Introducing the newly redesigned CONTENTdmIntroducing the newly redesigned CONTENTdm

March 31, 2011

Suzanne Butte, OCLCDigital Services Consultant

Today’s agendaToday’s agenda

• Overview of CONTENTdm

Suzanne ButteOCLC Digital Services Consultant

• Experience with CONTENTdm

Kristen YarmeyDigital Services LibrarianThe University of Scranton

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

CONTENTdmDigital Collection Management Software

CONTENTdm manages all types of materials 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• Historical documents – journals, diaries, letters, etc.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.

CONTENTdm user communityCONTENTdm user community

• More than 2,000 libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage institutions worldwide use CONTENTdm

• Engaged user community

• Regional Users Group Meetings

• Forums and blogs

• CONTENTdm Metadata Working Group

• Beta programs

CONTENTdm 6: newly redesignedCONTENTdm 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

New CONTENTdm end-user interfaceNew 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

New CONTENTdm Website Configuration ToolsNew 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

CONTENTdm 6: optimized for customizationCONTENTdm 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

Configuration ToolsetConfiguration Toolset

Current CONTENTdm user Current CONTENTdm user

“CONTENTdm 6 is a great step forward.

Using the new website configuration tools made it really simple and

quick to customize our digital archive Web site—I probably only needed

a couple of hours work.

And avoiding coding is really handy for sites like us with no in-house

technical support. The long-term sustainability of our CONTENTdm

instance is much more assured knowing that minimal technical input is

required from our end.”

Edward Kirkland

Project Manager, My Leicestershire Digital Archive

University of Leicester

See the new CONTENTdm…See the new CONTENTdm…

CONTENTdm 6 Sandbox: http://sandbox.contentdm.org/

• Kristen YarmeyDigital Services LibrarianThe University of Scranton

What’s next with CONTENTdm?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…

In summaryIn summary

With CONTENTdm 6, you save both time and money, plus you have full control of your digital collection’s public interface.

CatalogCatalog

ConfigureConfigure

PublishPublish

Evaluate CONTENTdm 6Evaluate CONTENTdm 6

• A hosted evaluation that enables you to try the fullCONTENTdm right away

• We set everything up for you

• No charge 60-day evaluation

• Just complete the evaluation form at www.oclc.org/contentdm/evaluate/

Suzanne Butte, OCLC Digital Services Consultantbuttes@oclc.org1-800-848-5878, ext. 5130

Ron Gardner, OCLC Digital Services Consultantgardnerr@oclc.org1-800-848-5878, ext. 6165

Thank you!Thank you!