Digital Collections: Materials from CONTENTdm Southern Users Group Meeting, May 2014 Now Available Online

The 2014 CONTENTdm Southern Users Group Meeting meeting took place on May 20-21, 2014 at the University of South Carolina and featured a keynote presentation by Jon Voss.
Materials (presentations, videos, and posters) from the meeting are now online via the U. of South Carolina Scholar Commons.
Here’s what you’ll find:

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

• CONTENTdm Usage Reporting with Google Analytics, Christian Sarason, OCLC and Personalizing Google Analytics, Josh Wilson, North Carolina State Library

• Overview of CONTENTdm and the Digital Collection Gateway, Geri Ingram, OCLC

• Transforming CONTENTdm Metadata to Linked Data, Cory Lampert and Silvia Southwick, University of Nevada Las Vegas

• Can One Story Change the World? Jon Voss, We Are What We Do

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

• Using Perl Modules to Interact with the CONTENTdm API, Andrew Bullen, Illinois State University

• Using “Batches” to Create Workflows in CONTENTdm for Shared Projects within the Library, Jill Ellern and Paromita Biswas, Western Carolina University

• Automating the Audit: Updates from the Metadata Upgrade Project at the University of Houston Libraries, Andrew Weidner, Annie Wu, and Santi Thompson, University of Houston

• Best Practices for Scrapbook Collections in CONTENTdm: Lessons from the University Archives Scrapbook Collection at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Anna Craft, David Gwynn, and Kathelene McCarty Smith, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

• Kick it up a Notch: Advanced Upload Techniques, Features, and Tips-&-Tricks, Mark Anderson, University of Iowa

• The Use and Future of Splash Pages for CONTENTdm Databases, Jill Ellern and Joel Marchesoni, Western Carolina University

• Using XSLT and PHP to Streamline Populating ProQuest ETD Metadata into CONTENTdm, Yan Wang, University of Alabama and Birmingham

• All Together Now: Collaboration in CONTENTdm Projects Jessica Short, Tennessee State Library and ArchivesAshley Knox, and John Quirk, University of South Carolina

• Going Hosted: The Good, the Bad, and the Minions and Supporting Your Choice-Hosted or Local: Some Infrastructure Considerations, Jim Cunningham, Illinois State University Glenn Bunton, University of South Carolina and Christian Sarason, OCLC

Poster Sessions:

• From Postcards to Practicum, Anne Price and Kathy Harden, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

• Digitizing Joseph M. Bruccoli’s Great War Collection, Brianna Hughes, University of South Carolina

• Digitizing Historical Newspapers, Virginia Pierce and Laura Blair, University of South Carolina

• Access to Spatial Datasets Using CONTENTdm, Rhys Stevens, Bryson Duda, and Maxine Tedesco, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

• William Gilmore Simms Initiative, Website and Scrapbook Viewer, Jessica Hemphill, University of South Carolina

Direct to All Meeting Materials (via U. of South Carolina Scholar Commons)

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