Requirements and Best Practices

CARLI Digital Collections - Collection Development Policy rev. 5/18/2007

Required Metadata Fields for Collections in CARLI Digital Collections

Prerequisites for Publishing a Collection in CARLI Digital Collections

Recommendation for Collection-Level Bibliographic Records for CARLI Digital Collections

Guidelines for the Creation of Digital Collections: Digitization Best Practices for Audio

Guidelines for the Creation of Digital Collections: Digitization Best Practices for Images and Text

Guidelines for the Creation of Digital Collections: Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata

Procedures

Getting started with CONTENTdm in the CARLI Environment

Installing the CONTENTdm Acquisition Station

Starting a New Project

Adding and Populating a Metadata Field in a Preexisting CONTENTdm Collection

CONTENTdm Customization Form [to be filled out by your institution's CONTENTdm contact person.]

Statistics

CARLI Digital Collections Statistics page

Training and Online Help

CARLI CONTENTdm Training

CARLI staff offer training sessions for CARLI libraries implementing CONTENTdm for the first time. Advanced CONTENTdm training is under development.

The example files used during the CARLI CONTENTdm training session are available for download if you wish to review the exercises covered in your training workbook. Simply Extract the files using WinZip or similar utility. The file structure used during the training will appear with the extracted files (44mb).

CONTENTdm User Support Center

Contains Tutorials and Online Help. Contact the CARLI Office for information on registering for access to the CONTENTdm User Support Center.

OCLC sometimes offers web-based overviews on using CONTENTdm and posts archived web-based training sessions using Microsoft LiveMeeting on the Training page of their USC website. Please remember that these sessions are not sponsored by CARLI. They are given by OCLC for all users of CONTENTdm, and, therefore, some of the information contained in the session does not apply to our consortial environment (such as procedures for publishing a collection, creating users and collections, and server administration). Should you have any questions on how our consortial use of CONTENTdm differs from the methods shown in the OCLC Web session, please review the CARLI-specific Information posted above.

Saskia Art Images Resources

Overview of Saskia Art Images Collection

Customizable Template for Publicizing the Saskia Art Images Collection to Your Campus Art Community

Saskia Art Images Informational Sheet

Additional Resources for Further Reading

CONTENTdm
List of Digitization Resources

Other CONTENTdm customers and how they are using CONTENTdm for their collections