How to Create Digital Collections Using CONTENTdm

Placing on the Web the rich and unique resources of our libraries, archives, museums and historical societies is an exciting and often groundbreaking endeavor, but the process may seem overwhelming and even chaotic. CONTENTdm helps transform digital chaos into managed order. CONTENTdm is a digital collections management application that ingests, describes, indexes and stores pre-digitized files of all types and places them in searchable, self-contained collections for all to see on the World Wide Web. Class participants will work with the latest version of this user-friendly digital collections management application. Hands-on exercises.

After taking this class you will be able to:

• Place a searchable collection of digital objects on the World Wide Web.
• Use the CONTENTdm Acquisition Station software to import and describe digital items.
• Adapt the Dublin Core metadata scheme to meet your institution's specifications.
• Set up a template of persistent metadata.
• Create a two-sided view of a postcard.
• Build a searchable full-text document.
• Build a book.
• Restrict end-user access to items in a collection.
• Revise/edit an online collection.
• Better manage your institution's digitized content.
• Enhance the visibility of your institution by being digitally available 24/7.

Instructor:

• Joyce Rambo

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