Web Harvester and Connexion digital import enhancements

OCLC is pleased to announce that enhancements to both Web Harvester and Connexion digital import were recently released. 

With Web Harvester, the new functionality allows you to select and deselect files to be included in or excluded from your harvest—giving you even more control over the Web content that you harvest and ingest. Additionally, both Web Harvester and Connexion digital import ingest workflows have changed so that the items require Approval in CONTENTdm Administration. This enables you to make metadata edits, via the Approve queue, prior to indexing. It also aligns these workflows with standard CONTENTdm workflows. What’s more, the enhancements fix a known issue of ingests to CONTENTdm from Web Harvester and Connexion digital import “freezing.”

The Web Harvester is an option for users of the CONTENTdm Hosting Services who want to add Web-based content, such as government documents, subject specific Web sites, or organizational Web sites, to their digital collections. While Connexion digital import enables catalogers using the Connexion client to add digital items to CONTENTdm collections during the cataloging process. By integrating digital collection creation with standard cataloging workflows, it offers another option to libraries seeking to expand participation in growing and maintaining their digital collections.

Learn more about Web Harvester

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