ALA Annual Meeting

Claire CoccoGlobal Product Manager

CONTENTdm Users Group

June 30th, 2008

CONTENTdm Update

• Recent News• JPEG2000 Licensing

• Web site update

• PowerPoint Plug-in

• Next Release

JPEG2000 Licensing

• Announced a change in JPEG2000 licensing for the coming year

• No more restrictions on JPEG2000 Acquisition Stations

• All Acquisition Stations are JPEG2000

• No extra charge for JPEG2000 Acquisition Stations

• No more separate AMA fees for additional JPEG2000 Acquisition Stations

• All organizations have received a letter with details about the licensing change

• Users without JPEG2000 upgraded in early July

CONTENTdm Web Site

•Completing first phase of Web site upgrade

• New content on www.oclc.org/contentdm/

• New www.contentdm.com home page

• USC and Help Files remain the same

•Phase two – USC upgrade• Interactive online community

•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.

• Live demonstration…

CONTENTdm PowerPoint Plug-in

•CONTENTdm 5 • Unicode• Search engine• Approve and index• Archival file management• Reports• Acquisition Station• EAD• And more…

The Next Release

• Find search engine• Runs WorldCat

• Robust capacity and new features• Faceted browsing• Relevancy ranking• All fields combined with selected fields• Spelling suggestion• Unicode searching

• Pilot project with Simon Fraser University• Chinese language newspapers

CONTENTdm 5

http://content.lib.sfu.ca/ctimes/browse.php

CONTENTdm 5

• Approving items• Scheduled approve option

• One-click approve and index

• Subset approve

• More feedback • Number of items pending

• Controlled vocabulary

CONTENTdm 5

CONTENTdm 5

CONTENTdm 5

CONTENTdm 5

• Indexing• Scheduled index option

• Indexing happens in the background

• More feedback on indexing status

• Immediate indexing option still available

CONTENTdm 5

CONTENTdm 5

• New Archival File Management• Full Resolution Manager changed into two options

• Display Image Settings• Archival File Management

• Enable functionality independently • Don’t need to track volumes when only want to

convert full resolution images• Can track volumes for all files, not just images

• Volume manifest generated for each volume • Digital Archive compatibility

CONTENTdm 5

• Reports• New report module

• More robust

• Expanded reports• Views by collection and item

• Top searches within CONTENTdm

• Web statistics by month, day, hour

• Top URLs, referring sites, browsers, countries, and more

CONTENTdm 5

CONTENTdm 5

• Improved EAD handling• Enhancing both import and display

• User-defined field mapping

• Display more integrated with CONTENTdm interface

• Import will require XSD

• Need more sample data

CONTENTdm 5

• Acquisition Station replaced• Project Client

• Brand new application• More robust

• Improved efficiency

• Unicode

CONTENTdm 5

• Project Client highlights• Home page paradigm

• Shared projects

• Better search functionality

• Compound object editing

• Upload Manager• No more FTP

• Expanded Template Creator

• Preview…

CONTENTdm 5

• Controlled Vocabulary• Adding thesauri from OCLC Terminologies Service

• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) ®• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Type Vocabulary• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) ®• Guidelines On Subject Access To Individual Works Of Fiction,

Drama, Etc., 2nd ed., form and genre• Māori Subject Headings / Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku• Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) 2008• Newspaper Genre List• Thesaurus for Graphic Materials• Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) ®

CONTENTdm 5

• And more…

• Increased capacity• 125 metadata fields per collection

• Increase in total number of collections per server

• Designate required fields

• Extension of Connexion digital import feature

• Highlights and major changes covered today• Full details on all new functionality available with release

CONTENTdm 5

• Available Fall 2008

• Watch the listserv for announcements• Web sessions

• Availability

• Full feature list

Questions?