Digital Asset Management System (CONTENTdm)

About CONTENTdm

CONTENTdm is the digital asset management software the Hamilton College Digital Collections runs on.

• CONTENTdm Web Site (OCLC) <http://www.contentdm.org/> (accessed October 3, 2013)
• Overview <http://www.oclc.org/contentdm/overview.en.html> (accessed October 3, 2013)

Vendor Support for CONTENTdm

• Tutorials on CONTENTdm (requires login) <http://www.contentdm.org/USC/kbase/tutorials/index.php?> (accessed October 3, 2013)
• CONTENTdm Tips & Tricks (requires login) <http://www.contentdm.org/USC/blog/blogs/blog2.php> (accessed October 3, 2013)
• User Support Center (login required ) <http://www.contentdm.org/USC/index.php> (accessed October 3, 2013)

User Community Support for CONTENTdm

• CONTENTdm-L (listserv) (login required ) <http://listserv.oclc.org/scripts/wa.exe?A0=CONTENTDM-L&X=&Y=> (accessed October 3, 2013)
• Extensions CONTENTdm Extensions (PowerPoint ), by Terry Reese (Oregon State)
• <http://people.oregonstate.edu/%7Ereeset/contentdm/presentation/2004_05_09.ppt> (accessed October 3, 2013)
• OSU's CONTENTdm Development Projects/Resource page <http://people.oregonstate.edu/%7Ereeset/contentdm/> (accessed October 3, 2013)

Project Pages of Other Users of CONTENTdm (with public documentation)

• Claremont Colleges Digital Library (Claremont Colleges) <http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/> (accessed October 3, 2013)
• University of Nevada, Reno <http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/digitalprojects/> (accessed October 3, 2013)
• University of Oregon Libraries <http://oregondigital.org/digcol/index.php> (accessed October 3, 2013)
• Yakima Memory Project (Yakima Valley, California) <http://yakimamemory.org/cdm4/project.php> (accessed October 3, 2013)

Document Storage, Indexing, and Full-text Searching

• eXist (Free Open Source, native XML database) - Used to store and index the TEI/XML files.
• PHP (free) - Used to send XQuery requests to the eXist XML database and transform the results to XHTML with the help of XSLT and CSS.