Four day course 2006

Four day course 2006

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UNESCO IITE Specialized Training Programme
Digital Libraries in Education

(Training Session in Bangkok, Thailand, 21 – 24 February 2006)

The content of this course is similar to the 2005 Fiji course, although the material was presented in a slightly different order.

Day 1 (Tuesday February, 21st)

Introduction

  • 8:00 – 8:30Registration of participants
  • 8:30 – 8:45Welcome speeches from UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education and UNESCO IITE
  • Mr. Sheldon Shaeffer

    Director, UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education

  • Mr. Clive Wing,

    Chief of Information and Knowledge Management, UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education

  • Mr. Azat Khannanov

    Deputy Team Leader for the UNESCO CCT project “Methodologies for Digital Libraries”, UNESCO IITE

  • 8:45 – 9:00 Presentation of UNESCO Cross-Cutting Project “Methodologies for Digital Libraries”
  • Mr. Azat Khannanov

    Deputy Team Leader for the UNESCO CCT project “Methodologies for Digital Libraries”, UNESCO IITE

  • 9:00 – 9:15 About UNESCO IITE’s Specialized Training Programme: introduction and general logistics
  • Dr. Marina Moiseeva

    Coordinator of UNESCO IITE’s Educational Programme

  • 9:15 – 9:30Meet the trainers: University of Waikato and Greenstone International Initiative
  • Dr. David Bainbridge

    Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato

  • Dr David M. Nichols

    Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato

Module 1: The Concept of Digital Libraries

  • 9:30 – 10:15Introduction to the course
  • 10:15 – 10:30Coffee-break
  • 10:30 – 11:15Installation & Exploration of Existing Collections
  • 11:15 – 11:45Case Studies: DLESE & NLVM, presentation
  • 11:45 – 12:00Unit 1.1: Assignment 1: discussion
  • 12:00 – 13:00Lunch

Module 2: Document Representation

  • 13:00 – 13:30Summary of Common Document Formats: presentation
  • 13:30 – 14:30Installation of Greenstone, building simple HTML collection
  • 14:30 – 15:00Unit 2.1: Assignment 1: discussion
  • 15:00 – 15:15Coffee-break
  • 15:15 – 15:45Overview of the Librarian Interface
  • 15:45 – 17:00Building Word & PDF Collection


Day 2 (Wednesday February, 22nd)

Module 3: Working with Metadata

  • 8:00 – 8:30Markup & Metadata: presentation
  • 8:30: – 9:30Building Tudor Collection
  • 9:30 – 10:0Unit 3.1: Assignment 1: Organization and Access Mechanisms: discussion
  • 10:00 – 10:15Coffee-break
  • 10:15 – 10:45Export to CD-ROM, Web links, Downloading source material
  • 10:45 – 11:45Enhancing the Tudor Collection
  • 11:45 – 12:00The Reality of the Web: Google survey results presentation
  • 12:00 – 13:00Lunch

Module 3 – continued

  • 13:00 – 13:30Image Formats: discussion.
  • 13:30 – 14:00Image Collection
  • 14:00 – 14:30MARC: presentation
  • 14:30 – 15:00Bibliographic Collection: MARC
  • 15:00 – 15:15Coffee-break
  • 15:15 – 15:45Format statements and macro files: a walk through
  • 15:45 – 16:15LOM & SCORM: presentation and demonstration
  • 16:15 – 17:00Educational Metadata: LOM and SCORM


Day 3 (Thursday February, 23rd)

Module 4: Multimedia Digital Libraries

  • 8:00 – 8:30Video Formats: presentation. Hauraki Video Collection demonstration
  • 8:30 – 9:30Advanced Beatles: “Look at what can be done!”, A Basic Collection
  • 9:30 – 10:00Unit 4.1: Assignment 1: Multimedia in Education: discussion
  • 10:00 – 10:15Coffee-break
  • 10:15 – 11:15Advanced Beatles: Hand correcting metadata Simple Customization
  • 11:15 – 12:00Advanced Beatles: Advanced Customization Expert Customization Fancy Customization
  • 12:00 – 13:00Lunch

Module 5: Open Standards & Case Studies

  • 13:00 – 13:45Open Standards & Interoperability: MODS and METS, presentation
  • 13:45 – 15:00Exporting as METS; From DSpace to Greenstone; From Greenstone to DSpace
  • 15:00 – 15:15Coffee-break
  • 15:15 – 15:45Open Archives Initiative: presentation
  • 15:45 – 17:00OAI Collection; Download OAI. Scanned Image Collection. Niupepa Collection: demonstration. Improved Image Collection


Day 4 (Friday February, 24th)

  • 8:00 – 8:30Case Studies: MERLOT & Doomsday, presentation
  • 8:30 – 10:00Personal Collections
  • 10:00 – 10:15Coffee-break
  • 10:15 – 11:15Personal Collections
  • 11:15 – 11:45Summary: presentation
  • 11:45 – 12:45Lunch
  • 12:45 – 14:00Training on using UNESCO IITE’s Distance Education Platform
  • 14:00 – 14:30Objectives and plans for follow-up distance learning session
  • 14:30 – 15:00Closing discussion