server Unix (Linux, Solaris) or Windows (2003, 2008) Library Management System WorldCat.org WorldCat Local Google, etc. Web browsers Archival Repositories

19 CONTENTdm 6 Architecture - Technology Model View Controller architecture Isolates application logic from user interface Permits independent development, testing and maintenance of application and presentation layers

20 CONTENTdm 6 Architecture All on one box or separate boxes for scalability.

21 CONTENTdm 6 Website - Goals Ensure the new interface supports the end-user 1. Provides access to unique digital materials 2. Is intuitive, accessible, and supports end-users in their research goals 3. Is modern and familiar, and meets end-user expectations 4. Is fun, dynamic, and provides opportunity for discovery Provide simpler ways to configure and customise 1. Easier to apply a branded look and feel 2. Easier to maintain customisations

22 CONTENTdm end-user interface redesign Enhanced image viewer: zooming, panning New viewers: audio & video Easier access to features that support research-oriented goals: refining, suggested topics, printing, sharing, RSS feeds, breadcrumbs QuickView to keep users focused on their research Compound objects are easier to navigate and understand Communicative, dynamic results that always lets the end user know the context of their search results, as well as ways to search within a subset of results

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32 CONTENTdm Website configuration tools Provides simpler ways to configure and customize Quick Config & Website Configuration Tool Easier to apply a branded look and feel: Configuration tools make it easy to add a name, theme, headers, colors, logos, descriptions and more Additional customization is possible: Ability to add custom HTML or PHP pages Easier to maintain customizations: Customizations will persist through future updates

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35 Custom Home Page, Landing Page, About

36 and then, CONTENTdm 6.1 Release scheduled June 2011 New viewers (newspapers ) Print/Download Social features (comments,tagging, rating ) Improved discovery (localisation, accessibility ) Additional website config options New customisation methods (custom pages, Web based API )

37 WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway

38 Digital Collection Gateway share your digital collections Once your digital collections are built how do you share via the Web What s next? Promote your collections Increase discovery through WorldCat WorldCat.org WorldCat Local Google Yahoo! Search

39 Digital Collection Gateway share your digital collections

40 Digital Collection Gateway share your digital collections Digital Repository

41 Digital Collection Gateway share your digital collections Digital Repository

42 WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway Why put metadata in WorldCat? WorldCat is both destination & router How does the Gateway help me? WorldCat has syndication What are the visible results? WorldCat gets real traffic

43 Syndication WorldCat.org WorldCat Local Partners / Widgets / Plug-ins Facebook app(search WorldCat from the Facebook interface) Firefox, Yahoo!, Google toolbar plug-ins Google Book Search ( Find this book in a library ) Google Scholar ( Library Search )

44 Real traffic 2,000,000+ unique visits each month 700,000+ click-throughs each month Users only 3 clicks away from your digital content

45 How does the Gateway help me? Register your OAI repository your CONTENTdm server Create a profile for each OAI set each CONTENTdm collection Select harvesting frequency monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, annually + Ad Hoc sync

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60 In Summary Intuitive easy to use system for digital collection display and discovery Stores, manages and provides access for all digital collections Continual development cycle In use worldwide in libraries, museums and other cultural heritage organisations Global syndication of collections via WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway

61 CONTENTdm QuickStart Thank you Questions? Russ Hunt CONTENTdm Product Specialist Rafael Roset