Train to Share: THDIs Plan for Interoperability Training

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Train to Share THDIs Plan for Interoperability
Training

• Danielle Cunniff Plumer
• Texas State Library and Archives Commission
• THDI Annual Meeting, February 13, 2009

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Agenda

• The THDI at 6
• Active Grants
• Connecting to Collections
• Train to Share
• Other Activities
• Participation
• Contacts Credits

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THDI Vision

• To offer unified online access to the cultural
  heritage resources held by Texas institutions

Putting Texas Heritage Online
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THDI History

• 2004
• Organization
• 2005
• Strategic Plan
• 2006
• Statewide Search
• 2007
• Standards
• 2008
• Collections
• 2009
• Training

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Participants

• Archives
• Libraries
• Academic
• Public
• Special
• Museums
• State and Local Government Agencies

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Audiences

• Teachers and school-aged children
• TEKS social studies requirement
• Researchers
• College students
• Historians
• Genealogists
• General public

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Connecting to Collections

• Partners
• Texas State Library and Archives Commission
• Texas Historical Commission
• Amigos Library Services
• Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the
  Cultural RecordUT Austin School of Information
• Texas Association of Museums
• Texas Library Association

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Texas Collections Survey

• Pilot 2009 200 institutions
• Administered byAmigos Library Services
• Information aboutnature and needs ofcollections
  in Texasinstitutions
• Full survey 2010?

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C2C at TAM

• Connecting to Collections Collaborative
  Conservation
• Texas Association of Museums Annual Meeting
• March 17, 2009, El Paso, TX
• Cost 65
• http//sites.google.com/site/texasctc/events/tam-2
  009

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C2C at TLA

• Connecting to Collections Constructing the
  Future
• Texas Library Association Conference
• March 31, 2009, Houston, TX
• Cost 65
• http//sites.google.com/site/texasctc/events/tla-2
  009

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Train to Share

• IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant
• Awarded 2008
• Partners
• Texas State Library Archives
• University of North Texas
• Amigos Library Services

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Train to Share Goals

• Project goals
• Increased quality and consistency of metadata
• Improved access to rare and unique materials
• New and sustainable partnerships vital to the
  ongoing development of digital projects across
  the state.

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Train to Share Courses

• Based on Library of Congress Digital Library
  Environment Series
• Digital Project Planning Management Basics
• Metadata and Digital Library Development
• Metadata Standards and Applications
• Principles of Controlled Vocabulary and Thesaurus
  Design
• Rules and Tools for Cataloging Internet Resources
  
• Additional online courses and materials

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Train to Share Locations
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Train to Share Projects

• 10 collaborative projects formed by institutions
  across the state
• Each project includes at least one library and
  one museum

• Projects receive
• 3,000 per year
• Free training for 3 staff per project
• Technical assistance

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Strategic Plan

• Structure of Steering Committee
• Long-term sustainability of initiative

New for 2010 THDI Program Committee Judith
Hiott, HALAN, chair Annual Meeting tentatively
scheduled for February 12, 2010, Austin, TX
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Standards Update

• Digitization
• Metadata
• Controlledvocabulary
• Interoperability
• Preservation
• Best (and Worst!) Practices

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Participation

• THDI Work Groups
• Collections
• Standards
• Training
• Users
• Program
• Other Events
• Texas Library Association
• Texas Association of Museums
• Society of Southwest Archivists
• Texas Conference on Digital Libraries

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Contacts

• Texas Heritage Onlinehttp//www.texasheritageonli
  ne.org
• Danielle Cunniff Plumer, CoordinatorTexas
  Heritage Digitization InitiativeTexas State
  Library and Archives CommissionPO Box 12927,
  Austin, TX 78711512-463-5852
  dplumer_at_tsl.state.tx.us
• Cathy Hartman, ChairTHDI Steering
  CommitteeUniversity of North Texas
  Libraries1155 Union Circle 305190, Denton , TX
  76203-5017 940-565-3269 cathy.hartman_at_unt.edu

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Image Credits

• Texas Declaration of Independence, Prints and
  Photographs Collection, Texas State Library and
  Archives Commission.
• Toy John Deere wagon. From the collections of the
  George Ranch Historical Park, Richmond, Texas.
  Available on the Portal to Texas History,
  University of North Texas
• The Texas Knights of Columbus Historical
  Commission at St. Edward's University, Austin,
  Texas, 1926. Catholic Archives of Texas, Austin.
• Boy in a charro costume, Casasola Studio
  Photographs, PH041-01-00007, Special Collections
  Department, University of Texas at El Paso
  Library.
• Correct Map of Texas. St. Louis Woodward,
  Tiernan Hale, 1878. Courtesy of Special
  Collections, University of Texas at Arlington.
• Oil near Ranger going over the top, circa 1917.
  W.D. Hornaday Collection, Prints and Photographs
  Collection, Texas State Library and Archives
  Commission.
• Famers on wagon. Mrs. Robert Watrous Photographs,
  Prints and Photographs Collection, Archives and
  Information Services Division, Texas State
  Library and Archives Commission. 1972/87-6.
• Needle point picture of a map of Austin's Old 300
  Colony. From the collections of the Fort Bend
  County Museum, Richmond, Texas. Available on the
  Portal to Texas History, University of North
  Texas

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Image Credits

• Steam locomotive. Texas State Railroad press
  kit, 1978-79. Texas Parks Wildlife Records,
  Archives and Information Services Division, Texas
  State Library and Archives Commission.
• Launch of the USS Houston (CA-30), Newport News,
  Virginia, September 7, 1929. Cruiser Houston
  Collection. Courtesy of Special Collections,
  University of Houston Libraries.
• Texas 1855. Publisher Colton (J.H.) and
  Company, New York, 1855. Texas State Archives
  Map Number 0039. Texas State Library and Archives
  Commission.
• Mrs. Angelina Eberly firing off a cannon,
  Prints and Photographs Collection, Texas State
  Library and Archives Commission.
• Sam Houston's Inaugural Address. Center for
  American History, The University of Texas at
  Austin.
• 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.
• Jim, Joe, and Lillian Goin. About 1910. From the
  private collection of Bouncer Goin, Aubrey,
  Texas. Available on the Portal to Texas History,
  University of North Texas.