11/19/09 OCLC Webinar, "CONTENTdm 5.2 Overview" Highlights [Recording of this webinar will be available on the User Support Center]

•  Project Client Changes:

  •  Automatically checks for software updates; you can download to your computer and run.  It will remind you when you open PC.  Must have admin. privileges on your machine.  In lower right-hand corner of PC will tell you if you need to update or if you are up-to-date.

  • Allows you to specify PDF print quality (if you put up option to print a PDF copy for compound objects).  Maximum will be as good as original source image.  Do this In PC>Project Setting Manager>Processing

  • **In Metadata template, can choose file extension from dropdown for a specified field (e.g. jpg)**

• Controlled Vocabulary Changes:

  • Will update thesauri & have added Canadian Thesaurus

  • Existing CV will not be automatically updated

  • **Expect thesauri to be updated once/year**

• Usage Reports Changes:

  • Can filter hits

  • Enable by renaming default file

  • Bots = standard search engines

  • Reports>Server Statistics>Usage Reports>View Log Files

• Optional Data Filtering

  • For large full-text collections w/dirty OCR

  • Eliminates characters/strings that are not words

  • Increases index speed

  • Reduces amount of RAM for indexing

• Terms List

  • Punctuation is now indexed (e.g. &)

• 5.3 in development, will be available in early 2010

• Web Template Redesign webinar in Feb. 2010