Using CONTENTdm

CONTENTdm is computer software that organizes digital collections and allows you to publish them on the Internet. Read more about CONTENTdm. The Customer Collections page is a lot of fun.

As a contributor to WHO, you will use a piece of CONTENTdm, a downloadable client program called the Acquisition Station to:

*upload your scanned images into a database

*add metadata to your images

New CONTENTdm license purchasers might like to investigate CONTENTdm Implementation Services . This service will cost additional money, but the step-by-step process may be worth it for your organization. Call WiLS for more information.

To get started, review CONTENTdm's Quick Start Guide

Other CONTENTdm features

• Full Resolution Manager Tips
• CONTENTdm and Historical Societies
• CONTENTd Quick Technical Facts
• CONTENTdm Hosting Services
• CONTENTdm Introduction to the OCR Extension

Wisconsin-created Support Documents 

• Setting Collection Field Properties.doc 
• WHOFieldProperties.doc

   

  • This is a document with a set of field properties laid out using the WHO metadata guidelines. The first eight fields are the Mandatory fields, followed by the Required if Available fields, followed by the Optional fields.

Easy-edit controlled vocabulary lists

Controlled Vocabulary Text Files (following WHO Metadata Guidelines)

Download these text files to add to your CONTENTdm project controlled vocabulary. These are NOT definitive lists of terms. It would be great if, when you add Wisconsin or typically used terms to any of these lists, you would upload the revised list to this site.

• CDMDateRange.txt

• DCMIType.txt

• DCMIformat.txt

• WIcitiestowns.txt

• formatmedium.txt

• wisconsincounties.txt

Controlled Vocabulary Text Files (local practice or non-standard)

Add controlled vocabulary files here that are not following WHO Metadata Guideslines. There are many in use pre-WHO. Over time, we can transform these lists to follow WHO guidelines, or substitute one of the files from the set that follows the WHO Metadata Guidelines.

Wisconsin CONTENTdm email list

You can sign up for the list and find out more about it at:

    http://titan.wils.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/wicontentdm

There is an email-based interface for users of the list; you can get info about using it by sending a message with just the word `help' as subject or in the body, to:   

wicontentdm-request@titan.wils.wisc.edu

Send messages for the list participants to wicontentdm@titan.wils.wisc.edu

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