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The CONTENTdm Team Welcomes You to Seattle!

CONTENTdm User Group Meeting Midwinter ALA Seattle WA Jan 22, 2007 OCLC Digital Collection Services. The CONTENTdm Team Welcomes You to Seattle!. Greg Zick-- Vice President, OCLC Digital Services Division Jill Fluvog-- Director, Marketing and Sales, Digital Collection Services (DCS)

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The CONTENTdm Team Welcomes You to Seattle!

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  1. CONTENTdmUser Group MeetingMidwinter ALASeattle WAJan 22, 2007 OCLC Digital Collection Services

  2. The CONTENTdm Team Welcomes You to Seattle! Greg Zick--Vice President, OCLC Digital Services Division Jill Fluvog--Director, Marketing and Sales, Digital Collection Services (DCS) Craig Yamashita--Director,Product Technology, DCS Claire Cocco--Product Manager, DCS Geri Ingram--Manager, Customer Services, DCS Maxine Williams--Associate Product Manager, DCS Joe Tavares--Consulting Software Engineer, DCS Shane Huddleston--Systems Engineer, DCS (Not present: Lawrence Yapp, Henry Todd)

  3. CONTENTdmUser Group Meeting • Welcome and Introductions • OCLC Western welcomes you too! • User groups within the community • Using CONTENTdm 4.2 Features • CONTENTdm in OCLC Digital Collection Services • Table discussions

  4. Oklahoma 1 New Mexico 1 Texas 10 ~ 316 Licensed Sites Canada: 11 licensees (Newfoundland – 1 Nova Scotia – 1) British Columbia 2 Alberta 4 Alaska 2 Saskatchewan Manitoba Quebec 1 Ontario 2 New Brunswick Washington 18 Montana 2 Maine North Dakota 2 Minnesota 5 Oregon 8 VT 3 NH 1 MA 3 Idaho 2 Wisconsin 8 South Dakota 1 New York 24 Wyoming Michigan 10 RI 1 CT 3 Iowa 6 Pennsylvania 16 Nebraska 3 Nevada 4 Ohio 18 NJ 2 DE 1 MD 3 DC 1 Utah 7 Indiana 11 Illinois 10 Colorado 2 VA 2 WV 1 Kansas 5 California 20 Missouri 4 KY 3 N Carolina 3 Arizona 3 Tennessee 3 Arkansas 1 SC 1 Over 1000 users sites AL 4 MS 1 Georgia 2 LA 2 FL 4 Hawaii

  5. Building partnerships and CONTENTdm digital collections • Multi-regional or statewide consortia: AK, CA, FL, IA, IL, IN, NE, MN, MO, NY,OH, PA, WA, WI • Mountain West Digital Library – 20 members • Western Waters Digital Library - 30 members • Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive • Digital Library of Appalachia -12 members • Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance (HBCU) • Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive • REALIA Project –Assoc. Colleges of the Midwest, Assoc. Colleges of the South and the Great Lakes College Assoc. • Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC)– 62 members These and many more…

  6. CONTENTdm Statistics • 316 total licenses • 289 US • 27 International

  7. Who is RunningLocal CONTENTdm User Groups? • Opportunities for sharing and presentations at local and national venues • Poster sessions • Ohio User Group • Planning documents and calls for participation available

  8. Example activities Ohio planning second annual (day-long) meeting Tentative sessions: • Metadata • Web templates • Text projects (including OCR or Newspapers) • JPEG2000 • Publicizing and funding your collections • Cool customizations of your collection (blog, wiki, customized collections within collections) • Workflow

  9. Library & Information School Program • CONTENTdm being used to teach • In ALA-accredited LIS Programs • In MIS programs • In Community and Technical Colleges • At 23 institutions in US and Canada Advancing another new generation of digital librarians!

