[Web4lib] ContentDM VS ? Comparison

[Tim McGeary]

Hi Nancy,

We have been using CONTENTdm at Lehigh University for the past 6 years, 
and I can wholeheartedly endorse the product.  CONTENTdm is flexible 
enough to handle simple photograph collections to complicating archives 
of books, maps, newspapers, and ephemeral.

The user interface is completely customizable, but just as usable right 
out of the box.  The metadata client is straightforward to use in both 
the PC-installed client and the web client.

CONTENTdm and OCLC are very committed to the product, and the user 
community is fairly active and very helpful, with a number of regional 
users groups available.

And for searching, it was announced at ALA Midwinter that CONTENTdm 
would be implementing the WorldCat search engine in the next major 
release to make searching even better than it already is.

If you want your collections to be searchable from WorldCat or Google, 
you can also export them from CONTENTdm to OCLC or make them harvestable.

Feel free to take a look at our Digital Scholarship Center collections 
at http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/

Prior to using CONTENTdm we used Greenstone, an open source application. 
  We are in the final stages of a conversion of our collection on 
Greenstone to CONTENTdm.

Please feel free to contact us with any specific questions you may have.

Cheers,
Tim

Tim McGeary
Senior Systems Specialist
Lehigh University
610-758-4998
tim.mcgeary at lehigh.edu
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Nancy Miller wrote:
> I'm from a small college library in Wyoming.  We are considering a CMS
> to manage our archival collection of WWII Heart Mountain Relocation Camp
> images, plus other collections.  OCLC's ContentDM has been suggested as
> a potential product.  How does this compare to other products that are
> being used?  Thumbnails and larger jpegs of our images are currently
> viewable on our web site.  We need a good way to search our collections,
> thus a CMS system.  Thank you for all suggestions and words of wisdom.
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> Nancy Miller
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> Northwest College, Hinckley Library
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> Powell, WY
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> http://www.northwestcollege.edu/library/
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