Canto Cumulus - ETH Zürich Case study
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Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners. Page 1 of 2 GEN/mkCS-ETH/2010.03 Copyright ©2010 Canto GmbH. All rights reserved. www.canto.com Challenge The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) is one of the world’s leading universities. As ushers of many of the technological evolutions of the past century and a half, it’s no surprise ETH-Bibliothek (the university’s library) has accumulated a digital asset archive so valuable that even Google took notice. It’s also not surprising an organization like this would take such care in choosing a digital asset management (DAM) system to manage its archive—and make it easily accessible via the world’s favorite search engine. Solution Canto Cumulus wasn’t the first system ETH-Bibliothek considered—it was the last. Cumulus offered the balance of power and control ETH-Bibliothek needed to securely publish information online and handle virtually unlimited Internet use. To simplify account management, Cumulus could integrate with the university’s LDAP system—another big plus. But best of all, Cumulus was an open system the library could integrate with the world’s premiere marketing tool—Google—to lead Internet users right to the university’s virtual front door. Results and Benefits • Easy Web access to university archives that’s controllable, secure—and profitable. • Google/Cumulus interface has increased Web traffic almost 2,000% in a year. • University-wide central portal to archives encourages use, and benefits researchers. Archiving the archive ETH-Bibliothek started digitizing its photo archive during the late 1990s, and for good reason, explains Dr. Rudolf Mumenthaler, Head of Innovation and Marketing for ETH-Bibliothek. “Images had become increasingly important for teaching, documentation and research. We had to make our archive accessible.” Quickly outgrowing their first digital asset manage- ment (DAM) system, Mumenthaler knew ETH needed something more powerful to keep pace with increasing demand from other departments. “Each department needed their own taxonomies and metadata. Plus, they wanted control over who saw their images, for digital rights management reasons.” Product Edition: Cumulus Enterprise Plug-ins and Add-ons Used: Internet Client Pro (via customized user interface) Assets Managed by Cumulus: Images: 300,000+ (> 3 TB of files) Catalogs: 18 Cumulus In Action at ETH: http://www.ethbib.ethz.ch http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch Supported by Canto Partner: Interaktion (http://www.interaktion.ch) Partner Products and Services: • Training/support • Custom development Why Cumulus: • Flexible and powerful enough to serve entire university • Easily integrated into current and future university systems • Customizable through Cumulus API • LDAP integration meant no additional user management required • Cross-platform • Supports revenue collection for fee-based commerical use of assets • Evolves to meet growing demands • Strong support from Canto and Canto Partner CASE STUDY: ETH Zürich Using Google as a portal to Canto Cumulus, promoting and publishing images to the world. (Left) Guests and registered users have access levels defined for them, which helps ensure asset security. (Right) Taking advan- tage of the powerful and unique Cumulus categories feature, it’s easy for anyone to browse and find assets.
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The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), a world-class university, originally sought out a DAM solution to securely publish information online. But just one year after implementing Cumulus to house their library archive, web traffic has increased by almost 2,000%. The Google/Cumulus integration has proven a wild success.
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Product Edition:Cumulus Enterprise
Plug-ins and Add-ons Used:Internet Client Pro (via customized user interface)
Assets Managed by Cumulus:Images: 300,000+ (> 3 TB of files)Catalogs: 18
Cumulus In Action at ETH:http://www.ethbib.ethz.chhttp://www.e-pics.ethz.ch
Supported by Canto Partner:Interaktion (http://www.interaktion.ch)
Partner Products and Services:• Training/support• Custom development
Why Cumulus:• Flexible and powerful enough
to serve entire university• Easily integrated into current
and future university systems• Customizable through
Cumulus API• LDAP integration meant no
additional user management required
• Cross-platform• Supports revenue collection
for fee-based commerical use of assets
• Evolves to meet growing demands
• Strong support from Canto and Canto Partner
CASE STUDY: ETH ZürichUsing Google as a portal to Canto Cumulus, promoting and publishing images to the world.
