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# CONTENTdm Reviews
**Vendor:** OCLC  
**Category:** [Digital Asset Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/digital-asset-management)  
**Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 26
## About CONTENTdm
CONTENTdm is a service used by many different types of libraries, historical societies and museums that gives you the tools to build, showcase and preserve your digital collections. With CONTENTdm, you increase the visibility of your digital collections with a website customized for your community that includes search engine optimization and the capability to share your metadata in WorldCat and other repositories where people search for information. CONTENTdm allows you to: • store items in any file format including, text, images audio and video; • add complete metadata to help searchers find your collections; • load large collections quickly with batch processing; • customize the experience for your users and your community by creating a website that aligns with your brand; • ensure secure, managed storage and monitoring for your master files and digital originals. CONTENTdm FAQ: http://www.oclc.org/contentdm/resources.en.html




## CONTENTdm Reviews
  ### 1. Often used, but not a fan

**Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2015

**What do you like best about CONTENTdm?**

(Note: This product was used for a pilot study for a digitization project.)

It uses Dublin Core metadata, not some proprietary schema.

It allows RSS, so your users can "subscribe" to your digital library and see new items as they are added.

It's a product used by a large portion of the digilib community, so it's worth learning.

**What do you dislike about CONTENTdm?**

The cost is pretty substantial for a small-scale repository, so it may simply be better to go with another option unless you are "piggy-backing" off of another institution's setup.

When we used it, we had little control over features and formatting of the collection website, which was immensely frustrating.

We also found it difficult to "group" items by collections which felt antithetical to the traditional archival model: I missed my box/folder/item levels of organization. (Plus, it makes things difficult to browse.)

I also found that the search feature could be improved upon by adding the option to refine the results from a query.

**Recommendations to others considering CONTENTdm:**

Make friends with the IT department! Also, pass on this if you have a small collection.

**What problems is CONTENTdm solving and how is that benefiting you?**

This product is used to make digital collections available to the user. This increases access, which is important, but has yet to solve many of the problems the community has identified with organizing and making available digital collections.



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## CONTENTdm Features
**Interface and Performance**
- Import/Export
- Organizational Interface
- Search
- File Preview
- Analytics

**Asset Management**
- File Types
- Metadata
- File Transformation
- Versioning
- Expiration
- Watermark
- Digital Rights Management
- Brand Guidelines

**Media Types**
- Video
- Audio
- Images

**Administration**
- Workflow Management
- User, Role, and Access Management
- Brand Portal
- Integration with Creative Software
- Integration with Marketing Software

**Agentic AI - Digital Asset Management**
- Cross-system Integration

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