How to Troubleshoot Apps for the Modern Connected Worker
CONTENTdm Presentation 060711
1. Overview of
June 7, 2011
CONTENTdm
The University of
Winnipeg
Suzanne Butte
Digital Services Consultant
Nigel Long
Library Services Consultant
2. Today’s agenda
• Overview of CONTENTdm
• Users’ collections and a look at CONTENTdm 6
• Demonstration
• What’s next for CONTENTdm?
3. CONTENTdm
Digital Collection Management Software
A complete software solution
Stores, manages and provides access for all your digital collections
• Your digital collections reside on a CONTENTdm Server, either installed locally or
on an OCLC-hosted server
For organizations of all types and sizes
• Academic libraries, public libraries, historical societies, museums, state libraries,
special and others
Offers open architecture; standards-based for staff efficiencies and
cost effectiveness
• Dublin Core, JPEG2000, OAI Harvesting, PHP API and more
Showcases a wide range of media types
• Photos and documents to audio and video files
4. CONTENTdm manages all types of materials
• Images - photographs, posters,
postcards, paintings, etc.
• Historical documents – journals,
diaries, letters, etc.
• Printed materials – newspapers,
yearbooks, reports, PDFs, etc.
• EAD Finding Aids
• Audio/video – oral histories,
historic films, lectures, etc.
5. CONTENTdm user community
• Over 800 licenses worldwide of which over 400 are using
Hosting Services
• Of which 22 licenses are in Canada (e.g. University of
Saskatchewan, Memorial Univ., University of British Columbia)
• Over 2,000 users with consortia and collaborative
arrangements
• Engaged user community
• Regional Users Group Meetings
• Forums and blogs
• CONTENTdm Metadata Working Group
• Beta programs
6. CONTENTdm 6 system architecture
Web
Collection
services Web
management (Flex Loader,
Catcher)
browsers
• CONTENTdm Project Clients
• CONTENTdm Web Form
OCR Extension Server
(Linux or Windows 2008) Website
Administrative
tools
• Reports
Custom
• Authorization settings web
•Approve/index
• Upload to WorldCat interfaces
7. WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway
• Offers self-service tools to upload the metadata of your unique digital
collections to WorldCat
• Enables you to set your OCLC holdings symbol for each record
uploaded to WorldCat
• End users can quickly click through to your local digital content
• Freely available for use with any OAI-compliant repository, including
CONTENTdm
9. Best practices for creating shareable metadata
• Best Practices for CONTENTdm
and other OAI-PMH compliant repositories
-creating shareable metadata-
• www.oclc.org/gateway/support/best_practices.pdf
10. The University of British Columbia
http://angel.library.ubc.ca/index.php
13. CONTENTdm 6
• Released early March 2011
• End-user interface redesign
• Website Configuration Tools
14. CONTENTdm 6: newly redesigned
• The result of extensive usability
testing
• An end-user interface that
consistently has passed usability
tests with 97% of users able to
accomplish their tasks
• It now offers even simpler
access to digital items, easier
navigation paths and more
avenues for discovery
15. New CONTENTdm end-user interface
• Enhanced image viewer for zooming, panning and improved viewing
of many file types: compound objects, images, PDFs, video/audio
• Features that support discoverability: QuickView, suggested
topics, sharing, RSS feeds, image carousels
• The ability to share digital items via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook,
Flickr and many more
16. See the new CONTENTdm…
CONTENTdm 6 Sandbox: http://sandbox.contentdm.org/
19. New CONTENTdm Website Configuration Tools
Provides simpler ways to configure and customize
• Easier to apply a branded look and feel: Configuration tools
make it easy to add a name, headers, colors, logos, customer
headers, descriptions and more
• Additional customization is possible: Ability to add custom
HTML or PHP pages
• Easier to maintain customizations: Customizations will persist
through future software updates
20. CONTENTdm 6: optimized for customization
Configurations are stored in layout and configuration files
(global and by collection).
Quick Configuration Tool = 3 steps to get started
• Quickly creates a simple functional site
• Use it once and probably not again
Website Configuration Tool = for ongoing fine tuning
• Can do what Quick Config does and more
• Configurations grouped into categories
• Configurations control appearance and behavior
• Configurations will continue to evolve
22. Search Engine Optimization
• Improved SEO means improved discoverability through
search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing
• CONTENTdm 6 helps SEO with:
• RESTful URLs
• Crawlable HTML: no tables, no i-frames
• Separates presentation layer from application layer
• Recognizable site hierarchy: breadcrumbs
• Efficient crawler path
• Title tag at top of page
• Javascript in separate file, not on every page
23. Building your CONTENTdm collections
1. Define your collection
• Configure your metadata schema
2. Populate your collection
• Add digital items and metadata
3. Configure and share your digital
collections
• On your CONTENTdm website!
• And via WorldCat.org
24. 1. Define your collection
Configure the collection metadata schema – Dublin Core
• A group of objects (items) that share the same
metadata scheme
• 350 collections per license
Simple or Qualified Dublin Core supported
Title required
125 fields per collection
128,000 characters per field
16 million items per collection
26. What’s next with CONTENTdm?
• Additional viewers and end-user
experience improvement
• Social features like commenting,
tagging and rating
• Extended website configuration
and customization toolset
• And more…
27. Social features – commenting, tagging, rating
• Pilot with University of Leceister
28. Evaluate CONTENTdm 6
• A hosted evaluation that enables you to try
the full CONTENTdm right away
• We set everything up for you
• No charge 60-day evaluation
• Just complete the evaluation form at
www.oclc.org/contentdm/evaluate/
29. In summary
CONTENTdm 6 provides a new
and dynamic end-user
experience, plus you
have control of your digital
collection’s public interface.