THDI Annual 20070223

Bringing Texas History and Culture to the Desktop: 

Bringing Texas History and Culture to the Desktop Danielle Cunniff Plumer Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Agenda: 

Agenda Background Search Basics Standards Digitization Metadata Vocabulary Interoperability Participation Contacts Credits

Statewide Digitization: 

Statewide Digitization Exemplars: American Memory (LoC) Making of America Colorado Digitization Program Components: Multiple Institutions Libraries Archives Museums? Multiple Formats Images Documents Oral Histories

Digitization in Texas: 

Digitization in Texas Existing Projects: Texas Archival Resources Online Portal to Texas History Texas Beyond History Texas Tides Texas Historic Sites Atlas Funding Sources: TexTreasures Texas Infrastructure Fund Regional/Local Foundations

Google: Sam Houston: 

Google: Sam Houston

Sam Houston: 

Sam Houston

THDI Vision: 

THDI Vision To offer unified online access to cultural heritage resources held by Texas institutions

Participants: 

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

Partnerships: 

Partnerships Collaboration Funding Digitization Hosting Sample Partnerships: Portal to Texas History Texas Tides Museum of Houston

Audiences: 

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

THDI IMLS Grant: 

THDI IMLS Grant Purposes: To enhance interoperability among disparate collections of digital assets To provide seamless access to digital assets through a federated search engine To demonstrate the feasibility of using open source software in support of international standards

Search Basics: 

Search Basics Single Repository One vs. many data entry points Harvested Content Multiple repositories contributing metadata to a central site OAI-PMH Federated Search Multiple repositories with a single search interface Z39.50

Web Search: 

Web Search

Metasearch: 

Metasearch Protocol: OAI-PMH

Federated Search: 

Federated Search 2 Protocols: Z39.50 SRU/SRW

THDI Architecture: 

THDI Architecture Build indexes OAI Harvest Query Z39.50/SRU

THDI Strategy: 

THDI Strategy Develop Standards Develop Interface Develop Search Targets Usability Testing Repeat

Technical Specifications: 

Technical Specifications Full support for Z39.50 SRW/U “bonus” Metadata normalization Dublin Core MARC Support for thumbnail images Open Source Standards-Compliant Including Accessibility

Product Details: 

Product Details Vendor: Index Data Product: Keystone DLS (TKL) Also used in Library of Texas Portal to Texas History Features: Content Management System Digital Asset Management System Metadata Harvester Link Resolver Federated Search

Texas Heritage Online: 

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

Standards: 

Standards Digitization Metadata Controlled vocabulary Interoperability Preservation

Digitization: 

Minimum requirement: Must have digital objects Images (photos, documents) Texts (EAD, TEI, HTML) Audio, video Standards and Best Practices: Keep one uncompressed, high-resolution, copy Use thumbnails & lower-resolution derivatives for access Recommend Use of Digital Asset Management Systems Digitization

DAMS: 

DAMS Components: Workflow/ Process Management File Management Metadata Management Rights Management Access Management

Sample DAMS: 

Sample DAMS Custom database Microsoft Access FileMaker Pro Library Catalog Endeavor: Curator SirsiDynix: Hyperion III: Millennium MetaSource Stand-alone application Greenstone CONTENTdm DSpace

Metadata: 

Metadata “Data about data” Any information added to object Structured data most useful Standards and Best Practices Dublin Core (OAI) EAD, TEI MARC/MODS METS CDWA-Lite

Controlled Vocabulary: 

Controlled Vocabulary Getty Vocabularies Art & Architecture Thesaurus Union List of Artist Names Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Chenhall's Revised Nomenclature Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials LC Subject Headings & Authorities

Interoperability: 

Interoperability A system’s ability to interact with other systems Protocols and profiles Aspect of DAMS Standards and Best Practices Metadata harvesting (OAI) Metasearch (Z39.50, SRU)

Participation: 

Participation THDI Work Groups Funding Resources Standards Training Users THDI Annual Meeting Interest/Affinity Groups Texas Library Association Texas Association of Museums Society of Southwest Archivists

THDI Collections Survey: 

THDI Collections Survey Survey Monkey See THDI “News” on www.thdi.org Institution Information Collection Information Title URL / Repository Description Browse Categories Format / Date Ranges / Topics

Contacts: 

Contacts Texas Heritage Online http://www.thdi.org Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative Texas State Library and Archives Commission PO Box 12927, Austin, TX 78711 512-463-5852 | dplumer@tsl.state.tx.us Houston McGaugh, Chair THDI Steering Committee Star of the Republic Museum P. O. Box 317, Washington, TX 77880 936-878-2461 | hmcgaugh@blinn.edu

Image Credits: 

Image Credits Texas Declaration of Independence, Prints and Photographs Collection, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Sam Houston Collage Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. “Houston, Samuel." http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/HH/fho73.html (accessed November 4, 2006). Daguerrotype of Sam Houston in white duster coat, c. 1859. Prints and Photographs Collection, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Bruce, Henry. Life of General Houston, 1793-1863. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1891. Available on the Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas. Sam Houston’s title to land in Nacodoches County, 05 May 1835. Texas General Land Office patent no. 315, vol. 18. Sam Houston’s jaguar-skin vest. Sam Houston Memorial Museum Collection, Texas Tides, Stephen F. Austin State University. Sam Houston's Inaugural Address. Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. The Texas Knights of Columbus Historical Commission at St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas, 1926. Catholic Archives of Texas, Austin. Texas Normal School for Negroes, Junior Class. Probably taken at Prairie View Normal Institute (now Prairie View A&M University), date unknown. Prints and Photographs Collection, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. 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. 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

Image Credits: 

Image Credits [Lida Senkel in chicken yard]. Fort Bend Museum Collection. Available on the Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas. “Mrs. Angelina Eberly firing off a cannon,” Prints and Photographs Collection, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. 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. Oil near Ranger going over the top, circa 1917. W.D. Hornaday Collection, Prints and Photographs Collection, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Caddo Pottery, Courtesy Texas Beyond History, The University of Texas at Austin. Available at http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/tejas/clay/galleries/index.html 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. Launch of the USS Houston (CA-30), Newport News, Virginia, September 7, 1929. Cruiser Houston Collection. Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. 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 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.