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Further view of deck of the "Bear", Huntington Digital Library

Photograph album of Mr. & Mrs. French Gilman, 1901. Chickens and rooster feeding, Huntington Digital Library

International map of the world Songkhla, Thailand, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

General Map of Vienna – Printed and published by the Cartographic Institute G. Freytag & Berndt, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

The Daily journal-herald. (Delaware, Ohio), 1929-02-11, Ohio Memory

Australia 1_250,000 geological series, Rason, Western Australia sheet SH 51-3, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Alliance daily review. (Alliance, Ohio), 1900-07-26, Ohio Memory

Southern Pacific Railroad lines and Alameda St., Los Angeles. 1930., Huntington Digital Library

Interview with Angelina McDonald, 1986, UTSA

Waveform of Interview with Bob Angel, 1984, UTSA

Page from The Link, 1984, Stevens Institute of Technology

D.B. Cooke Co.'s railway guide for Indiana stations connecting with Indianapolis - entered in the year 1854, pub. by D.B. Cooke Co., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Dutch Flat Station. 67 miles from Sacramento. Altitude 3,416 feet, Huntington Digital Library

Cover of The Link, 1957, Stevens Institute of Technology

Page from The Link, 1903, Stevens Institute of Technology

Page from The Link, 1976, Stevens Institute of Technology

Interview with Gabino Rodriguez, November 15, 2011, UTSA

The Santa Anita Ranch, San Gabriel, Huntington Digital Library

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CONTENTdm helps libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions make unique digital collections easier to discover, manage, and connect.

Powerful discovery is just the beginning. Built on OCLC’s digital collection management expertise, CONTENTdm combines WorldCat and search visibility, exhibits and storytelling, and linked data to expand the reach and long-term impact of unique collections.

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Increase the visibility of your collections

Help more people discover, explore, and use your unique collections through improved discovery experiences, exhibits, metadata, and interoperability. While many platforms focus on managing collections, CONTENTdm extends discovery beyond your website, helping your collections reach users wherever they begin their research. WorldCat visibility, strong metadata, search optimization, exhibits, storytelling, and related content recommendations make it easier for people to find and engage with the materials you’ve preserved.

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Help staff do more with the resources they have

Reduce manual work, improve metadata quality, streamline workflows, and process collections more efficiently. CONTENTdm gives staff a fully hosted, browser-based platform with bulk workflows, OCR, and metadata tools. Spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time building, describing, and sharing your collections.

Scale collections without increasing technology overhead

Grow your collections without taking on server maintenance, upgrade cycles, or infrastructure management. CONTENTdm supports the standards and technologies that keep collections connected as the digital ecosystem evolves. IIIF, APIs, OAI-PMH, linked data, and metadata standards help make collections discoverable, shareable, and reusable across the web and other platforms.

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CONTENTdm by the numbers

89M
Digital items

28
Countries

270 TB
Digital items stored

675+
Sites

20+ years
Of experience

“[CONTENTdm] allows us to really reach out to others who might not know we have that material. It’s satisfying for me as a librarian to know that they can find it and use it, that it has value.”

Mario Einaudi
Head of Digital Collections and Imaging Services
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

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From local treasure to global discovery

Every community has stories worth preserving. CONTENTdm helps institutions make those stories accessible to researchers, students, communities, and audiences around the world.

See how institutions are using CONTENTdm to preserve and share the collections that matter most.

Maps Oral histories Newspapers Yearbooks Photography

The American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

The American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection contains over 20,000 maps, ranging from early maps of Asia to historical maps of Wisconsin and Milwaukee, and other American cities, states, and national parks.

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Gallery of audio waveforms, interview transcripts, and video thumbnails

UTSA Oral History Collection

A collection of more than 1000 oral histories from the holdings of UTSA Libraries Special Collections. The bulk of the interviews in this collection are part of the Institute of Texan Cultures Oral History Collection.

