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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Angela,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thank you for your reply. You confirmed what I thought but I wanted to make sure before making a decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#1F497D">Francis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Angela Kroeger<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 16, 2014 6:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace and OCLC's CONTENTdm<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Francis asked, "What is the difference between ArchivesSpace and OCLC’s CONTENTdm?"</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I'm a new user of ArchivesSpace, and my use of CONTENTdm is limited to having created about 15 records, so I may not be the best person to answer this. But here goes .
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I think they are very different tools and I would use them for different jobs. Depending on what your institution wants to do, you might actually need both.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ArchivesSpace is designed to handle hierarchical relationships, so it is very good for showing a collection with series, subseries, boxes, folders, and individual items
all described to whatever level of detail is needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">CONTENTdm seems to have a very flat structure to me. It might be difficult (maybe not impossible) to show the hierarchical relationships between the different pieces of
a compound object.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ArchivesSpace follows EAD metadata structure and DACS content rules. CONTENTdm follows Dublin Core metadata structure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For archival finding aids, I would want to use ArchivesSpace, and I wouldn't even consider CONTENTdm. ArchivesSpace is great for finding aids describing organizational
records, personal papers, and similar mixed collections, especially if these collections have not yet been fully digitized. ArchivesSpace can also track accessions, events, preservation actions and other "staff side" things. To my knowledge, CONTENTdm can't
really do that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">But if I wanted to create a digital library of images without any particular hierarchy, then CONTENTdm might be a good choice. If I wanted to be able to include my digital
library within a larger digital library like DPLA or some other regional federated digital library, then I would definitely choose CONTENTdm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">tl;dr version: ArchivesSpace for finding aids, but CONTENTdm for digital libraries of images.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Keep in mind my limited experience with these two tools. I hope others jump in with better answers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Angela Kroeger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="mailto:akroeger@unomaha.edu">akroeger@unomaha.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Archives and Special Collections Associate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University of Nebraska at Omaha<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(402) 554-4159<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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