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Crowdsourcing with CONTENTdm and FromThePage

May 7, 2018 By Ben Brumfield

We are pleased to announce that FromThePage now integrates with CONTENTdm, the digital collections management system created by OCLC.  Through this integration, CONTENTdm users can launch crowdsourcing projects on FromThePage without the need for uploading image files, copying metadata, or cut-and-pasting user contributions into their digital collections.

How it works

FromThePage uses CONTENTdm 5.1's new support for IIIF to import presentational metadata and references to image services.  We've added a CONTENTdm import wizard to make the process easier.  Simply find a compound object on your CONTENTdm site and paste its URL into the CONTENTdm URL field on FromThePage's Start a Project screen.

Copy the URL of the compound object.

User view of compound object.

Paste the URL into the Start a Project CONTENTdm field.

Compound object URL pasted into FromThePage CONTENTdm import.

This automatically determines the IIIF manifest for the CONTENTdm compound object and begins the import process

IIIF Import Screen

You can import images to be transcribed or images and raw OCR text from ContentDM.  For OCR correction projects, check "Import OCR text from ContentDM"

IIIF import screen for CONTENTdm with "Import OCR" checked.

The project is now ready for volunteers to transcribe, index, annotate or translate!

FromThePage view of imported documents

Relevant CONTENTdm metadata for the compound object and for each item is exposed in FromThePage's exports and APIs. In addition, OCR correction projects can push the corrected text directly to their CONTENTdm installation by entering their user credentials in a new "Export to CONTENTdm" flow.

Correcting OCR text for a page.

OCR correction projects will import the raw text directly from CONTENTdm.

Credentials for direct updates of CONTENTdm text metadata from completed OCR correction works.

Simple but Flexible

Integrating CONTENTdm and FromThePage makes it easy to run crowdsourcing projects from your existing digital collection systems, but it also opens up a world of interoperability through WebAnnotations and IIIF.  High-resolution image viewers like Mirador and the Universal Viewer can improve the user experience of your digital collections (see the Harry Ransom Center's post on their experience). FromThePage's support for IIIF means that researchers can see transcriptions, translations, notes, and other crowdsourced content alongside images and metadata.

CONTENTdm enhancements to FromThePage were funded by the Council of State Archivists led by the Alabama Department of Archives and History, and joined by the Indiana Archives and Records Administrations, the Library of Virginia, and the Missouri State Archives. These enhancements are available to all users of the open-source crowdsourcing platform, whether hosted independently or on FromThePage.com.  To learn more, contact support@fromthepage.com or sign up for a trial account.

Filed Under: FromThePage, how-to, Uncategorized Tagged With: features, iiif

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