OCLC Online Computer Library Center CONTENTdm User Meeting Claire Cocco Product Manager CONTENTdm December 18, 2006

OCLC Online Computer Library Center CONTENTdm 4.2 Available December 2006

OCLC Online Computer Library Center User Meeting Agenda CONTENTdm 4.2  Acquisition Station  OCR  Server & Collection Delivery  Upgrading and Migration Questions

OCLC Online Computer Library Center CONTENTdm 4.2 New Release  New Features  User Interface Changes  Fixes

OCLC Online Computer Library Center CONTENTdm 4.2 Available December 2006  Primary contacts notified by  Hosted users ed to schedule upgrade  Listserv announcement  Web announcement  Free download from USC for all users with current AMA  CDs available upon request

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Acquisition Station New Features  Multiple Compound Object Wizard  Add list persistence  Error recovery  OCR Upgrade  ABBYY FineReader 8  Language support  Fast Mode  Large image warnings  OCR existing items

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Acquisition Station Multiple Compound Object Wizard  Compound objects queued in the Add List are persistent  Remain in Add List until the compound object is built successfully or is deleted from the list  Close the Wizard without losing items waiting for upload  More flexibility in preparing and processing multiple compound objects

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Acquisition Station Multiple Compound Object Wizard  Robust error recovery  Complete build even if an error interrupts the process  Improved error messages  Pages processed are not lost  Includes OCR scans counted for monthly allotment

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Acquisition Station Multiple Compound Object Wizard

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Acquisition Station OCR Upgrade  Upgrade to ABBYY FineReader 8  Support for TIF LZW and JPEG2000 images  OCR Settings (defined per project)  Recognition Language  Fast Mode  OCR existing items  Large image warnings  No post processing of OCR  Punctuation and capitalization retained

OCLC Online Computer Library Center OCR Upgrade Recognition Languages  Support for 36 languages and dialects  Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, German New Spelling, German Luxembourg, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Mohawk, Norwegian, Portuguese Brazilian, Portuguese Portugal, Quechua, Sami, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Welsh, Zulu  Select multiple languages

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Acquisition Station OCR Upgrade – Recognition Languages

OCLC Online Computer Library Center OCR Upgrade Fast Mode  Increases processing speed  Less accurate  ABBYY states that fast mode can increase the processing speed between 2 and 2.5 times the speed of regular OCR with a 1 to 1.5 times increase in the error rate  Use only for high quality, clean documents with simple layout

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Acquisition Station OCR Upgrade – Fast Mode

OCLC Online Computer Library Center OCR Upgrade OCR Existing Items  Add OCR text to items already in collections  Choose metadata field for OCR text  Pre-existing metadata is overwritten  Perform OCR on display images or full resolution images, if available  Items must have file name in full resolution field  Full resolution images must be accessible

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Acquisition Station OCR Existing Items

OCLC Online Computer Library Center OCR Upgrade Large image warnings  Images larger than the A4 standard count as multiple pages against monthly allotment  Warning displays if images exceed size A4  Cancel OCR if do not wish to proceed  Suppress warning message for future

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Acquisition Station OCR Upgrade – Large Image Warning

OCLC Online Computer Library Center OCR Upgrade ABBYY FineReader 8  License Codes  Installation of CONTENTdm 4.2 Acquisition Station removes ABBYY FineReader 7  All Version 7 codes replaced with Version 8 codes  Version 8 license codes will be sent to primary contacts

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery New Features  Enhanced compound object viewer  Date searching and browsing  Collection configuration options  Automatic hyperlinks  Zoom & pan functionality  Imageconf.txt  New collection customization options  Support for multiple localized versions  And more…

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Compound Object Viewer  Hide/Show menu  Provides larger area for viewing images  Navigational thumbnail location  Thumbnail visible without reducing viewing area  Retain zoom settings  Zoom settings are retained when navigating within compound object  Static zoom and pan toolbar  Toolbar is always visible  Article highlighting

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Compound Object Viewer

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Compound Object Viewer

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Compound Object Viewer

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Compound Object Viewer  Highlight and view individual articles for newspapers that have been processed to have article segmentation data  CONTENTdm Importer  Used by third party reformatting vendors to convert newspapers into CONTENTdm collections  Supports NDNP required METS/ALTO format

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Article highlighting

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Compound Object Viewer Article Highlighting  Customize article highlighting in global style file  STY_global_style.php  Edit variables to change display  Highlight color  Highlight opacity  Border color

