OCLC Western CONTENTdm Users Group meeting

The CONTENTdm Users Group meeting has been designed for and by CONTENTdm users in order to address the unique needs of this community. All CONTENTdm users, licensees and evaluators, and other interested parties, are invited to attend.

Please join us and your colleagues at this dynamic two-day event to examine important issues involving all aspects of CONTENTdm.

Thursday, June 5, 2008
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Friday, June 6, 2008
9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

This year there will be training available as a pre-meeting activity on Wednesday, June 4. Two different workshops will be offered concurrently beginning at 9:00 a.m.

CONTENTdm Basic User Instruction, a workshop appropriate for organizations new to CONTENTdm, or for those who wish to preview the software, will include hands-on exercises and cover: creating collections, using the compound document wizard, metadata and controlled vocabulary implementation, and maintaining collections with batch replacement of objects.

This training will be led by OCLC Western staff. The fee for this training is $75.00.

For intermediate to advanced users interested in learning more about working with tab-deliminated files for batch loading, data migration, and creating compound objects, your colleagues Lisa Crane (The Claremont University Consortium) and Joanna Burgess (Reed College) will demonstrate:

• Using tab-deliminated text files to batch load vendor-licensed images or migrate images from legacy systems.
• Building a compound object structure using levels/nodes in tab-deliminated text files to import metadata for both the object wrapper and individual pages.

Time will be allotted for sharing tips, lessons learned and best practices. We want to learn from you as well!
The fee for this training is $35.00.

The Doubletree Hotel in Claremont has available a limited number of both single and double rooms available June 4th and 5th at a conference rate of $109 per night. Please refer to the group code: OCL when making reservations by phone at: 1-800-222-TREE or online at www.doubletreeclaremont.com.

Please note that this rate is available for reservations made by May 8, 2008. The hotel and many local restaurants are all within walking distance of the campus.

For more information about the Claremont University Consortium location, maps and driving instructions, please visit their website.

Airports

• Ontario International Airport (ONT)
  Located 8 miles from The Claremont University Consortium
  (909) 937-2700
• Bob Hope (Burbank) Airport (BUR)
  Located 41 miles from The Claremont University Consortium
  (818) 840-8840
• Long Beach City Airport (LGB)
  Located 41 miles from The Claremont University Consortium
  (562) 570-2600
• John Wayne (Santa Ana) Airport (SNA)
  Located 38 miles from The Claremont University Consortium
  (949) 252-5200
• Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
  Located 49 miles from The Claremont University Consortium
  (310) 646-5252

Transportation

Taxi and shuttle services

Shuttle and taxi service is available to The Claremont University Consortium and other local destinations. Cost is approximately $25 from Ontario International Airport (ONT) to The Claremont University Consortium and $50 to $60 from the other area airports to Claremont.

The shuttle and taxi services listed below offer service to and from all the listed airports. We suggest you call for reservations and to confirm fares.

• Prime Time Shuttle
  (800) 991-7433
• Super Shuttle
  (800) 258-3826
• Yellow Cab of Claremont
  (909) 621-0699

Metrolink

Metrolink is a commuter train system that operates Monday through Saturday between Union Station (the train depot) in downtown Los Angeles and San Bernardino. The Claremont Metrolink stop is one block southwest of the Pomona College campus, on First Street. For schedule and fare information, call (800) 371-LINK or see the Metrolink Web site.

Pre–Conference – Wednesday, June 4, 2008
9:00 am – 4:00 pm	CONTENTdm Basic User Instruction
9:00 am – 3:00 pm	User–to–user workshop
Day 1 – Thursday, June 5, 2008
8:30 – 9:00 am	Registration & Continental breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 am	Welcome & Introductions Meeting agenda & Arrangements
9:15 – 10:45 am	Session 1 – Digital Projects from A–Z Lisa Crane, The Claremont University Consortium—Lindley Scrapbook Collection, from start to finish Laura Robinson, Washington State Library & speakers from statewide public libraries—Washington Rural Heritage: a collaborative digitization project Larry Guyer, Archetype Digital Imaging—Large Format Digitizing… Beyond the Flat Bed Scanner
10:45 – 11:15 am	Networking Break
11:15 – 12:15 pm	Session 2 – Migration & Data Wrangling Anne Graham, University of Washington—The Promise and Pitfalls of Merging Collections Robin Leech, Oklahoma State University—Migrating an IR: batch loading for newbies
12:30 – 1:30 pm	Lunch on site
1:30 – 2:30 pm	Session 3 – Beyond the Box: Customizations & Interfaces, Pt 1 Alex Dolski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas—Visualizing map retrieval: searching CONTENTdm collections with ISIS, an interactive spatial image search tool Eric Luhrs, Lafayette College—Organizing distributed metadata creation with MetaDB
2:30 – 2:45 pm	Networking Break
2:45 – 3:45 pm	Session 4 – Beyond the Box: Customizations & Interfaces, Pt 2 Angela Rosette–Tavares—Usability testing for UW site redesign Michael Spalti, Willamette University—Planning for Digital Asset Management at Willamette University
3:45 – 5:00	Open Session: Discussion about knowledge base (User wiki, etc.)
5:00 – 7:00 pm	Evening networking & No–host dining
Day 2 – Friday, June 6, 2008
8:30 – 9:00 am	Breakfast – California Breakfast Wraps and Fruit
9:00 – 9:15 am	Arrangements for the day
9:15 – 9:45 am	CONTENTdm Product Updates: Geri Ingram, OCLC
9:45 – 10:45 am	Session 5 – Rights Management for Institutional Repositories Allyson Mower, University of Utah—University Scholarly Knowledge Inventory System (U–SKIS): Extending the Power of CONTENTdm for Institutional Repositories Pat Vince, Alain Veylit, The Claremont University Consortium—Implementing the University of Utah's Copyright Management Workflow at The Claremont University Consortium
10:45 – 11:00 am	Networking Break
11:00 – 12:00 pm	Session 6 – Collection Visibility Allegra Gonzalez—Getting the word out with metadata harvesters and registries Anne Graham, University of Washington—CONTENTdm, Wikipedia, and Flickr: What Happens When They Play Together?
12:00 – 1:30 pm	Lunch on your own
1:30 – 3:30 pm	Open Session: Developers' discussion forum

The fee to register for the OCLC Western CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting is $75.00 per person, which includes a continental breakfast and lunch on Thursday, breakfast on Friday, and all meeting handouts.

The fee for the CONTENTdm Basic User Instruction is $75 for both OCLC Western members and non-members.
The fee for the User to User workshop is $35.

Registration deadline is Wednesday, May 28, 2008.

Space is limited and it is expected to fill quickly, so register early.

Please register below for the Users Group Meeting and the Pre-Meeting Training Opportunities:

Please direct any questions you may have to Nina Vandemark, OCLC Western, at 1-800-854-5753.