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Train to Share a Training Opportunity With the
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative

• Karen L. Frizzell
• Texas State Library Archives Commission

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Agenda

• About Train to Share a statewide training
  program and collaborative digitization project
  managed by the Texas State Library Archives
  Commission with its strategic partners, the
  University of North Texas and Amigos Library
  Services
• Project goals and planned outcomes
• Opportunities for involvement
• Contacts and credits

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Train to Share Overview

• Train to Share is an IMLS grant-funded
  training program affiliated with the Texas
  Heritage Digitization Initiative, which aims to
  offer unified online access to unique cultural
  heritage materials held by Texas institutions

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Train to Share

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

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THO Search Result
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Train to Share

• The intention of this three-year project, Train
  to Share, is to address the need for quality,
  shareable metadata for digitized special
  collections
• The audience for this training opportunity is
  mainly metadata specialists working in libraries,
  archives, museums, and state and local government
  agencies across Texas

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Train to Share

• Participants will digitize 1000 objects over a
  three year period, working with TSLAC and our
  strategic partners Amigos Library Services for
  training and the University of North Texas to
  share their digital objects through a federated
  search portal

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Sample Collection Items
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Intended Outcomes

• Train to Share aims to
• improve the quality and consistency of metadata
• educate metadata specialists
• create new and sustainable partnerships vital to
  the ongoing development of digital projects
  across the state
• improve access to rare and unique materials

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Get Involved

• Participants in Train to Share are teams of
  three organizations, working together for the
  purpose of collaborative digitization.
• Teams consist of different types of cultural
  heritage organizations such as an academic
  library, a museum, public library, historical
  society, etc. and a state archive (with at least
  one library and one museum)
• Teams will design a digital project concerning a
  Texas theme or a region (ex. Mexican Revolution)

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Train to Share Projects

• Project Teams receive
• 3,000 per year in grant funds
• Free training for 3-5 staff per project
• Technical assistance

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Train to Share Courses

• Based on the Library of Congresss 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 Projects

• End result 10 collaborative and sustainable
  digital projects formed by institutions across
  the state

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Credits

• Le Soldat du Chene, An Osage Chief, Star of the
  Republic Museum Objects Collection, Star of the
  Republic Museum. Available on the Portal to Texas
  History, University of North Texas.
• Steam locomotive. Texas State Railroad press
  kit, 1978-79. Texas Parks Wildlife Records,
  Archives and Information Services Division, Texas
  State Library and Archives Commission.
• Jim Goin with unidentified woman, Aubrey Area
  Photograph Collection, Private Collection of
  Bouncer Goin. Available on the Portal to Texas
  History, University of North Texas.
• Billie Meeker and two women in back of pickup
  truck, Rescuing Texas History Collection, Clark
  Hotel Museum, chm-485_001. Available on the
  Portal to Texas History, University of North
  Texas.
• Carl Edward BockAustin Girl Scouts, 1943. Neal
  Douglass Photography Collection, ND-43-109-04.
  Available on the Portal to Texas History,
  University of North Texas.
• Washington Seymour, 1950. Neal Douglass
  Photography Collection, Austin History Center,
  Austin Public Library, ND-50-228-01. Available on
  the Portal to Texas History, University of North
  Texas.
• Indian Territory Map. Star of the Republic
  Museum Objects Collection, Star of the Republic
  Museum, 1972-14. Available on the Portal to Texas
  History, University of North Texas.
• Letter from J.W. Denver to Hiram Price, January
  30, 1883. Vore Collection, Texas History
  Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society.
  Available on the Portal to Texas History,
  University of North Texas.

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Contact Us

• Texas Heritage Online
• http//www.texasheritageonline.org
• Danielle Cunniff PlumerTHDI CoordinatorTexas
  State Library and Archives dplumer_at_tsl.state.tx.u
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• Karen L. FrizzellTHDI Training Outreach
  CoordinatorTexas State Library and Archives
  kfrizzell_at_tsl.state.tx.us