Taylor Surface

Senior Product Manager

OCLC CONTENTdm® What’s New

Spring 2015 CONTENTdm User Conference

Goucher College

Baltimore MD

May 28, 2015

• Your unique digital resources … discoverable, visible, accessible, available

• Your collection … building the digital public good

• Your unique digital resources … linked in the Web of Things

What’s New ?

Your unique digital resources … discoverable, visible, accessible, available

Discoverable

Responsive Design • All devices • Usability tested

Visible

SEO • Harvestable

images • Navigable URL

patterns

Accessible

WCAG 2.0 Compliance

Perceivable Operable Understandable Robust

Available

IIIF Image API 2.0 • OpenSeaDragon • DPLA ready

Your collection … building the public good

The collective collection

Nearly 1,000 CONTENTdm sites Data centers in 4 countries

items online in CONTENTdm Nearly 2,500 repositories Harvested & synchronized with WorldCat

items discoverable in WorldCat

http://digital.experimental.worldcat.org

A digital hub

A statewide hub

Your unique digital resources … linked in the Web of Things

WorldCat, schema.org—helping libraries join the “web of things”

http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=456

Library Linked Data in the Cloud Godby, Wang and Mixter

A web of documents and the Web of Data (about `Things’)

Some outcomes

WorldCat Catalog: 15 billion triples

WorldCat Works: 5 billion RDF triples

DDC: 300 million

triples

VIAF: 2 billion triples

FAST: 23 Million

“If we believe there’s value to making our materials discoverable and usable to a wider audience of people, then we must begin a concerted effort to make our metadata interoperable with Web standards and to publish to platforms that more people use.” Kenning Arlitsch, 2014

Demo

Explore. Share. Magnify.

surface@oclc.org Taylor Surface