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Carpe CONTENTdm !. Congruous Coaxing and Customization. Glee Willis Digital Projects Librarian University of Nevada, Reno. CONTENTdm Success Stories for Total Digital Collection Management June 24, 2006 ALA New Orleans. CONGRUOUS. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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  • Carpe CONTENTdm!

    Congruous Coaxing and CustomizationGlee WillisDigital Projects LibrarianUniversity of Nevada, Reno

    CONTENTdm Success Stories for Total Digital Collection Management June 24, 2006 ALA New Orleans

  • CONGRUOUS

    conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation

  • What Are We Trying to Accomplish with CONTENTdm?

    How Do We Decide on Our Collections? For Whom Are We Building Them?

    Challenges Weve Faced And Overcome

    Coping Mechanisms

    Whats On The Horizon?

    What Will I Cover?

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situationWhat Are We Trying To Accomplish?a. Provide Guided Tours of Our Digital Collections

    b. Build Aesthetically Pleasing Collection Experiences

    c. Provide Geospatial Access Not Previously Provided

    d. Provide Global Access to Uniquely-Held Resources

    e. Provide Restricted Access to Teaching Collections

    f. Build Comprehensive Databases for Entire Image Collections (Anywhere on Campus)

    g. Foster Cross-Campus Collaborations (Campus Photos Collection)

    h. ALL OF THE ABOVE

  • A guided tour

  • An aesthetically pleasing collection experience

  • Geospatial access to collection content

  • Global access to uniquely-held resources

  • Creation of a comprehensive database

  • Restricted access to teaching collections

  • Cross-campus collaborations

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situationHow Do We Decide on Our Collections? For Whom Are We Building Them?a. Started with the Obvious Lake Tahoe

    Got Practice Under Our Belts With A Few MoreCollections (Barns, Lincoln Highway, Historic Maps)

    Other Areas Outside of Special Collections Began to Understand What They Could Do With CONTENTdm(Basque Posters, La Baskonia, Nevada Ag Pubs)

    d.Now We Feel Confident Enough To Build Comprehensive Collections (Entire Photo Collections)

    Audiences: The General Public Scholars and Researchers Users of Teaching Collections Campus Community PR Office

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situationChallenges Weve Faced And Overcome1) Getting So Much Done With So Few People

    Content providers are responsible for arranging for scanning of resources Content providers are responsible for creating metadata for the resources

    Digital Projects Librarian runs around behind the curtains, making sure everything is working properly -- no matter how many server crashes, newversions, new code languages, new procedures for customizing, new nifty add-ons, and new collections come her way

    SysAdmin keeps server running, backed up, and updated with new versions

    Web Librarian works with content providers to create beautiful portals

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situationHerding All The Cats

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situationChallenges Weve Faced And Overcome2) Convincing Administrators To Stick With CONTENTdm

    3) Being Early Adopters of New Versions and New Extensions

    4) Lots and Lots of Technical Hurdles

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation Coping MechanismsCollection-Specific Customizations

    JPEG2000 vs. Links to Alternative File Formats

    Advanced Search Checkboxes Restricted to Current Collection

    Collection Within A Collection

    ca. dates

    VRA Template Implementations

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation Collection-Specific Customizations

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation Collection-Specific Customizations

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  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation Collection-Specific Customizations

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation JPEG2000 vs. Links to Alternative File Formats

    From Drawer to Digital: A Statewide Collaboration for Building Digital Historical Maps Collections

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situationAdvanced Search Checkboxes Restricted to Current Collection

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation Collection Within A Collection

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation ca. Dates

    Entering date ranges ONLY works in the Acq Station.. You must alsoedit ANY record that includes a date range ONLY in the Acq Station.When you enter a date range into a date data type field in the Acq Station,it will automatically convert the range into the equivalent individual dates.Entering this:Becomes this:(remainder of box content not displayed)

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation VRA Template Implementation for Art and Architecture Collections

    Ed Teagues Crosswalk Our Starting Point

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation VRA Template Implementation for Art and Architecture Collections

    Our Data Dictionary, Modeled After Eds Crosswalk

  • conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation Whats On The Horizon?TOC

    Spell

    E-Commerce

    Trilingual Interface

    More Research Guides

    More Geospatial Searches More Document Collections

    Extraction of Metadata from TIFF Headers

    Web 2.0

  • THANK YOU!Contact info: Glee Willis Digital Projects Librarian University of Nevada, Reno [email protected] Our digital projects are at: http://contentdm.library.unr.edu