ContentDm.com
Title
CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software by DiMeMa, Inc.
Description
CONTENTdm team
The CONTENTdm staff includes a group of senior-level programmers and user interface and web designers who have been working in the fields of digital asset management and image and web technologies for over ten years. Led by Greg Zick, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, this team began its efforts at the Center for Information Systems Optimization (CISO) at the University. DiMeMa (Digital Media Management) Inc. was formed in early 2001 to support the growing CONTENTdm user community and to focus on accelerated research and product development.
Professor Zick's research group has a long record of accomplishment in developing and implementing innovative technologies. They began working on inter-organization resource sharing in the mid-80s with funding from a large multinational corporation. This led to cutting-edge software offerings that took advantage of the emerging Internet and also resulted in a pioneering site on the World Wide Web. The research focus evolved to the storing and sharing of more complex media types and digital objects. Secure servers were also investigated and implemented as well as the associated eCommerce applications. This led to the development of the sophisticated technology required for the sharing of media collections on the Web, as implemented in CONTENTdm.
Background
While conducting research into optimal digital image database technologies, the CISO Lab began collaborating with the University of Washington Libraries. The special collections of the Libraries were stored in a multitude of forms and formats, and demand was building to provide flexible online access to these resources. The Libraries began to use the CISO Lab software for fast, full-featured access and management of the collections. The Libraries now have more than 75 collections with 90,000 media items either online or in development under CONTENTdm.
Contact
- DiMeMa
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- Seattle WA
- US 98119
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- 100
