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CONTENTdm : At a glance

CONTENTdm at a glance

CONTENTdm provides a complete solution to help you store, manage and deliver your library’s digital collections to the Web. Showcase a wide range of media types from documents, newspapers, photographs and maps to audio and video files.

With CONTENTdm, you can turn your special collections into fully searchable online resources available from any Web browser. Add your collection’s metadata to WorldCat, and make your digital collections more visible to people on the Web.

Benefits

  • Easy to use—Templates, tutorials, comprehensive help files, batch processes and customizable out-of-the-box Web interfaces help you build and post collections efficiently.
  • Flexible—You have full control over the descriptions, access and display of your digital resources including the ability to edit all metadata fields. CONTENTdm is 100% Web compatible, so servers and collections can be administered from remote desktops.
  • Open, extensible, and interoperable—Import/export capabilities are compatible with legacy, local, regional and national systems. The open architecture supports extensions and a complete PHP-based API is available.
  • Standards-based—CONTENTdm supports numerous industry standards including Dublin Core 1.1, VRA, XML, HTTP and OAI.
  • Secure—Restrict access to collections or items by user name or IP address, or limit access to images while allowing access to metadata.
  • Scalable—Seamless upgrades add capacity without requiring new software installation.
  • Discovery through WorldCat—Add your metadata to WorldCat and share your collections with other libraries and on the Web through WorldCat.org.
  • Supports community—OCLC offers high quality support and comprehensive help files and tutorials. The large and active user community shares best practices as well as locally-developed extensions through the CONTENTdm listserv, regional user groups, and other collaborations.

Features

  • Components—CONTENTdm includes the Server, the Acquisition Station, and JPEG2000 and OCR Extensions depending on license level. No additional database or application software is required. End user collection access is available from any Web browser, restricted only by your security limitations on items or collections. 
  • Support for complex media—Build documents, books and other multiview and multipage materials. Present video and audio files with related transcripts.
  • Solutions for newspapers and text-based items—Provide full access to your digital newspapers and other text-based items, including their transcripts and metadata, and side-by-side image and text display. Highlights: Import of NDNP data format, support for full article segmentation, JPEG2000 for large format pages, electronic article clipper – and – the inclusion of newspapers with other media items in the same collection.
  • Batch import tools—Import images and metadata quickly and easily, as well as text files for full-text searching. Batch import for documents, books, and other multipage materials is also supported.
  • JPEG2000—Integrated JPEG2000 capability, supports high-quality, large format images—without a browser plug-in.
  • Image rights options—Band, brand or watermark images. Band using a band of color and words, brand using icons and words, or watermark using grayscale images.
  • Integrated ABBYY FineReader® OCR option for full-text searching—Capture text for addition to searchable metadata fields within your collections. When viewed, items prepared with this feature will display highlighted search terms within the image.
  • Controlled vocabulary—Use the Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphical Materials I or use your own vocabularies.
  • Customizable user experience—Create predefined queries across or within collections with an easy-to-use wizard. All interfaces are also customizable by your programming staff. 
  • Hosting Services—Host your own collections or let OCLC do it for you.

Additional options

JPEG2000 Extension—Convert full resolution files to JPEG2000 or import existing JPEG2000 files; supports dynamic decompression and display of JPEG2000 images in standard browsers without the need for plug-ins.

Integrated OCR—Build collections more efficiently—and provide full-text searching--with the integrated OCR (optical character recognition) capability.

Multi-Site Server—Query multiple CONTENTdm Servers in remote locations from a single search interface.

CONTENTdm Implementation Services—Services designed to leverage your time, resources and knowledge most effectively. We'll help you plan your digitization project and move it along—ensuring that your first CONTENTdm collection is a quick success.

Requirements

System requirements

Related services

OCLC Digitization Services