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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
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CONGRUOUS

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What Will I Cover?
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?
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What 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
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A guided tour
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An aesthetically pleasing collection experience
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Geospatial access to collection content
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Global access to uniquely-held resources
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Creation of a comprehensive database
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Restricted access to teaching collections
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Cross-campus collaborations
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How 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 More
• Collections (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

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Challenges Weve Faced And Overcome
1) 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,
new versions, 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

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Herding All The Cats
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Challenges Weve Faced And Overcome
2) Convincing Administrators To Stick With
CONTENTdm 3) Being Early Adopters of New
Versions and New Extensions 4) Lots and Lots of
Technical Hurdles
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Coping Mechanisms
Collection-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
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Collection-Specific Customizations

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Collection-Specific Customizations
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JPEG2000 vs. Links to Alternative File Formats

From Drawer to Digital A Statewide Collaboration
for Building Digital Historical Maps Collections
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Advanced Search Checkboxes Restricted to Current
Collection

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Collection Within A Collection

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ca. Dates

Entering date ranges ONLY works in the Acq
Station.. You must also edit 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
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VRA Template Implementation for Art and
Architecture Collections
Ed Teagues Crosswalk Our Starting Point

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VRA Template Implementation for Art and
Architecture Collections
Our Data Dictionary, Modeled After Eds Crosswalk

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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

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THANK YOU!
Contact infoGlee WillisDigital Projects
LibrarianUniversity of Nevada,
Renowillis_at_unr.eduOur digital projects are
athttp//contentdm.library.unr.edu