  10. CONTENTdm4.2 Using the new Product Features Claire Cocco, CONTENTdm Product Manager Digital Collection Services

  11. CONTENTdm 4.2 Released December 2006

  12. Acquisition Station Multiple Compound Object Wizard • Compound objects queued in the Add List are persistent • Remain in Add List until the compound object is built successfully or is deleted from the list • Close the Wizard without losing items waiting for upload • More flexibility in preparing and processing multiple compound objects

  13. Acquisition StationMultiple Compound Object Wizard

  14. Acquisition Station OCR Upgrade • Upgrade to ABBYY FineReader 8 • Support for TIF LZW and JPEG2000 images • OCR Settings (defined per project) • Recognition Language • Fast Mode • OCR existing items

  15. OCR Upgrade Recognition Languages • Support for 36 languages and dialects • Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, German New Spelling, German Luxembourg, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Mohawk, Norwegian, Portuguese Brazilian, Portuguese Portugal, Quechua, Sami, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Welsh, Zulu • Select multiple languages

  16. OCR Upgrade Fast Mode • Increases processing speed • Less accurate • ABBYY states that fast mode can increase the processing speed between 2 and 2.5 times the speed of regular OCR with a 1 to 1.5 times increase in the error rate • Use only for high quality, clean documents with simple layout

  17. Acquisition StationOCR Upgrade – Recognition Languages

  18. OCR Upgrade OCR Existing Items • Add OCR text to items already in collections • Choose metadata field for OCR text • Pre-existing metadata is overwritten • Perform OCR on display images or full resolution images, if available • Items must have file name in full resolution field • Full resolution images must be accessible

  19. Acquisition StationOCR Existing Items

  20. Server & Collection Delivery Compound Object Viewer • Hide/Show menu • Provides larger area for viewing images • Navigational thumbnail location • Thumbnail visible without reducing viewing area • Retain zoom settings • Zoom settings are retained when navigating within compound object • Static zoom and pan toolbar • Toolbar is always visible • Article highlighting

  21. Server & Collection DeliveryCompound Object Viewer

  22. Server & Collection DeliveryCompound Object Viewer

  23. Server & Collection DeliveryArticle highlighting

  24. Server & Collection Delivery Search by Date • Search by date option added to Advanced Search • Available if one or more collections have searchable date data type field • Date data type field must be mapped to Dublin Core date field

  25. Server & Collection DeliverySearch by Date

  26. Server & Collection Delivery Browse by Date • Browse by Date pages • Single collection (browse_dates_single.php) • Multiple collections (browse_dates.php) • Included in default Web Templates but NOT integrated in default Web site • Require customization to implement • One or more collections must have searchable date data type field • Date data type field must be mapped to Dublin Core date field

  27. Server & Collection DeliveryBrowse by Date – Multiple Collections www.contentdm.com/help4/custom/browsedate.html

  28. Server & Collection DeliveryBrowse by Date – Single Collection

  29. Server & Collection Delivery Collection Customization • Two options for customizing templates for individual collections • Scripted method built in • Duplicate and rename /cdm4 directory • Portable /cdm4 directory • Duplicate to test customizations, implement custom collection interfaces, or upgrade templates

  30. Collection ConfigurationCollection Customization • Configure search for customized collections • STY_global_style.php • Edit variable to change functionality • All – searches all collections, collection list displayed • None – searches current collection, collection list suppressed • Alias list – searches specified collections, collection list suppressed • Demo site and documentation available end of January

  31. Server & Collection Delivery Localization • Supports multiple language versions • Web Templates • dc.txt • Configure variable to enable • STY_global_style.php • Demo sites available end of January • English, French, Spanish • Documentation: www.contentdm.com/help4/custom/templates4.html

  32. Server & Collection DeliveryLocalization

  33. CONTENTdm 4.2More Information • User Support Centerhttp://www.contentdm.com/USC/index.asp • Feature list • Online user meeting recording • Download update kits • Upgrade and migration guides • Updated help files • Updated tutorials (End of January) • CONTENTdm Support • support@dimema.com

  34. CONTENTdm 4.2 • Questions?

  35. CONTENTdm in OCLC Digital ServicesFuture Directions Greg Zick Vice President, Digital Services Division

  36. CONTENTdm User Group MeetingSpecial focus • Table 1 Collaborating in your region • Table 2 User group formation • Table 3 Newspapers and documents improvements • Table 4 Importing from legacy collections • Table 5 Metadata decisions and workflow options

  37. Report out • A theme, idea, or answer • From each table • For each question

  38. Recurring themes • What is your current biggest challenge for digital collections today? • Time, adequate IT support, customizing code, preservation issues, communication • What digital collection project is your top priority next? • Collaborative projects, newspapers, audio, yearbooks

  39. Conclusion • See you in the other Washington!

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