Transcript CONTENTdm

Web Seminar
November 2008
CONTENTdm® 4.3
Software Overview
Geri Ingram
OCLC Digital Collection Services
Manager, User Services
Agenda for demonstration
• Define terms
• Configure a CONTENTdm collection
• Build a CONTENTdm Project
• Import items, apply metadata, upload items
• Approve and index a Collection
• Further resources
• Q&A
Architecture
Acquisition Station
JPEG2000 or
“clients”
OCR Extension
Administration tools
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Configure collections
Maintain metadata
Controlled vocabularies
Statistics
Authorization settings
Export…
• Custom Web interfaces
WorldCat.org
Web-based
‘Add’
WorldCat
Local
Google®, etc.
Server
Unix (Linux, Solaris) or
Windows (2000, 2003)
OCLC
Connexion
digital
import
Web
browsers
Archival
repository
Configuring a collection
• What’s a Collection?
• A group of objects (items) that
• Share the same metadata schema
• Live on the same CONTENTdm server
• How many Collections can I have?
• Up to 200 collections per server—more in CONTENTdm 5
• How many items can be in a collection?
• 16 million items per collection
Populating a collection
Using the Acquisition Station, through the use of a “Project”
What’s a CONTENTdm Project?
A workspace
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Into which you import up to 5000 items at a time
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That live on the workstation until uploading to the server
A group of settings
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Decisions about image rights
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Automatic metadata generation
How many Projects can I have at one time?
Limited only by your disk space on the workstation
RELATIONSHIP of Collection to Projects
A single Collection
Many Projects
Project 1
Project 2
Collection
Project 3
What’s a CONTENTdm object or item?
• CONTENTdm can store/index/search items in various
formats
• Display any file format:
• Viewed with a Web browser natively
• Or viewed via a plug-in
• Includes: JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, MrSID®, PDF, html, WAV or
MP3 audio, AVI or MPEG video
• Simple items or compound objects
CONTENTdm Compound Objects
• CONTENTdm defined classes
• Documents
• Monographs (Structured documents)
• Postcards
• Picture Cube (six-sided views)
CONTENTdm and the Dublin Core
Step one: on the Server
Configure the Collection Metadata schema
• Dublin Core element set offered
• Only DC.Title required
• 128,000 characters per field
• 100 fields per collection—125 in CONTENTdm 5
Step two: Populate Collection
Three ways:
1.
Add items from the Web browser
2. Attach digital items to WorldCat records
(currently only available to OCLC hosted
collections)
3. Build Project on the Acquisition Station
Populate collection—
Add from the web browser
Populate collection—
Connexion digital import
WorldCat.org
OCLC#
hyperlink to
digital content
WorldCat
Connexion
Cataloger
w/ Connexion
Client
Attach digital
content to
WorldCat record
CONTENTdm
Import
MARC  QDC
TIFF  JP2K
OCR, PDF
CONTENTdm
CONTENTdm
Collection
Administrator
Configure
CONTENTdm
collection with
Qualified Dublin Core
Populate Collection—
Build Project on the Acquisition Station
Acquisition Station
Project tools
Template Creator
• Automatic metadata
generation
• Fill-in text constants
Step 3: The end-user experience—
Find it, Get it, Use it!
• Interfaces (web templates) on the server
• Many levels, aspects to customization options
• Library can customize
• Globally
• Per collection
• Define “canned” queries
• End user sets personal retrieval preferences
The end-user experience—
Find it!
Find it! Search or Browse
Advanced search:
• Boolean across any/all collections
• Fielded
• By Proximity
• By Date
Get it! End-users’ preferred results formats
Retrieval preference– Grid View
Retrieval Preference: Grid view
Retrieval Preference: Thumbnail view
Retrieval preference: Bibliographic view
Browse – Titles Only
Retrieval Preference: Titles only view
Sort Search Results and Prioritize Field Display
Retrieval Preference: “Hierarchical” view
Use it! End user saves “My Favorites”
Online presentations
Easy to
• Compare
• Manipulate
• Re-order
• Save and
republish
CONTENTdm PowerPoint Plug-in
Now available
• Support for Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Windows Vista.
• Support for JPEG2000 images. The plug-in will automatically
download JPEG derivatives form JPEG2000 images for use in PowerPoint
slides.
• Search capabilities. Users can search collections for items to download
in addition to downloading items saved as My Favorites.
• My Favorites can now be downloaded when saved using Firefox 2.0
in addition to Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.
• More slide layout options. Users can chose to download one, two, or
four images per slide with or without titles and metadata.
PPT Plug-in
PPT Presentation
Imported into PPT
Many options for documents and newspapers
JPEG2000 Format
• Large format pages
• High compression
• High quality
Documents and newspapers
• Full text searching
• Page level
• Multiple issues
• Across collections
• Word highlighting
Newspapers
Two ways for clippings
1. Using standard clipping tool
• Select bounding rectangle
• Save, print, e-mail article
Newspapers
2. For papers with article segmentation
• Have scans processed to extract
article boundaries
• CONTENTdm
displays full
article, intact
New with CONTENTdm 4.3
• Faster, comprehensive PDF handling
• Mainstream cataloging using OCLC WorldCat
• Connexion digital import
• Attach CONTENTdm items while cataloging in MARC
• Shareable controlled vocabularies
• ‘Click-box’ interface for important viewer settings
DEMO will show how to:
• Configure a CONTENTdm collection
• Build a CONTENTdm Project
• Import items, apply metadata, upload items
• Approve and index a Collection
Questions & Answers
Tour of the User Support Center
End users who need more help?
• Your institution or consortial
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
• Local OCLC Regional Service Provider or Network
• [email protected]
Toll free at 877 797 0887
Info email:
[email protected]
CONTENTdm Trainers Contacts:
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Illinet
Alyce Scott
[email protected]
Solinet
David Greenebaum
[email protected]
BCR
Regan Harper
[email protected]
WiLS
Kirsten Houtman
[email protected]
Nelinet
Erin Logsdon:
[email protected]
CONTENTdm Training contacts
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Ohionet
Roman Panchyshyn
[email protected]
MLNC
Keri Cascio
[email protected]
OCLC Eastern
Irene Hoffman
MINITEX
Sara Ring
[email protected]
[email protected]
AMIGOS
Chris Peterson
[email protected]
INCOLSA
Pat McWilliams
[email protected]
Contact for CONTENTdm Training
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OCLC Western Services
Gayle Palmer
[email protected]
Nylink
Joyce Rambo
[email protected]
Nebase
Allana Novotny
[email protected]
Palinet
Tom Ceresini
[email protected]
MLC
Aaron Smith
[email protected]