[Web4lib] Introducing dmMonocle: A Better Image Viewer for CONTENTdm

[Brian Egan]

Do you run CONTENTdm and want to make browsing detailed images in your  
digital collections as easy as using Google Maps? Want to make the  
most of your high resolution scans? Wish you could provide a better  
viewing experience for your users? Now you can!

dmMonocle is a stand-alone, open-source image viewer for CONTENTdm  
collections, intended as a replacement for the default image viewer  
provided with CONTENTdm. The goal of the project is to make CONTENTdm  
images, such as photos, maps, and scanned documents, easier to view  
and navigate.

Interested?

Check out a screencast demonstrating dmMonocle’s Features or the UNLV  
Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years collection to see how it works.
Want to install it? Easy! Watch a screencast on how to install  
dmMonocle on your CONTENTdm collections in 10 minutes
Download dmMonocle at http://dmmonocle.googlecode.com/

Questions, comments, feature requests, or bugs? Please feel free to  
email me at brian.egan at unlv.edu or chat with me over Gmail Talk: brianrossegan at gmail.com 
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Thanks, and happy image viewing!
Brian Egan

Web/Multimedia Designer
UNLV Libraries - Library Technologies
Phone: 702.895.2252
Email: brian.egan at unlv.edu