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• Historical documents – journals,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

8. Increasing discovery through WorldCat.org

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

11. University of Lethbridge
http://www.uleth.ca/lib/digitized_Collections/index.asp

12. Yearbooks in CONTENTdm
http://www.stolaf.edu/collections/digital/
http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/index_sie_muse.php?CISOROOT=/sie_muse

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/

17. Pepperdine University
http://cdm15730.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/

18. University of Leicester
http://cdm15731.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/

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

21. Configuration Toolset

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

25. Demonstration

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.

30. Thank you!
Suzanne Butte Nigel Long
OCLC Digital Services Consultant OCLC Library Services Consultant
buttes@oclc.org longn@oclc.org
1-800-848-5878, ext. 5130 1-877-858-2058