Train to Share:
Statewide Interoperability Training
from 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
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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
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Train to Share: Intention
• To address the need
for quality, shareable
metadata for
digitized special
collections
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Train to Share: Audience
• Metadata specialists
working in libraries,
archives, museums,
and state and local
government agencies
across Texas
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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
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Train to Share: Need
2005 THDI Training Survey
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70%
Advanced
Intermediate
Beginner
Not interested
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Programming
languages
XML
HTML
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Copyright
Metadata
Preservation
Scanning
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Management
Skills
Teaching and group presentation skills
Grant/proposal writing skills
Legal issues
Project management/leadership skills
Communication and interpersonal skills
“Librarian”
Skills
Collection development
Indexing
Cataloging, Metadata
Digital archiving and preservation
The needs of users
Technical
Skills
Train to Share: Need
Web design skills
Database development and management systems
Web markup languages
Technical and quality standards
DL architecture and software
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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>.
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Train to Share: Educate
• Courses based on the Library of
Congress’s “Digital Library Environment”
workshop series
http://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
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Train to Share: Educate
• Digital Project Management Basics
– Project Management
• Online tools
• Role and task definition
– Financial Control
• Budgeting
• Contracting
– Legal issues
• Copyright
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Train to Share: Educate
• 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
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Train to Share: Educate
• Basics of Metadata Production
– Content Standards
• AACR2R
• CCO
• DACS
– Encoding Syntaxes
• Dublin Core
• MARC
– Encoding Formats
• XML
– Metadata Crosswalks
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Train to Share: Educate
• 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
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Train to Share: Educate
• Advanced Topics in Metadata Production
– Additional encoding syntaxes:
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MODS, MADS
METS
EAD, EAC
TEI
– Special topics:
• Cataloging electronic resources (MARC)
• Geographic Information Systems
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Train to Share: Educate
• Courses offered by
Amigos Library
Services
– Adjunct instructors
wanted!
• 5 locations
across state
• 2 online offerings
for each course
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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
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Train to Share: Partnerships
• Partners:
– University of Texas at Brownsville/
Texas Southmost College
– Casamata Museum and Archives,
Matamoros, Mexico
– Palo Alto Historic Battlefield
• Project:
– The Mexican-American War in
Brownsville, Texas
and Matamoros, Tamaulipas
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Train to Share: Partnerships
• Partners:
– Taylor Public Library
– TxDOT Travel Information
Division Photo Library
– Williamson Museum
• Project:
– Travel and Tourism in
Williamson County
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Train to Share: Partnerships
• Partners:
– Panhandle Plains Museum
– Amarillo Public Library
– Cornette Library,
West Texas A&M
• Project:
– History and Heritage in the
Texas Panhandle Region
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Train to Share: Partnerships
• 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
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Train to Share: Partnerships
• Partners:
– Fondren Library
Special Collections,
Rice University
– Museum of Houston
– Houston Yacht Club
• Project:
– Houston Waterways and
the Port of Houston
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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
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Train to Share: Sharing
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Contact Us
Texas Heritage Online
http://www.texasheritageonline.org
Danielle Cunniff Plumer
THDI Coordinator
Texas State Library & Archives
dplumer@tsl.state.tx.us
Karen L. Frizzell
THDI Training & Outreach Coordinator
Texas State Library & Archives
kfrizzell@tsl.state.tx.us
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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.
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Texas Rangers; taken at Railroad Station in Ft. Worth, Texas during a railroad strike in
April, 1886. ETRC Photograph Collection. TIDES, Stephen F. Austin State University.
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.
Southwestern Reunion Auto Rally. Georgetown Heritage Society Historic Photographs
Collection, Georgetown Public Library.
Bartlett -Western train. Bartlett Activities Center and the Williamson County Historical
Commission.
Aerial View of Amarillo, Texas. PA-533. Amarillo Public Library.
[Figure of cowboy with lasso]. Panhandle Plains Historical Museum.
T-Club Sweater. West Texas A&M University Archives.
Ciudad Juárez, Soldier, c1900. Mexican Revolution Photograph Collection, PH015-1-1013. The C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department - University of Texas at El
Paso Library.
Mexican Revolution - Rebels lying in wait. Aultman Collection, A0834. El Paso Public
Library.
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.
Front cover, [is part of] Port of Houston. From the George Fuermann Texas and Houston
Collection. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries.
“Mrs. Angelina Eberly firing off a cannon,” Prints and Photographs Collection, Texas
State Library and Archives Commission.
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