ChallengeThe Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) is one of the world’s leading universities. As ushers of many of the technological evolutions of the past century and a half, it’s no surprise ETH-Bibliothek (the university’s library) has accumulated a digital asset archive so valuable that even Google took notice.It’s also not surprising an organization like this would take such care in choosing a digital asset management (DAM) system to manage its archive—and make it easily accessible via the world’s favorite search engine.SolutionCanto Cumulus wasn’t the first system ETH-Bibliothek considered—it was the last. Cumulus offered the balance of power and control ETH-Bibliothek needed to securely publish information online and handle virtually unlimited Internet use. To simplify account management, Cumulus could integrate with the university’s LDAP system—another big plus. But best of all, Cumulus was an open system the library could integrate with the world’s premiere marketing tool—Google—to lead Internet users right to the university’s virtual front door.Results and Benefits• Easy Web access to university archives that’s controllable, secure—and profitable.• Google/Cumulus interface has increased Web traffic almost 2,000% in a year.• University-wide central portal to archives encourages use, and benefits researchers.
Archiving the archiveETH-Bibliothek started digitizing its photo archive during the late 1990s, and for good reason, explains Dr. Rudolf Mumenthaler, Head of Innovation and Marketing for ETH-Bibliothek.
“Images had become increasingly important for teaching, documentation and research. We had to make our archive accessible.”
Quickly outgrowing their first digital asset manage-ment (DAM) system, Mumenthaler knew ETH needed something more powerful to keep pace with increasing demand from other departments.
“Each department needed their own taxonomies and metadata. Plus, they wanted control over who saw their images, for digital rights management reasons.”
(Left) Guests and registered users have access levels defined for them, which helps ensure asset security. (Right) Taking advan-tage of the powerful and unique Cumulus categories feature, it’s easy for anyone to browse and find assets.
Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners.
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The DAM system searchMumenthaler carefully considered no fewer than six DAM systems before deciding on Cumulus.
“Among our main requirements were the ability to provide catalogs to each department, offer cross-platform support, and the system had to be Web accessible with no user software required.”
Cumulus easily met Mumenthaler’s initial requirements, but the benefits went even deeper.
“Cumulus offered image processing and conver-sion options that other systems didn’t. It’s very useful, for example, that lecturers can find images and download them as PowerPoint slides.”
But it was distribution control that topped the requirements lists of the university departments.
“Success of the project depended on access and distribution control, and Cumulus had the best solution for this.”
Mumenthaler admits it was difficult for some departments to see the benefits of DAM at first, but that changed once Cumulus was launched.
“Our initial plan was that 10 catalogs would justify the system. Today we have 18.”
Making it personalThe flexible Cumulus API enabled ETH to cus-tomize the program to suit its needs.
“We built our own Web access software so we could offer our own user interface.”
Cumulus interfaces were also built for the univer-sity’s LDAP system, storage area network (SAN), Web CMS Silva, and the library’s “Knowledge Portal,” which will soon provide a Google inter-face to library images.
Canto partner, Interaktion, made the integrations even easier for ETH, says Mumenthaler.
“We have good experiences with Interaktion—they know Cumulus very well.”
Canto also offered ETH some help, when needed.
“We needed to mirror metadata to an SQL sys-tem. Cumulus didn’t support this at the time, but Canto made that happen by the next release.”
Google meets CumulusIn cooperation with Google, ETH built a Google/Cumulus interface to further the system’s reach. Google image search provides links directly into Cumulus where users can learn more about an ETH image, preview it with zoom and pan, and download it too. The integration bolstered ETH’s Cumulus Web traffic by a staggering 2,000% in 12 months.
Plans for tomorrowAdditional departments will get their own cata-logs, and to boost revenues from commerical asset use, a PayPal link is planned.
For Dr. Mumenthaler and ETH, Cumulus was money well spent.
“Without Cumulus, I don’t know how all these services could be offered. There might be an alternate solution, but I can’t think of one.”
Starting with a standard Google image search, the user is taken first to an intermediary metadata page, then to a live page served by the ETH Cumulus system from which the asset can be previewed and downloaded.
Canto, the Canto logo and Cumulus are registered trademarks of Canto. Other company and product names might be trademarks of their respective owners.
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About Canto & CumulusCanto has been dedicated to helping customers fully utilize their digital assets since 1990. Canto Cumulus is a cross-platform solution that enables companies to easily organize, find, share and track their ever-increasing numbers of digital files, in any format. Canto’s worldwide network of certified developers offers an impressive assortment of plug-ins that enhance the Cumulus product line further.
Learn more: www.canto.com
About InteraktionInteraktion GmbH is one of the top agencies for digital integration within Switzerland. Their services include professional consulting for DAM project planning, implementation, deployment of DAM solutions, as well as individual customization, training and support. With more than 10 years experience, and many sat-isfied customers, Interaktion is dedicated to ongoing success.
Learn more: www.interaktion.ch
