CONTENTdm Core Group,
The next meeting will be this Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 11:00-12:00, in the TACC
Conference Room. Anne Morrow will facilitate, and Lisa Chaufty will take notes. Just a
reminder: To get to TACC, you now have to go around the back way on Level 2. Ask for
directions at the Knowledge Commons reference desk if you need them.
Since the last formal meeting of the CONTENTdm Core Group, there have been two
related meetings: (1) Search Engine Optimization subteam on Dec. 8, and (2) OCLC
Briefing on CONTENTdm 5.0 and follow-up discussion, Dec. 16. The SEO subteam
decided to fold back into the CONTENTdm Core Group.
Before the meeting on Wednesday, please see the agenda below and review any
action items that you agreed to take care of. Please send any requests for agenda
changes to Anne.
Thanks!
Sandra
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Agenda, CONTENTdm Core Group
January 14, 2009
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Communication
o Action items
 Explore further putting wiki on Sharepoint (Lisa and Kinza)
 Update list of users (Kelly and Jeff)
Search engine optimization
o Action items
 Pulling some metadata into <meta> tags in header in item viewer
(Nate)
 Test changing the data type to "Date" on existing collections
(Sandra and Kelly)
 Test the OAI provision by CONTENTdm server in OAI Repository
Explorer (Jeff)
 Google Sitemaps added for 5 initial collections, with links to
Sitemap Index registered in Webmaster Tools and listed in
robots.txt file (Nate and Sandra)
 Register all collections with WorldCat (Anne to check with Jan
about progress)
 Register IR collections with Google Scholar (Lisa)
o Implementing a command-line script for creating Google Site Maps for all
collections
Checking on additional registrations: Digital Library Federation portal,
OAIster, Scientific Commons, ROAR, et al.
o Checking changes in usage statistics for our collections
o Sharing what we have learned about SEO with other CONTENTdm
implementers
CONTENTdm 5.0 rollout
o Questions for OCLC re functionality of new version
o Server installation (Jeff)
o Migration Plan and rollout schedule (Jeff)
o Training for users at UU and MWDL partners:
 OCLC's online training: CONTENTdm Basic Use webinar, January
20, 1:00-3:00 p.m. MST
 Our own training and online tutorials
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