Bulk uploading CONTENTdm images & metadata into Flickr Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group 4th Annual Meeting March 18-20,

1. Bulk uploading CONTENTdm images & metadata into Flickr Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group 4th Annual Meeting March 18-20, 2009 Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Elías Tzoc Digital Initiatives Librarian

2. ::: overview ::: 1. Background Flickr API & Uploading Process CONTENTdm metadata 4.Customizing the Flickr interface 5. Results 6. Sample Upload 7. Questions

3. ::: background ::: “Our goal is to preserve and provide easy access to the Miami University Libraries' unique and special collections to support student and faculty research both at Miami University and elsewhere”

4. ::: background ::: findability Why?

5. ::: background :::

6. ::: background ::: Benefits of Flickr 1. Findability 2. Personal Interaction with Users 3. Contributing to global store of knowledge 4. Dynamic interactivity

7. ::: background ::: Extending and complimenting our CONTENTdm CONTENTdm via

8. ::: background ::: Manually add metadata for each image Manually upload thousands of images

9. ::: background ::: share share-alike

10. ::: FLICKR API::: What You Need to Know and Basic Setup API = Application Programming Interface (What?) Obtain API Key (http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.api_keys.html)

11. ::: FLICKR API::: WWW Server with PHP PHP upload and authorization scripts PHP libraries contentdm directory files.xml Download and Extract flickr_uploader.tar contentdm/

12. ::: FLICKR API::: Insert API Key and Secret into line 11 Insert API Key and Secret into lines 9 & 10 upload.php auth.php ✔ Create XML file of contentdm metadata saved as files.xml files.xml upload.php

13. ::: CONTENTdm metadata ::: flickr XML format <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <collection> <record> <title>image title</title> <description>subject (TGM), and RUL</description> <tags>subject (TGM)</tags> <file>filename</file> </record> </collection>

14. ::: CONTENTdm metadata ::: Exporting metadata <!-- Version 4.3 --> PROs CONs web-interface desc.all OAI

15. ::: CONTENTdm metadata ::: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <contentdm> <record> <title>Spectators at Miami-Ohio Wesleyan football game 1921</title> <description>Football; Sports spectators; Sports; Universities and colleges; URL: http://digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/snyder,0</description> <tags>Football; Sports spectators; Sports; Universities and colleges;</tags> <file>6994751412005_20634.jpg</file> </record> </contentdm>

16. ::: flickr interface ::: Create sets & collections Edit batches at once: add tags to all images Dynamic and embeddable slideshows Each image has comments and notes enabled Users can fave an item, blog an item, download different sizes of the image and order prints. All tags are hyperlinked; increases the dynamic nature of collection.

17. ::: results ::: February December January • + 300 views / day (average) • Referrers • global views/comments/favorites

18. resources http://beta.lib.muohio.edu/~jpmichel/flickr_test/flickr_uploader.tar http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/~tzocea/files/flickr/

19. questions?