Our public library has a local history archive, and they are using a
Content DM instance to implement their digital collection. They are
happy with it. Currently they're running on a WAMP setup. Though I'd
like that to change to Linux, Windows seems to work as a development
environment, and from lurking on the Content DM listserv for a few
weeks, it seems that it works cross-platform, though some of the Un*x
neophytes seemed to have difficulties configuring the LAMP stack.
- David
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David Cloutman <[log in to unmask]>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Edward Iglesias
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:41 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Collections management software
Hello Harish,
I second Tim's enthusiastic endorsement. We are very pleased with it.
Support is very good and it runs with no problem on linux. We got it to
host our veterans history project which is a collection of video
interviews
so it is quite versatile.
http://content.library.ccsu.edu/
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Edward Iglesias
Systems Librarian
Central Connecticut State University
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Tim McGeary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Harish,
>
> We use CONTENTdm to manage many of our Digital Library collections.
You
> can see them at http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/
>
> The collections we have using CONTENTdm are mostly digitized
> books/monographs, but we also have illuminated manuscripts, hand
written
> letters, and other ephemeral. We are nearly complete in archiving the
> entire student newspaper collection, which we hope to release late
fall.
>
> We used Greenstone, which is open source, for our first digital
project
> called Digital Bridges. But we just re-released the project by
converting
> it to CONTENTdm. Greenstone required much too much customization and
no
> sustainability, as we wanted to add more to this collection.
>
> The University of Utah and the Claremont Colleges both recently
developed
> their institution digital repositories with CONTENTdm. I plan to
follow
> their lead with our IR on CONTENTdm this upcoming academic year. I
believe
> it was the presenter at Utah that said <paraphrase>Why create a
> technological hurdle trying to learn and shape Fedora or DSpace to our
needs
> when we already know CONTENTdm and have an open API that we are
comfortable
> with using.</paraphrase>
>
> Though CONTENTdm is proprietary, the cost is well worth it. The API
is
> very open, the community is among the best user communities out there,
and
> the vendor (DiMeMa via OCLC) is very receptive and responsive to user
> concerns and enhancement suggestions.
>
> It has a very intuitive metadata interface, and is easy to administer
on
> the server side. I never have to worry about it.
>
> I would HIGHLY recommend CONTENTdm. Well worth the price!
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
>
> Tim McGeary
> Senior Systems Specialist
> Lehigh University
> 610-758-4998
> [log in to unmask]
> Google Talk: timmcgeary
> Yahoo IM: timmcgeary
>
>
> Harish Maringanti wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've heard of Contentdm from OCLC that many institutions are using to
>> manage
>> their digital collections. If you are using Contentdm would you mind
>> sharing
>> some of the pros & cons of using it (either to the group or off the
list).
>>
>> Are there any other viable products either commercial or open source
that
>> can be considered to manage digital collections. Particularly in the
open
>> source domain are there any good applications to manage image
collections?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Harish
>>
>>
>> Harish Maringanti
>> Systems Analyst
>> K-State Libraries
>> (785)532-3261
>>
>>
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