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Ohio Memory Newspapers Collection

The Ohio History Connection provides free access to over one million full-text searchable pages of Ohio newspapers.

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The Stevens Yearbooks Collection

The Stevens Yearbooks Collection includes the current yearbook, The Link (1890 to the present), as well as its predecessors, The Eccentric (1874-1890) and The Bolt (1883-1890). In 1890, the latter two publications agreed to consolidate and form The Link, which derives its name from the "linking" of the two yearbooks.

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The Huntington Digital Library Photographs Collection

Photographs in the digital collection primarily document the history and development of the American West, with an emphasis on 20th-century Southern California and Los Angeles.

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Whether you’re planning a new digital collection or expanding an existing one, our team can help you explore how CONTENTdm can support your goals, workflows, and community.

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“This is a terrific way of telling stories because, increasingly, we’ve become a visual culture. CONTENTdm allows us to present an image with plenty of space for adequate metadata to explain that image.”

Susan Sutton
Indiana Historical Society

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Frequently asked questions

Why has OCLC launched a new CONTENTdm?

The needs of libraries, archives, and museums have advanced significantly, and the ways that people discover and access their unique and special collections are evolving. CONTENTdm has been completely redesigned from the ground up based on input from the community to meet the digital collection management needs of today and for the future, through broader reach, richer discovery experiences and more efficient stewardship—thus creating greater value for your institution and community.

In what regions is the new CONTENTdm available?

The new CONTENTdm is now available to new and existing customers in the United States. We’re expanding availability to additional regions in 2027. Please fill out the contact form for more information.

I have the classic version of CONTENTdm. When and how can I migrate to the new CONTENTdm?

OCLC sales and implementation staff will work with existing customers to determine their implementation timeline based on factors such as collection complexity and availability of the staff and resources required at the customer institution. If you are a current customer and would like to discuss migrating to the new CONTENTdm, please fill out the contact form.

I don’t currently have CONTENTdm. How can I learn more about purchasing?

We are very excited to tell you more about CONTENTdm. Please fill out the contact form to connect with a specialist.

Explore enhanced capabilities with CONTENTdm Premium

CONTENTdm Premium extends collection management and discovery with intelligent automation that accelerates backlog processing, improves metadata, and helps staff accomplish more without adding resources.

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Advanced automations

Automated metadata generation
Automated audio/video transcripts
Alt-text generation
On-demand translation

Expanded technology

OCLC Meridian integration
OCLC Meridian APIs
Expanded storage
Expanded OCR capabilities

Content enrichment

Mixed-media exhibits
Related content recommendations
Enhanced linked data entity management
Richer discovery experiences

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Why CONTENTdm?

Built on OCLC’s digital collection management expertise
CONTENTdm benefits from OCLC’s decades of experience connecting library collections and information through high-quality metadata. Integrated authority controls support standards and vocabularies including LCNAF, LCSH, FAST, and Getty AAT.

Built for discovery beyond your repository
CONTENTdm helps unique collections become part of a broader discovery ecosystem through WorldCat visibility, search optimization, linked data, exhibits, storytelling, and related content.

Built for connection
Standards-based interoperability, including IIIF, OAI-PMH, and open APIs, makes it easier to share, connect, and reuse collection content across platforms and technologies. The new CONTENTdm is also FedRAMP-compliant. Visit our Trust Center for more information on compliance, reliability, privacy, and security.

Built for cultural heritage institutions
CONTENTdm is designed around the needs of libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions responsible for preserving and sharing unique collections.

Built to reduce technology overhead
CONTENTdm is fully hosted, so OCLC manages infrastructure, maintenance, and upgrades while your staff focus on the collections themselves.

Built for what’s next
CONTENTdm provides a foundation for evolving discovery and collection management, with linked data and integrations that help institutions adapt as technologies and user expectations change.

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CONTENTdm is the digital collection management platform that helps libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions make unique digital collections easier to discover, manage, and connect.