Carpe CONTENTdm !

1. Carpe CONTENTdm! Congruous Coaxing and Customization Glee Willis Digital Projects Librarian University of Nevada, Reno CONTENTdm Success Stories for Total Digital Collection Management June 24, 2006 ALA New Orleans

2. CONGRUOUS “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation”

3. What Will I Cover? · What Are We Trying to Accomplish with CONTENTdm? · How Do We Decide on Our Collections? For Whom Are We Building Them? · Challenges We’ve Faced And Overcome · Coping Mechanisms · What’s On The Horizon?

4. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” What Are We Trying To Accomplish? a. Provide “Guided Tours” of Our Digital Collections b. Build Aesthetically Pleasing Collection “Experiences” c. Provide Geospatial Access Not Previously Provided d. Provide Global Access to Uniquely-Held Resources e. Provide Restricted Access to Teaching Collections f. Build Comprehensive Databases for Entire Image Collections (Anywhere on Campus) g. Foster Cross-Campus Collaborations (Campus Photos Collection) h. ALL OF THE ABOVE

5. A “guided tour”

6. An aesthetically pleasing collection “experience”

7. Geospatial access to collection content

8. Global access to uniquely-held resources

9. Creation of a comprehensive database

10. Restricted access to teaching collections

11. Cross-campus collaborations

12. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” How Do We Decide on Our Collections? For Whom Are We Building Them? • a. Started with the Obvious – Lake Tahoe • Got Practice Under Our Belts With A Few More • Collections (Barns, Lincoln Highway, Historic Maps) • Other Areas Outside of Special Collections Began to Understand What They Could Do With CONTENTdm • (Basque Posters, La Baskonia, Nevada Ag Pubs) • d. Now We Feel Confident Enough To Build Comprehensive Collections (Entire Photo Collections) • Audiences: The General Public • Scholars and Researchers • Users of Teaching Collections • Campus Community • PR Office

13. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” Challenges We’ve Faced And Overcome 1) Getting So Much Done With So Few People Content providers are responsible for arranging for scanning of resources Content providers are responsible for creating metadata for the resources Digital Projects Librarian runs around behind the curtains, making sure everything is working properly -- no matter how many server crashes, new versions, new code languages, new procedures for customizing, new nifty “add-ons”, and new collections come her way SysAdmin keeps server running, backed up, and updated with new versions Web Librarian works with content providers to create beautiful “portals”

14. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” Herding All The Cats

15. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” Challenges We’ve Faced And Overcome 2) Convincing Administrators To Stick With CONTENTdm 3) Being Early Adopters of New Versions and New Extensions 4) Lots and Lots of Technical Hurdles

16. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” Coping Mechanisms Collection-Specific Customizations JPEG2000 vs. Links to Alternative File Formats Advanced Search Checkboxes Restricted to Current Collection Collection Within A Collection ca. dates VRA Template Implementations

17. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” Collection-Specific Customizations

18. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” Collection-Specific Customizations switch > case > break > case > break default > break global_header.php global_menu.php

19. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” Collection-Specific Customizations

20. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” JPEG2000 vs. Links to Alternative File Formats From Drawer to Digital: A Statewide Collaboration for Building Digital Historical Maps Collections

21. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” Advanced Search Checkboxes Restricted to Current Collection

22. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” Collection Within A Collection

23. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” ca. Dates Entering date ranges ONLY works in the Acq Station.. You must also edit ANY record that includes a date range ONLY in the Acq Station. When you enter a date range into a “date” data type field in the Acq Station, it will automatically convert the range into the equivalent individual dates. Entering this: Becomes this: (remainder of box content not displayed)

24. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” VRA Template Implementation for Art and Architecture Collections Ed Teague’s Crosswalk – Our Starting Point

25. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” VRA Template Implementation for Art and Architecture Collections Our Data Dictionary, Modeled After Ed’s Crosswalk

26. “conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation” What’s On The Horizon? TOC Spell E-Commerce Trilingual Interface More Research Guides More Geospatial Searches More Document Collections Extraction of Metadata from TIFF Headers Web 2.0

27. THANK YOU! Contact info:Glee WillisDigital Projects LibrarianUniversity of Nevada, Renowillis@unr.eduOur digital projects are at:http://contentdm.library.unr.edu