Excerpts from OCLC’s presentation. Their full presentation will be posted online after the conference.
CONTENTdm 5 will use Webalyzer for reports.
CONTENTdm will be added to the FirstSearch Base Package and will include
Full-function CONTENTdm hosted by OCLC
3 Project Clients for collection building (items also may be added with the simple web add form or Connexion digital import)
3,000 item limit and 10 GB storage
Available May 1, 2009
Digital Collection Gateway
Improve access and presence for digital collections
Synchronize non-MARC metadata with WorldCat
CONTENTdm 5
1. Unicode
Full support of Unicode for importing, storing, displaying and searching Unicode languages
OCR support expanded – 184 languages
Supports the creation of ditial collections in any language
2. Find Search Engine (used for WorldCat)
Find search engine integrated into CONTENTdm software
More robust capability and the ability to offer additional search features
Relevancy
Faceted searching
Spelling suggestions
Unicode searching
Search in any language
3. Controlled Vocabularies
Adds efficiency to colleciton building by providing pre-loaded thesaurifor cataloging
Integration with OCLC Terminologies Service
Providing nine new thesauri for CONTENTdm users
4. Reports
More robust, scalable reporting module integrated into software
Provides expanded reports
Views by collection and item
5. Flexible workflows
Added more options for approving and indexing items
New batch and subset handling of pending items
One-click approve and index on demand
Scheduling options for approve and index
Background processing
6. Registration
New registration process added during installation
One-click sends server information to OCLC
Registered servers called once a month to gather data on usage
7. Project Client
New client application replaces old version
New programming language
New, more intuitive interface
Unicode support
More robust
Project Settings Manager – Metadata Templates
Different templates for different file types
Images, JPEG, JPEG2000, TIF
PDF, compound objects, URL, audio, video
Options for generating data from different file types
Images – Colorspace, Bits per sample
PDF – Extracts content from embedded fields (application, author, date modified, date created, etc.)
8. File Transfer
Replaced FTP with custom HTTP transfer protocol
Uploading items occurs in the background
Continue working while items are uploaded
Pause process and resume later
9. EAD
New import process and display options
Custom metadata mapping
Full text searching
Search term highlighting within EAD
Multiple display veiws
XML web service
Users control metadata mapping and display
10. Capacity
Increased capacity throughout application
Supports more collections, items for batch processing, and metadata fields.
Expand metadata schemas to incorporate preservation metadata or more custom fields
Faster batch processing and conversion from existing databases
