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CONTENTdm ‘Quick Start’
at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Dan LipcanThe Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
January 17, 2010
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Talking about…
• Landscape & background• Why CONTENTdm• Strategy & plans• Outcomes• Expectations
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The landscape
• Ubiquity and growth of digital resources
• Recognized need within the library
• Some content management systems in the Museum, but...
• No place for text-oriented, digital research materials
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Object database
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Image database
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Internal Department site
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Administrative documents
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Modest beginnings
• Single-volume digitization• Outsourced projects• Born-digital resources• Collaborative ventures• Linked to/from the library
catalog
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Kummel Report
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Kummel Report
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Auction catalogs
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Auction catalog pricelists
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Macbeth Gallery catalogs
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Macbeth Gallery
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Custom Google search
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Why CONTENTdm?
• Research & testing• Other libraries• Staff reorganizations• FirstSearch Base package
subscription
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Our CONTENTdm setup
• 3,000 items/10 GB storage capacity
• Hosted by OCLC• + 1 OCR Extension license
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Our Strategy & Plans
• Use ‘Quick Start’ as a live prototype/proof-of-concept
• Justify a larger-scale digitization program
• Graduate to a Museum-wide initiative
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Collections for CONTENTdm
• Collaborative projects• Finding Aids• Images• Manuscripts• Text documents
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Text documents
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Images
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Images: Fine bindings
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Images: Fine bindings
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Manuscripts
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Finding Aids
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Collaborative projects
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WorldCat sync/OAI Harvest
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Challenges
• Network connections• Learning curve• Choices! Flexibility!• Integrating CONTENTdm with
other resources
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Lessons
• Prepare to do and re-do• Initially, display is of secondary
consideration– Default display is good enough to
start with
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Errors happen
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Errors happen
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Outcomes (so far)
• A solid start• Batch import/upload works well• OCR processing excellent• Excited about the full-text search
potential
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Expectations
• Make the possibilities repay our efforts
• Content will be more accessible than ever before
• Advance digitization as a preservation measure
• The software, our presentation and our skills will get better over time
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Dan LipcanThe Metropolitan Museum of Art Librarieshttp://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org