Bringing Texas History and Culture to the Desktop

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Bringing Texas History and Culture to the Desktop

• Danielle Cunniff Plumer
• Texas State Library and Archives Commission

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Agenda

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

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Statewide Digitization

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

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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

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Google Sam Houston
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Sam Houston
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THDI Vision

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

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Participants

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

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Partnerships

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

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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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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

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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

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Web Search
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Metasearch
Protocol OAI-PMH
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Federated Search
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Protocols Z39.50 SRU/SRW
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THDI Architecture

• Build indexes
• OAI Harvest
• Query Z39.50/SRU

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THDI Strategy

• Develop Standards
• Develop Interface
• Develop Search Targets
• Usability Testing
• Repeat

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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

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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

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Texas Heritage Online

• http//www.thdi.org

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Standards

• Digitization
• Metadata
• Controlledvocabulary
• Interoperability
• Preservation

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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

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DAMS

• Components
• Workflow/Process Management
• File Management
• Metadata Management
• Rights Management
• Access Management

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Sample DAMS

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

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Metadata

• Data about data
• Any information added to object
• Structured datamost useful
• Standards andBest Practices
• Dublin Core (OAI)
• EAD, TEI
• MARC/MODS
• METS
• CDWA-Lite

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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

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Interoperability

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

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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

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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

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Contacts

• Texas Heritage Onlinehttp//www.thdi.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
• Houston McGaugh, ChairTHDI Steering
  CommitteeStar of the Republic MuseumP. O. Box
  317, Washington, TX 77880936-878-2461
  hmcgaugh_at_blinn.edu

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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/article
  s/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 Houstons title to land in Nacodoches County,
  05 May 1835. Texas General Land Office patent no.
  315, vol. 18.
• Sam Houstons 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 AM 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

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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/galle
  ries/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.