Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2009, Austin, TXSlide 1 of 24 Train to Share: Statewide...

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Train to Share:Statewide Interoperability Trainingfrom the Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative

Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Ph.D., M.S.I.S.Karen L. Frizzell, M.A., M.L.S.Texas State Library & Archives Commission


Train to Share: Overview

• Funded by an IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant

• Partners:– Texas State Library

& Archives– University of North Texas– Amigos Library Services


Train to Share: Intention

• To address the need for quality, shareable metadata for digitized special collections


Train to Share: Audience

• Metadata specialists working in libraries, archives, museums, and state and local government agencies across Texas


Train to Share: Outcomes

• Educate metadata specialists• Create new and sustainable

partnerships• Improve the quality and

consistency of metadata for Texas digital collections

• Improve access to rare and unique materials


Train to Share: Need

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Technical and quality standardsWeb markup languages

Database development and management systemsWeb design skills

The needs of users

Digital archiving and preservationCataloging, Metadata

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Collection development

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Choi, Youngok, and Edie Rasmussen. "What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries." D-Lib Magazine 12 (2006). <http://dlib.org/dlib/september06/choi/09choi.html>.


Train to Share: Educate

• Courses based on the Library of Congress’s “Digital Library Environment” workshop serieshttp://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/index.html

– Courses originally developed by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services

– Originally called the “Cataloging for the 21st Century” workshop series

http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/index.html

http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/index.html



• Digital Project Management Basics– Project Management

• Online tools• Role and task definition

– Financial Control• Budgeting • Contracting

– Legal issues• Copyright



• Digital Library Systems and Applications– Overview of available systems

• Hosted and local systems• Metadata constraints

– Developing workflows• Quality Assurance

– Technical Issues• Indexing• Interoperability• Migration and Preservation



• Basics of Metadata Production– Content Standards

• AACR2R• CCO• DACS

– Encoding Syntaxes• Dublin Core• MARC

– Encoding Formats• XML

– Metadata Crosswalks



• Controlled Vocabulary & Thesaurus Design– Review of available vocabularies

• Library of Congress• Getty Vocabularies

– Local controlled vocabularies• Using linked data• Using namespaces

– Uncontrolled vocabularies• Tagging and keywords



• Advanced Topics in Metadata Production– Additional encoding syntaxes:

• MODS, MADS• METS• EAD, EAC• TEI

– Special topics:• Cataloging electronic resources (MARC)• Geographic Information Systems



• Courses offered byAmigos Library Services– Adjunct instructors

wanted!

• 5 locations across state

• 2 online offerings for each course


Train to Share: Partnerships

• 10 collaborative, multi-institution projects established across state

• Funding for training, staff release

• Projects focus on region, theme, or specific need



• Partners:– University of Texas at Brownsville/

Texas Southmost College– Casamata Museum and Archives,

Matamoros, Mexico– Palo Duro Historic Battlefield

• Project:– The Mexican-American War in

Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Tamaulipas



• Partners:– Taylor Public Library– TxDOT Travel Information

Division Photo Library – Williamson Museum

• Project:– Travel and Tourism in

Williamson County



• Partners:– Panhandle Plains Museum– Amarillo Public Library– Cornette Library,

West Texas A&M

• Project:– History and Heritage in the

Texas Panhandle Region



• Partners:– University of Texas at El Paso– El Paso Public Library– El Paso Historical Society

• Project:– Commemorating the

centennial of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920



• Partners:– Fondren Library

Special Collections,Rice University

– Museum of Houston– Houston Yacht Club

• Project:– Houston Waterways and

the Port of Houston


Train to Share: Sharing

• Each project will provide metadata for 1,000 digital objects

• Variety of Digital Asset Management Systems– Interoperability requirement:

• OAI-PMH and/or Z39.50 or SRU• Internet search engines (Google, Yahoo!)

– Hosting at the Portal to Texas History as option

• Objects will be accessible through Texas Heritage Online


Train to Share: Sharing


Contact Us

Texas Heritage Online http://www.texasheritageonline.org

Danielle Cunniff PlumerTHDI CoordinatorTexas State Library & Archives [email protected]

Karen L. FrizzellTHDI Training & Outreach CoordinatorTexas State Library & Archives [email protected]

http://www.texasheritageonline.org/


Image Credits

1. [Steam locomotive]. Texas State Railroad press kit, 1978-79. Texas Parks & Wildlife Records, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

2. Sam Houston's Inaugural Address. Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.3. The Texas Knights of Columbus Historical Commission at St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas,

1926. Catholic Archives of Texas, Austin.4. Oil near Ranger going over the top, circa 1917. W.D. Hornaday Collection, Prints and Photographs

Collection, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. 5. North entrance, detail. #303, Blanco County Courthouse, Blanco, Texas, [1885?]. Works of F.E.

Ruffini, 1961/001-65. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

6. Mission Control Celebrates. Johnson Space Center Image #S70-35144. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

7. [Oliver typewriter that has octagonal white keys.] 1912. From the collections of the Fort Bend County Museum, Richmond, Texas. Available on the Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas .

8. Independence of Texas, 1837. Americas Original Documents, MS Number:518 (Box 3, Folder 14, Item 52.02). Our Americas Archive Partnership, Rice University.

9. Hymenoptera texana (1872). Biodiversity Heritage Library. Available at the Internet Archive's Text Archive.

10. Texas [1855]. Publisher: Colton (J.H.) and Company, New York, [1855]. Texas State Archives Map Number 0039. Texas State Library and Archives Commission.


Image Credits

11. Texas Rangers; taken at Railroad Station in Ft. Worth, Texas during a railroad strike in April, 1886. ETRC Photograph Collection. Texas Tides, Stephen F. Austin State University.

12. Scenes from the Battle of Palo Alto that took place on 8th May 1846. University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College Arnulfo L. Oliveira Memorial Library.

13. Southwestern Reunion Auto Rally. Georgetown Heritage Society Historic Photographs Collection, Georgetown Public Library.

14. Bartlett -Western train. Bartlett Activities Center and the Williamson County Historical Commission.

15. Aerial View of Amarillo, Texas. PA-533. Amarillo Public Library. 16. [Figure of cowboy with lasso]. Panhandle Plains Historical Museum. 17. T-Club Sweater. West Texas A&M University Archives. 18. Ciudad Juárez, Soldier, c1900. Mexican Revolution Photograph Collection, PH015-1-1-013. The

C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department - University of Texas at El Paso Library. 19. Mexican Revolution - Rebels lying in wait. Aultman Collection, A0834. El Paso Public Library. 20. First home of the Houston Yacht Club - Allen's Landing at the foot of Main Street, circa 1900.

Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library. 21. Front cover, [is part of] Port of Houston. From the George Fuermann Texas and Houston

Collection. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries.22. “Mrs. Angelina Eberly firing off a cannon,” Prints and Photographs Collection, Texas State Library

and Archives Commission.

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