[OPLINTECH] Local History Content Software

[Wale, Jeff]

Hi Marcy,
We were in the same dilemma as you last year. We looked at ContentDM (OCLC's product) and ContentPro (Innovative Interfaces product) and decided they were both too expensive. We decided to develop a home grown product using Dublin Core and a user interface d/b (programmed in ASP.NET)  to permit our staff to catalog digital images and create a collection level record that is searchable in our public catalog.  Tom Gray designed a user interface (template input screen with thesaurus and drop down windows) and a review/approval process (for our cataloger).
The product should be done in September. I'm willing to share the code but you will need ASP.NET knowledge to modify the template.
Jeff Wale, I.T. Manager
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
325 Michigan Street
Toledo, Ohio 43604

(419) 259-5261 (office)
jeff.wale at toledolibrary.org


From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On Behalf Of Bob Neeper
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:27 PM
To: Marcy Kaiser
Cc: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Local History Content Software

You could always roll your own, which gives you a lot of control.
Our Director and Coordinator of Information Services (AKA Chauncey & Margaret) reviewed various s/w and decided to do it themselves.
BTW, neither are professional s/w programmers.

Everything resides on our own web server.

http://www.bigwalnutmemory.org/     Work in progress (Audio and video still in the works).
While not actually for the local historical society, it is similar in function.

Search examples: Sunbury, Horn, Cherry, Cherry St, Cherry Street

Click:
  "Collections" for Townships, Villages, Yearbooks, etc.

 "Photo Journal" for area images using WordPress Blog

  "Learning Activities" for study help.

  "Obituaries" to search an index of the Sunbury News
   Ex: Horn returns:
   Pub. Date          First    Last    Middle    Age    City    State
   07/14/1910    Bessie    Horn    Mae    27    London    OH

Our former director does the pages for the local historical society.
She uses a local website host and uploads pages to them.
http://www.bigwalnuthistory.org/



R. W. (Bob) Neeper

Community Library

44 Burrer Dr.

Sunbury, Oh 43074

Tel:  (740)-965-3901

On 7/29/2010 12:27 PM, Marcy Kaiser wrote:
Our library is working with our local Historical Society and planning on hosting some audio, video & picture files for them on our servers.  I was wondering, if any of you have done this and know of a good software program that will allow searching and will work for this content.  I have heard of ContentDM by OCLC, and looked at examples.  It looks good, but seems very pricey.  Thanks for all your ideas.


Marcy Kaiser
Technology & Systems Librarian
Columbiana Public Library
332 N. Middle St.
Columbiana, Ohio 44408
330-482-5509
kaiserma at oplin.org<mailto:kaiserma at oplin.org>






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