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Search by Date  Search by date option added to Advanced Search  Available if one or more collections have searchable date data type field  Date data type field must be mapped to Dublin Core date field

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Search by Date  Search after, before, or on specified date  Search date range – from, to  Year is required for search  Month, day optional  Search for additional terms in selected field

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Search by Date

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Browse by Date  Browse by Date pages  Single collection (browse_dates_single.php)  Multiple collections (browse_dates.php)  Included in default Web Templates but NOT integrated in default Web site  Require customization to implement  One or more collections must have searchable date data type field  Date data type field must be mapped to Dublin Core date field

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Browse by Date – Multiple Collections

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Browse by Date – Single Collection

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Collection Configuration Automatic Hyperlinks in Metadata  Customize automatic hyperlinks in searchable metadata fields  STY_global_style.php  Edit variables to change search parameters  Search all collections or current collection  Search all fields or current field  Default searches all fields in current collection

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Collection Configuration Zoom and Pan Functionality  Display or suppress zoom and pan functionality by image file type  STY_global_style.php  Edit variable to change file types  Listed file types display with zoom and pan  Remove file type from list to suppress zoom and pan  Default displays zoom and pan for jpg, gif, tif, tiff, jp2

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Collection Configuration Word Highlighting  Configure word highlighting  Imageconf.txt  Edit variables to change display  Highlight color  Highlight opacity  Highlight scale  Minimum size ** Word highlighting now supported in item viewer **

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Collection Configuration Word Highlighting

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Collection Configuration Document Viewer Settings  Configure menu off view  Imageconf.txt  Edit variables to change display  Default width  Default height  Default scale

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Collection Customization  Two options for customizing templates for individual collections  Scripted method built in  Duplicate and rename /cdm4 directory  Portable /cdm4 directory  Duplicate to test customizations, implement custom collection interfaces, or upgrade templates ** Browse link opens current collection when either custom collection option is implemented **

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Collection Configuration Collection Customization  Configure search for customized collections  STY_global_style.php  Edit variable to change functionality  All – searches all collections, collection list displayed  None – searches current collection, collection list suppressed  Alias list – searches specified collections, collection list suppressed  Demo site and documentation available in January

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Localization  Supports multiple language versions  Web Templates  dc.txt  Configure variable to enable  STY_global_style.php  Demo site and documentation available in January  English, French, Spanish

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery Localization

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery And More… Preferences  New option to delete preferences cookie

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery And More… Advanced Search  Searching with only None of the Words operator is prevented

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery And More… Controlled Vocabulary  Updated Thesaurus for Graphical Materials 1  11,887 terms  tgm1_42.txt  Character limit increased to 128  The maximum number of characters supported in a controlled vocabulary term is increased to 128 (up from 100 in previous versions)

OCLC Online Computer Library Center Server & Collection Delivery And More… About  License code now exposed on About page

OCLC Online Computer Library Center CONTENTdm 4.2 Fixes  All previous patches and updates rolled into this release  Acquisition Station  OCR punctuation and capitalization  Server & Collection Delivery  Sorting on words beginning with diacritics  Keywords in context display  Inconsistencies in compound object searching, date display format, and CISOSUPPRESS behavior

OCLC Online Computer Library Center CONTENTdm 4.2 Upgrading and Migration – Server  Simple server upgrade from 4.0/4.0.1/4.1  If migrating from to 4.2  First migrate to Version 4.1 using 4.1 migration kit  Apply 4.2 update to version 4.1  Web Template changes documented  Can upgrade server without applying template changes  Can work on updates without interfering with live site  /cdm4_42update/  Versions 3.6 and earlier no longer supported  3.x Custom Query and Results removed

OCLC Online Computer Library Center CONTENTdm 4.2 Upgrading and Migration – Acquisition Station  4.1 Acquisition Station compatible with 4.2 Server and vice versa  Installation of 4.2 Acquisition Station requires removal of existing Acquisition Station  Use Add/Remove Programs in Windows  Existing projects will not be changed or deleted  License code required for installation  Administration About page  OCR license codes sent to primary contacts  Windows Vista not yet supported

OCLC Online Computer Library Center CONTENTdm 4.2 More Information  User Support Center  Download update kits  Upgrade and migration guides  Updated help files  Updated tutorials (January)  CONTENTdm Support 

OCLC Online Computer Library Center CONTENTdm 4.2  Questions?