1. Bulk uploading CONTENTdm images & metadata into Flickr Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group 4th Annual Meeting March 18-20, 2009 Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Elías Tzoc Digital Initiatives Librarian

2. ::: overview ::: 1. Background 2. Flickr API & Uploading Process 3.CONTENTdm metadata 4. Customizing the Flickr interface 5. Results 6. Sample Upload 7. Questions

3. ::: background ::: “Our goal is to preserve and provide easy access to the Miami University Libraries' unique and special collections to support student and faculty research both at Miami University and elsewhere”

4. ::: background ::: Why? findability

5. ::: background :::

6. Benefits of Flickr 1. Findability 2. Personal Interaction with Users 3. Contributing to global store of knowledge 4. Dynamic interactivity

7. ::: background ::: CONTENTdm Extending and complimenting our via

8. ::: background ::: Manually upload thousands of images Manually add metadata for each image

9. ::: background ::: share share-alike

10. ::: FLICKR API::: What You Need to Know and Basic Setup 1.API = Application Programming Interface (What?) 2.Obtain API Key (http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.api_keys.html)

11. ::: FLICKR API::: WWW Server with PHP Download and Extract flickr_uploader.tar PHP upload and authorization scripts PHP libraries contentdm directory files.xml PHP upload and authorization scripts PHP libraries contentdm directory files.xml contentdm/

12. ::: FLICKR API::: upload.phpauth.php Insert API Key and Secret into line 11 Insert API Key and Secret into lines 9 & 10 files.xml Create XML file of contentdm metadata saved as files.xml upload.php ✔

13. ::: CONTENTdm metadata ::: flickr XML format image title subject (TGM), and RUL subject (TGM) filename

14. ::: CONTENTdm metadata ::: tab-delimited and custom xml files No admin. fields complete filefilesize generate XML (flickr format) support for harvesting web-interface desc.all OAI Exporting metadata PROsCONs

15. ::: CONTENTdm metadata ::: Spectators at Miami-Ohio Wesleyan football game 1921 Football; Sports spectators; Sports; Universities and colleges; URL: http://digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/snyder,0 Football; Sports spectators; Sports; Universities and colleges; 6994751412005_20634.jpg

16. ::: flickr interface ::: 1.Create sets & collections 2.Edit batches at once: add tags to all images 3.Dynamic and embeddable slideshows 4.Each image has comments and notes enabled 5.Users can fave an item, blog an item, download different sizes of the image and order prints. 6.All tags are hyperlinked; increases the dynamic nature of collection.

17. ::: results :::  + 300 views / day (average)  Referrers  global views/comments/favorites DecemberJanuary February

18. resources http://beta.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/flickr_test/flickr_uploader.tar http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/~tzocea/files/flickr/

19. questions?