Presentations from CONTENTdm sessions at ALA 2006 midwinter conference in San Antonio
CONTENTdm sessions at the ALA Midwinter conference in San Antonio featured current users and their experiences using CONTENTdm. These included separate forums focused on digitization efforts for complete digital collection management and the use of CONTENTdm for collaborations and partnerships.
CONTENTdm: success stories for complete digital collection management
Oregon State University
Terry Reese presented the collection and CONTENTdm development efforts at Oregon State University. Terry has written source code and detailed documentation for projects that extend CONTENTdm functionality. Projects include an e-commerce extension; an XML gateway to facilitate federated searching; EAD implementation; and a translation/RSS feed generator for CONTENTdm’s OAI. All code is available to the CONTENTdm user community.
Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Kristi Palmer and Amanda Hurford presented the CONTENTdm projects at Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis. IUPUI’s digital materials visually represent their history and development as a teaching facility, an academic institution, a continually transforming campus, and an ever-growing group of students, faculty, and staff. Additional collections include images and documents relating to local, community, and regional history. Among their many media items are maps, books, directories and a newspaper. (Some collection materials use the CONTENTdm OCR Extension.)
CONTENTdm: digital collection building through collaboration and partnerships
Whether operating on a single system to support regional collection building or serving a community of related organizations that pool resources to sustain digital collections, CONTENTdm is being used to support a full range of collaborative models.
University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library
Kenning Arlitsch presented the range of partnerships and collaborations that have been implemented at the University of Utah. These initiatives include support of other campus departments, hosting of organizations in the community (museums, libraries), leadership of regional and discipline-oriented collaborations with remote institutions, and many other variations. Kenning recounted their experiences, lessons learned, and best practices.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Cornell University Digitization Initiative
Ira Revels from Cornell University presented the plans and progress of this Mellon-funded collaboration program. The initiative is training HBCU librarians and archivists in techniques of digital imaging and will result in the development of a CONTENTdm-based collaborative digital library including a wide variety of records reflecting the history of HBCU. Ira discussed how CONTENTdm was selected, the highlights of their implementation plan, and issues and solutions they’ve addressed.
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