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Media Asset Management Software Version 3.0 from the University of Washington

At ALA Midwinter in January the University of Washington's University Libraries Digital Initiatives Program demonstrated version 3.0 of Content, the media asset management software developed by the Center for Information Systems Optimization (CISO) in the Department of Electrical Engineering. The software was used to mount "American Indians of the Pacific Northwest' on the Library of Congress's American Memory site.

Content provides tools for organizing, cataloging, indexing, displaying, and managing graphical collections. It can

The software is scalable from a few hundred items to databases with millions of objects. The Dublin Core Metadata element set is used to create basic object cataloging providing a flexible template customized for each collection. Collection-specific fields a remapped to Dublin Core. Content uses a text-based search engine optimized to handle multimedia. It allows searching across user-defined fields. Searches can be performed on a single field or multiple fields in a collection and across multiple collections on a Content server,

Among Version 3.0's new features:

CISO - University of Washington: phone, 206-543-5604; fax, 206-543-3483;

e-mail, content@ciso.engr.washington.edu;

Web, content.engr.washington.edu.


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